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Lakewood Schools Dress Code

Thursday, January 10, 2013

Lakewood Schools Dress Code: A Closer Look

We thought we’d share with the district's dress code in its entirety.

The number of students looking to update the Lakewood City Schools’ dress code is growing. A petition to end the “hoodie ban” launched last semester by a Lakewood High School student has more than 500 signatures. In addition, a group of Lakewood High School girls decided to organize to revisit several aspects of the dress code — including the length requirements of skirts, hair color and the no-piercings rule.  We thought we’d share with you the dress code in its entirety (check out the PDF at the right), provided by the school district. Tell us what you think about the dress in the comments.

Eric Majkut

8:10 am on Friday, January 11, 2013

Yeah but here's the thing. And there's no way any of us are going to convince you of it, you'll just have to grow up and see it for yourself the same way all the rest of us did. You're a kid and you think "being yourself" and "looking cool" and all that other crap is SOOOOO important right now. But it's not. Trust me. The grades you got, the lessons you learned and the life experience you gained …   more ›

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