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Parent urges equitable dress-code rewrite after daughter dress-coded at Mason Middle School
Summary
A Mason Middle School parent asked the board to adopt a districtwide, equity-focused dress code after his seventh-grade daughter was dress-coded; he said enforcement disproportionately affects girls and cited an SCDM teacher's remark as evidence of biased thinking.
Jesse Green, a parent of three Tacoma public school students, asked the board to adopt a districtwide dress-code policy that avoids disproportionate impacts on students by race, gender and body type, recounting his daughter's experience being dress-coded at Mason Middle School.
Green said the district policy (cited in comment as "TPS policy 32 24") requires dress-code enforcement to avoid disparities but that his family experienced the opposite. He…
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