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Derry Area School District board advances draft dress code into formal policy review
Summary
Board members gave a first reading to a revised district dress-and-grooming policy that tightens coverage requirements, removes measurement-based rules and sets progressive discipline; second reading is planned for March and final action in May.
Derry Area School District board members advanced a draft of a districtwide dress-and-grooming policy during a policy-committee report and first read at the regular meeting.
The proposal — identified in committee materials as proposed Policy 2.21, Dress and Grooming — would move the district’s current dress rules from the parent/student handbook into board policy and make several substantive changes. Among them: the draft explicitly says undergarments do not qualify as shirts or bottoms, requires opaque coverage of breasts, buttocks and midriff/torso, and bans most hats and head coverings indoors except for religious headwear. The draft also removes…
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