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School board to revisit dress code; members seek countywide standard to bar tails and animal costume features
Summary
After a board member requested amendment to the student code of conduct to ban tails and ears, board members asked the superintendent to prepare an action item defining countywide dress-code language that removes building-level inconsistencies and addresses disruptive or revealing attire.
The Shenandoah County School Board on Oct. 27 agreed to add the student-dress-code topic to the Nov. 12 agenda and asked the superintendent to draft countywide language to clarify prohibited attire, including animal tails and ears.
School Board member Tom Street asked colleagues to consider prohibiting students from wearing animal tails and ears after reports of such apparel at recent events. "I don't see anywhere in here about ears and tails," a board member said during discussion.…
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