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School leaders debate proposed dress-code changes including pajama pants and mask limits

Caroline County School Board · May 12, 2026
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At a first read of five proposed student code-of-conduct changes, administrators recommended allowing pajama pants, banning masks without a doctor's note, requiring waist‑level bottoms, instituting elementary phone storage, and banning deliveries; board members raised enforcement, health, and optics concerns and asked for data and a community survey before second reading.

Jeff Wick, the district’s student‑behavior administrator, presented a first read of five proposed revisions to the student code of conduct for 2026–27, describing the items as proposals for board consideration.

"The first 1 is to permit pajama pants," Wick said, then listed four additional proposals: to prohibit masks except when a student has a doctor's note, to require pants be worn at the waist (to prevent undergarment exposure), to require PreK–5 phone cabinets similar to those used at the middle school, and to ban deliveries (DoorDash, balloons, flowers) on campus because they disrupt school operations. Wick told the…

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