Gray’s Creek Middle School Principal Mark Pepper defends the school’s dress code policy as being fair. “She has on high-topped shoes, jeans and a hoodie, and she’s being sent home for not even a dime-sized worn spot just above the knee in her jeans. I know a boy that got out of a car this morning has blue-and-white striped underwear on because his pants are sagging. “I watched boys get out of cars with softball-sized holes up their thigh. “And how many boys are in this lobby right now? None. She says she’s seen girls lining the office walls every morning she’s dropped off her daughter, all of them cited for dress code violations. “Mom’s late for work and you’re threatening to put my straight-A student in ISS and she’s missing class time for this. The teacher pointed to what Ellis considered a worn spot, not a hole, since no skin was visible underneath it. The Gray’s Creek Middle dress code states: “Holes, cuts, and/or tears in pants/clothing are not allowed above the knee.”Įllis assumed the teacher was talking about holes in the knees of her daughter’s jeans, and she pointed out that they were not above the knee but on it. What happened next prompted Ellis to reach out to FayWHAT? for answers about school dress codes.īefore her daughter could sign in, a teacher asked Ellis if she had extra pants for the student, a 12-year-old seventh-grader. She didn’t know the small worn spot just above her daughter’s knee would be considered an offense. When Faith Ellis stepped into Gray’s Creek Middle School with her daughter last week, she knew there would be teachers checking for dress code violations.

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