The district’s dress code is established to teach grooming and hygiene, prevent disruption, and minimize safety hazards. Students and parents may determine a student’s personal dress and grooming standards, provided that they comply with the Florence ISD Student Dress Code as follows:
• All students are to wear clean and appropriate clothing to school and to school sponsored events.
• Clothing must be modest, worn with proper undergarments.
• Students shall not wear any item that is distracting, disruptive, gang-related, drug related (includes alcohol and tobacco products), or suggestive (wording, and/or symbols, implied or otherwise). The following are not permissible:
• Visible undergarments or lingerie (or swim suit tops visible as lingerie),
• See-through or revealing clothes of any type, Florence Independent School District Student Handbook Page 52 of 100
• Short shorts or wind shorts with biker pants,
• Sleepwear/loungewear (or any facsimile thereof),
• Excessively revealing tight fitting garments (leggings, “jeggings,” yoga pants may be worn under shorts, a skirt, a dress, or tunic no shorter than one inch below the student’s fingertips),
• Oversized garments that sag below the waistline or reveal undergarments, even if the shirt is not tucked in, • Tube tops, body suits, halter tops, racer backs, and strapless tops,
• Straps hanging down when designed to be over-the-shoulder,
• Hats, caps, or other headgear including hoods (worn in building),
• Dog collars, wallet chains, or any style of chain hooked to garments,
• “Spiked” accessories, • Opaque or designer contact lenses or sunglasses,
• Distracting hair or hair color (such as but not limited to designs shaved into hair, Mohawks),
• Body art/tattoos, unless discreet/not offensive or covered,
• Coloration on hands, face, and feet without a reason, such as theater production,
• Trench coats, overcoats, or dusters (worn in building),
• Flip-flops on Elementary Campus (unless secondary footwear is brought for physical education (PE) and recess activities),
• Ornamented body piercings (including clear), except earrings for girls (Covering the ornamented piercings with band aides does not make them acceptable.),
• Pants having holes three inches or more above the mid-point of the knee, or
• Ear discs.
Not Permissible for Girls
• Shorts, skirts, slits in skirts and dresses shorter than one inch below the student’s fingertips, regardless of whether leggings, “jeggings” or spandex are worn,
• Visible facial or body piercing jewelry, except for earrings,
• Makeup in grades prekindergarten through 5,
• Exposed cleavage, or
• Shoulder straps less than one-inch wide (such as spaghetti straps).
Not Permissible for Boys
• Footwear not applicable for daily activity such as running/jumping (or bare feet),
• Facial hair and sideburns longer than the bottom of the earlobe,
• Earrings, facial jewelry, or visible body piercing jewelry,
• Nail polish or makeup,
• Hair longer than the bottom of a T-shirt collar,
• Hair falling over the eyebrows,
• Hair hiding the ears,
• Hair pinned up, pulled behind the ears, or tied in a ponytail, or
• Sleeveless shirts that expose the underarms.
If the principal determines that a student’s grooming or clothing violates the school’s dress code, the student will be given an opportunity to correct the problem at school. If not corrected, the student may be assigned to in-school suspension for the remainder of the day, until the problem Florence Independent School District Student Handbook Page 53 of 100 is corrected, or until a parent or designee brings an acceptable change of clothing to the school. Repeated offenses may result in more serious disciplinary action in accordance with the Student Code of Conduct.
