The primary purpose for student dress and grooming standards is to foster an educational environment that is both safe and free from disruption. The following standards conform to the district-wide dress and grooming standards as well to the specific standards set forth by students, teachers, administrators, and parents at Aliso Niguel High School. Students out of compliance with the standards below, on the first offense, will be detained in the Center for Special Instruction (CSI) until a change of clothing can be arranged. On subsequence offenses, students will be assigned a consequence and may be kept in CSI for the remainder of the school day and/or put on a behavior contract. Excessive violations of the below standards will result in more severe school consequences. A student is in violation of the following standard when an adult staff member (e.g., campus supervisor, administrator, teacher, etc.) sees the student violating the standard. The offense and subsequent consequence does not change because the student is able to alter his/her clothing after being addressed.
Note:
In order to protect the general student body and maintain the integrity of the educational environment, the school reserves the right to make necessary additions to the below standards without notice.
Students are prohibited from wearing the following:
- Any clothing considered unsafe, dangerous, or is a health hazard, including, but not limited to:
- Dangerous jewelry, including spiked or dangerous collars (chains, ball bearings, etc.)
- Excessively baggy, frayed, or torn clothing
- Safety pins or sharp objects in clothes or pierced in skin
- Bare feet or slippers
- Clothing that is ripped or excessively torn
- Any attire or grooming disruptive to the instructional process, including, but not limited to:
- Containing offensive, illegal, violent, obscene symbols, signs, slogans, or words degrading any gender, culture, religion, ethnic value, race, or anything which may incite a negative response or conflict, including references to sex, drugs, alcohol, or tobacco
- Bare midriffs or clothing which exposes the student's midsection
- Sheer/see-through blouses, dresses, tops, or skirts
- Halter tops, tube tops, spaghetti straps, or tank tops that are excessively revealing, reveal undergarments, have scoop or deep sides; shirts must have at least one strap on each side of the neck, and straps must be at least one inch in width
- Excessively short shorts or immodest shorts or skirts
- Tight or revealing clothing (especially ones with no undergarments)
- Clothing that allows underwear to be exposed or resembles undergarments (i.e. slips)
- Hair styles or hair coloring that is disruptive or has letters or messages shaved into the hair
- Pajama-type clothing, including, but not limited to, lingerie, "wife-beater" type undershirts, nightshirts, and flannel pants
- Gang-related apparel which may include, but is not limited to:
- Hats, beanies, hooded sweatshirts (worn with hood on) or headgear during the school day. This includes headgear worn as a apart of an athletic team or co-curricular activity during the school day. Only district-approved hats are allowed; see your assistant principal if interested.
- Chains, wallet chains, hair nets, monikers, or other gang markings, bandannas worn or displayed in any way, jewelry with gang symbols, gang-related overalls
- Web, untied, or dangling belts, especially long belts with monikered belt buckles
- Combat type boots (with more than 8 eyelets) and/or steel toes
- Socks or pants worn to completely cover one leg with the other leg exposing the calf
- Any style or combination of clothing, which law enforcement agencies currently consider gang-related; students who dress alike intentionally, and the dress is not related to school activities, are disruptive to the school environment.
- Examples include, but are not limited to: "wife-beater" tank tops, white tank tops under white over shirts, white shirt with long shorts and pulled up white socks so as not to expose skin on legs, nazi/confederate symbols, patches, or red shoelaces, plain white shirt with Dickey brand name pants, webbed belt, and any combination of "straight-edge" markings, "X", or any items that are associated with gangs and are identified as such by law enforcement.
- Baggy Pants: all pants must:
- Be capable of staying up around the waist without a belt
- Be unaltered at the waist, worn at or above the hips and over all undergarments
- Not be excessively baggy
- Have hemmed cuffs without excessive tears or intentional slits cut
- Have a crotch that does not hang excessively low
- Not have excess material at the foot or drag
- These baggy pants guidelines also apply to sweat pants, warm-ups, and shorts.
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