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Please Read Carefully--Renewed Emphasis--Updated Guidelines
The SMS dress code expectations are that students be clean, neatly dressed, and well groomed at all times. Distracting styles and provocative grooming interfere with our focus on learning. Our goal is to promote quality education and behavior acceptable to a working environment.
General Clause
Students are not allowed to wear clothing, tattoos, or items that display, suggest, or advocate in words or graphics/symbols any drug or gang affiliation, violence, reference to profanity, vulgarity, sex, alcohol, tobacco, or drugs – including skull and crossbones, knives, or guns.
General Dress
Clothing shall be worn as designed, suspenders over the shoulder, pants secured at the waist/hips, belts buckled, no underwear as outerwear, no underwear exposed. Clothing that is too tight or revealing when standing, bending, sitting, or moving is unacceptable. Safety pins are not allowed.
Top Garments
Shirts or tops must cover the entire shoulder and must extend “inches” below the waist of the bottom garment or be tucked into the bottom garment, showing no midriff skin or underwear when standing, sitting or bending. Examples of prohibited clothing include: tank tops, spaghetti straps of any width, halters, tube tops, tops with holes that expose the torso, bikini tops, pajama tops, oversized arm holes, backless dresses, clothing with plunging necklines, and see-through or sheer materials.
Bottom Garments
The bottom garment must reach midway between the knee and thigh, and have no holes or frayed edges. Examples of prohibited clothing include: cheer-type shorts, beach-wear, spandex, bicycle and exercise shorts, boxer shorts, pajama pants. Pants and shorts must be zippered, and a belt or suspenders must be worn if pants and shorts cannot remain secured above the hip.
Shoes
Due to safety concerns, appropriate shoes must be worn at all times. Not allowed: flip flops; rubber sandals/shoes; slippers; and athletic cleats and spikes.
Hats, Sunglasses, Hair, Body
Hats, caps, scarves, sweatbands, bandanas, and sunglasses are not to be worn on campus or buses, except as allowed in PE, and must be kept in lockers or inside backpacks during the day. Also not allowed are distractive facial paint or make-up, un-natural hair color, and spiked hair.
Jewelry
Jewelry will be worn in a way that it does not present a safety or health hazard or cause a disruption to the educational process. Neck wear and bracelets with metal studs, other potentially dangerous items or items displaying profanity or drug symbols are not allowed. All chains, including those hanging from the neck, belt, pocket, or attached to the wallet are prohibited. Jewelry and clip-ons in pierced body parts other than in ears is not allowed, including those for the tongue, nose, lips, and eyebrows.
Uniforms
Clothing normally worn for school-sponsored extra-curricular or sports activities may be worn only during a scheduled event as approved by the administration.
Dress Code Enforcement:
It is the responsibility of each SMS student to dress according to the dress code. We seek parent support and monitoring of student’s daily dress. SMS staff members make every effort for consistent enforcement. To avoid loss of class time, students who do not come to school adhering to the dress code guidelines will be required to change into a school provided t-shirt to wear for the day. Students will be responsible for returning the washed t-shirt.
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