Although the Independence dress code is readily available on the school’s website, I wanted to point out a few details.
For the most part, the dress code is very reasonable. The only strict items seem to be:
1) Students are not allowed to wear hats, or anything on their heads, inside of the school building, including before school.
2) For female students, the length of dresses, skirts, or shorts must be no shorter than 6 inches above the knee. (This seems short compared to when I was in high school.) Of course, it’s important to keep this rule in mind when picking out shorts.
3) Also for female students, crop tops and tank tops are not allowed. The strap must be wider than a dollar bill.
4) Students are only allowed to wear piercings in their ears (interestingly it doesn’t say only females). Covering piercings with band-aids or other methods isn’t allowed.
5) Finally, students aren’t allowed to wear any shirts are promoting profanity, alcohol, tobacco, or drugs or are otherwise offensive; they also are not allowed to wear sexually suggestive clothing, particularly Coed Naked shirts, Big Johnson shirts, or Hooters shirts.
To see the full dress code go to page 21 at: http://www.wcs.edu/ihs/attendance/forms/Handbook0910.pdf