Schools Can Now Require Uniforms
Principals in the Fullerton School District have been given permission to impose mandatory dress codes.
Under a district policy recently revised by the school board, schools may require students to wear uniforms with parental approval.
One of the district’s elementary school principals already has been asked by several parents to implement a mandatory dress code.
Officials at school districts that now require students to wear uniforms credit the policy with reducing some discipline problems.
As long as parents overwhelmingly favor the dress code, principals may require uniforms, Fullerton district officials said.
Should schools impose a mandatory dress code, a panel of parents, students and teachers would be allowed to choose the uniform.
In addition, children whose parents who do not want them to wear uniforms will not be forced to do so, officials said.
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