• Student Dilemma: Uniforms Student Dilemma: Uniforms Waimea High School has gone through many years of “no uniform” policies, but things may change next year due to dress code violations. The teaching and the rest of the working staff have
• Student Dilemma: Uniforms
Student Dilemma: Uniforms
Waimea High School has gone through many years of “no uniform” policies, but things may change next year due to dress code violations. The teaching and the rest of the working staff have earnestly asked students to obey the dress code and many students have complied with their wishes, but that was not enough.
The number of student-violation of the dress code has slowly been rising as a result of the “modified” dress code. The modified dress code now allowed girls to wear spaghetti strap shirts at a certain requirement, it “outlawed” halter-tops, banned the “baggy” look for guys dress wear, and pulled a few more strings that made the “modified-dressing person” very happy. But since the new dress code has been enacted, violations have been overwhelmingly pouring into the office. The dress code has been violated so much, that most teachers don’t even refer students that are freely showing “too much skin” or “too much leg.” Now how do they react? Uniforms.
For years Waimea High School has flirted with the idea of uniforms and it looks like the emphasis on school uniforms have been heard. Starting next year, the students at WHS will be required to wear the distributed attire. What about those who did not violate the dress code? What happens to the students that do dress accordingly? The same thing – they are doomed to uniforms. Is this fair? Many parents do agree with the idea of uniforms, but there are those that strongly oppose it. Some parents feel their child should wear whatever the parent has bought for his or her child, this oppositions was shown in a previous school uniform policy now being enforced in Waimea Canyon School.
Now these questions remains, will or will there not be waivers for those families who refuse to make their child wear uniforms? Will the families who have more children than they can afford receive waivers? The answers to these questions and forming problems will be answered in the meetings to come. If you’re a concerned parent please write to P.O. Box 1116, Lawa‘i, HI 96765, your concerns will be presented before the Waimea High faculty.
Vickie Flores
Grade 11, Waimea High School
