Sweaters/Sweatshirts

We sent this home Friday, Sept. 9 with all of our students. It included a Sweatshirt order form:

As the weather started to change we decided to see what primarily our girls would wear and we were thinking those little button down cardigans would work.  That has now mushroomed to sweaters with zippers & pockets, and it’s become hard to determine what is and isn’t a jacket.  Also, we are seeing cover-ups that are light and have no buttons or zippers but hang and flow beyond their hips.  Being fashionable is not an intent of our new dress code.  I also do not want teachers spending time trying to make decisions on what are sweaters or a jackets and thus sending students out of class for me to make the determination.

The following is what the 2011 Dress Code states regarding sweaters/sweatshirts:

            Crew Neck solid color sweaters/sweatshirts may be worn over the Polo shirt due to weather.

Beginning Monday that will be the expectation.  The sweaters and sweatshirts must have a crew neck or v-neck (I’m going to add v-neck to the dress code immediately).  The look we achieved through the “any solid color polo” policy has been very successful.  I have heard nothing but positive comments from many parents and staff members.  This array of sweaters with zippers, buttons, frills, etc. does not keep with the look we are promoting.  The kids look very neat with the solid color polos and solid crew neck or v-neck sweaters and sweatshirts will continue that look.

Mr. Goodman has contacted his t-shirt vendor and we are going to make available crew neck sweatshirts at our cost of $8.50 (2XL are $10.50) to both our boys and girls in adult sizes.  The solid color choices are:  navy, white, dark heather gray, sport gray, red, Carolina blue, purple, violet, chocolate, Irish green, orange, black, and light pink.  We will take orders all of next week (Sept.12-16), and hopefully have the sweatshirts the next week.  Payment must be made when the student turns in the order form.

*Students are allowed to wear jackets, coats, hoodies to school.  We require them to put them in their locker before homeroom and they are allowed to wear them during lunch/recess.

Thanks for your continued support and if you want to yell at me for incurring additional costs you can reach me at 435-8326.

Darrin Carnahan