Student Dress and Grooming- 

Students are urged to dress for success each school day. Their overall appearance, while on school grounds or virtually, should be based on the health and safety of an inclusive school community. It is understood that student dress may reflect outdoor weather conditions throughout the school year; however, students should refrain from wearing any item of clothing that may cause a distraction or disruption to the educational process or compromise the physical and emotional health and safety of the student or others. 

 Students whose appearance disrupts instruction may be asked to change clothing. 

The PWCS student dress and grooming guidelines are created to ensure equity in student expression and staff enforcement and are not intended to discriminate based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, genetic information, or any other basis prohibited by law. The dress and grooming standards apply equally to all students regardless of gender, gender identity, or gender expression. 

Students are permitted to wear any religious or ethnically specific or significant head covering or hairstyle. Permitted head coverings and hairstyles include, but are not limited to: Braids, Cornrows, Headwraps, Hijabs, Locs, Yarmulkes. 

Prohibited items of clothing include:  

Clothing items which:  

• Reveal or expose undergarments. 

• Fit in a manner as to reveal or expose undergarments,  

• Contain vulgar, discriminatory, lewd, patently offensive, or obscene language or images. 

• Contain threats or gang symbols.  

• Promote violence or the illegal use of weapons, or the use of alcohol, tobacco, illegal drugs, and/or associated paraphernalia,  

• Cause or may foreseeably cause a disruption to the learning environment. 

• Are accessories that could be regarded as or used as a weapon.  

• Headwear that covers one’s entire head or face, unless the headwear is:  

•   Worn as part of one’s religion.  

• Worn for medical reasons. 

• Worn for personal prevention practices like in the case of infectious diseases.  

• Worn for an approved school event. 

• Worn as an expression of one’s cultural or ethnic background.