Cheerleaders at Gilbert High School in Arizona were banned from wearing their breast cancer fundraiser t-shirts. The shirts read "Feel for Lumps, Save your Bumps." Some parents think the school is being needlessly reactionary. This isn't the only dress code issue that parents and students struggle with. Here are some of the items that schools have forbidden, along with parental reactions to those rules.
"Feel for Lumps, Save your Bumps" t-shirts
Gilbert principal Charles Santa Cruz said that while the school encourages October Breast Cancer Awareness activities, the "Feel for Lumps" shirts were inappropriate and not authorized by the school. The cheerleaders had made the t-shirts to collect money for Susan G. Komen for the Cure. They planned to wear them at football games after school hours. Booster mom, Gayleen Skowronek says, "I think it's hypocritical they would approve a fundraiser for breast-cancer research but they won't approve a shirt to bring awareness to breast cancer." Her cheerleader daughter says, "We're not saying anything a doctor wouldn't say." Other parents say that while they don't disagree with the principal, they think he's making too big of a deal over it.
"I Heart Boobies" breast cancer bracelets
Earlier this year, two Easton, Pa., middle-schoolers Brianna Hawk and Cayla Martinez were suspended for wearing Keep a Breast Foundation bracelets reading, "I (heart) Boobies." The school had banned them, saying the presented a sexual double entendre. Several boys had touched the girls inappropriately, prompted by the bracelets, officials said. The girls, with their parents, filed a lawsuit with the ACLU and won. In response to the lawsuit, a Wisconsin middle-schooler, Kaisey Jenkins and her mom, Caran Braun, challenged their school's no-"boobies" bracelet policy. The school outlawed the bracelets after some parents and faculty complained that the jewelry was inappropriate for children.
"Rebel Moms" school pride t-shirts
Last year, a parent booster group, "Rebel Moms," in Willoughby, Ohio, designed and sold a school pride t-shirt. The t-shirts showed the word "Rebels" (the South High School mascot) with a Confederate flag. The school has an ongoing rivalry with North High School. Officials forbid the sale of the shirts, but only after the mothers had sold 250 of them. The school made the parents redesign the shirts, saying the Confederate flag is offensive to some students.
Pajamas at school
In some schools, it's not just students who have to follow dress code; parents do too. Several UK schools stated that parents should not wear pajamas to school, even when they are simply dropping students off. School officials say sleepwear belongs at home, not in public. This issue sparked debate over whether schools can dictate what parents wear in their vehicles or on school property.
Some schools are banning pajamas for students' apparel also. Students have been allowed to wear pajamas to school for certain school spirit events, but some schools deem pajamas too casual. Parents are mixed on this one: some feel pajamas should not be worn in public, while others say pajamas at school are no big deal.
Marilisa Kinney Sachteleben writes from 23 years parenting four children and 25 years teaching K-8, special needs, homeschool and adult education.
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