Thank you to the new board and to Mr. Oliver for using some common sense. Teachers are tired of policing for dress code infractions to please the principals who were so afraid that Dr. Brewer would be in the building and see a kid's shirt untucked. Teachers need to be teaching, not writing referrals for shirttails! I am sure this will make them happier to return to school in August!

I would like to compliment the school board for being willing to review and revise where needed. It is a welcome change, regardless of the specific issue.

I am so glad to see we are getting back on the right track.Too much time and effort was spent enforcing and assigning discipline to a child for their shirt tail not being tucked in. It is time to for the teachers and students to focus on what is really important in the school....getting an EDUCATION!
*I actually sent a formal complaint to Mrs. Brewer several month ago on this exact "non-issue". I am so glad to see someone address it.

I never got around to sending in my thoughts to Mr. Johnson, but I'm happy to see they can read minds! Kudos on the dress code changes!

I think as long as the rules are clear and concise (like the bit about being dressed sloppily...who gets to decide what is and isn't sloppy?), the kids will be fine.

I personally don't have a problem with uniforms of some sort, but I know other parents see it differently.

Think we could get rid of the backpack rule, too? My son hates his backpack because it has zero form to it, and it's difficult to carry. The mesh ones are weak, and the clear plastic ones are painful, he says. And why was there a rule against backpacks with wheels? Wouldn't that be better for the children who carry 50 pounds of books home to have that option?

The rolling backpack is a great idea. My child weighs 63 pounds and when I weighed her backpack one day it weighed 30 lbs. Poor thing could barely stand up when she strapped it on.

What will Lisa Sefley do now? She will be out of place when the kids get off the bus.

scarfyrre and momof2 rolling bookbags are a bad idea. They would create a dangerous environment at RH middle school and RH high school. Both schools are crowded so students would trip over them as they change classes. There is hardly enough room for the students in the halls as it is. If there are bookbags trailing 2-3 feet behind the students it will create a bad situation. Elementary students don't need them.

So the kids don't use them in the halls.

Elementary doesn't need them? When a child's backpack weighs half of what the child does, it is not good for them to haul that much on their backs. But I'm not going to argue this point. Allow them so children that walk to and from the bus can wheel their books, just don't allow them to wheel in the halls. Quite simple, really. I do understand the your side of the hallway danger.

I understand the hallway danger, maybe there is another suggestion? My child was in 4th grade last year, when she had homework in multiple subjects sometimes she had to bring several books home, plus her binder. I think RHMS did a great job of providing copies of heavier books to leave at home last year. That is expensive, though so I doubt Carver could also do that.

Smoke, that's totally not fair. These teachers were told that they absolutely had to enforce the dress code. If they obeyed the rules as they were written last year, they didn't get in trouble.

Halleluja on the whole no tucking thing though. Our lives have just been made a lot easier! Thank you BoE!

About the rolling backpack, there are several papers written by pediatric neurologists and orthopedists who are huge fans of them. They are seeing children with spine curvature and compressed discs because of the weight they are forced to carry these days. Whatever happened to kids being kids and not having to literally carry the weight of the world on their little shoulders?