The way kids express their individuality is to dress exactly like their peers. Way to go Dixon!

Congratulations to the students and parents for choosing a dress code. I hope you will enjoy it as much as my grandchildren who attend a charter school and wear uniforms. Sometimes the peer pressure of clothing can be a burden for students. Hope you see an increase in GPA's and decrease in discipline problems. Good Luck.

Actually enforcing the code the school already had would have addressed the issues about which parents were concerned.

And now I wonder what kind of message we send to children when adults change the rules they themselves have established in order to get what they want?

I don't think there are any winners in this situation and I resent the school waging a battle with my child who was already in compliance with the current standard but who will balk at the new strict standard.

Excellent. I hope all Provo schools will adopt the same policy!

What is so great about collars on shirts?? I don't think I have any shirts with collars that I wear. A rule like that makes finding clothes for girls harder rather than easier.

finally someone with standards. Go Dixon!

Now if only we could get every school to adopt a decent dress code...but maybe that's in the next millenium.

Actually anonymous 6:27, maybe forcing the kids to dress "exactly like their peers" will cause them to express their individuality in other, more productive ways.

And maybe, just maybe, kids will begin to make friends and establish a social pecking order based on quality of character and not price of clothes.

They should have gone all the way to uniforms.

Great to see that 78% of the parents ARE more concerned about parenting than pandering.

I just wish schools would focus on quality academic standards. This should be first, before things that make little difference. Math education has declined, why not focus on it?

Umm... I think this is the first step in doing just what you're suggesting. If young teens could avoid focusing on which boys pants hang the lowest and which girls show the most skin, maybe they could actually focus on academics.

Way to bash the schools for kids not being focused and ready to learn when they get to school though.

Both Dixon and Centennial have excellent Math scores.

Do a little research and find out.

Oh wait that is too hard for someone that probably hasn't been in a school for 50 years yet wants to bemoan current education.

By the way, our kids are taking Algebra in 7th grade. We didn't take it until 9th.

It's nice to think that a dress code will get kids to express their individuality in more "productive ways," or that, now that they're wearing collared shirts, they will "make friends and establish a social pecking order based on quality of character," but that's a pretty big jump! If only it were that easy. Lets not kid ourselves: Are we talking about appropriateness/modesty in dress, or trying to get kids to be nice to each other/getting rid of cliques? Let's name what the problem is and address it.

I taught middle school and high school. Enforcing the original clothing standard would have solved the problem of modesty. Adopting the new standard punishes the students who dresses modestly, but just wants to wear what s/he likes (what's wrong with a plain t-shirt?!).

The new standard makes parents feel good, like they're involved and making a difference, but it doesn't really accomplish all it promises to.

The process did raise the parental involvement at the school. The PTA for next year has already been set, the number of Panther Patrol parents signed up for next year has never been this high before the school year started. The "clothing fund" has started to be funded. I guess it does make the parents feel good! Is that such a bad thing?
I say a big Thank You to all the parents and the administration at Dixon. We can reclaim education for our kids and it is time we realize we are the adults. Our responsibility is to make guidelines for our kids future. I am glad that the Dress Standard still allowed for a lot of choices to be made by the students. I applaud all involved and wish Dixon a very great upcoming school year!

To have the dress code changed at Dixon Middle School there had to be an 80% vote in favor of the change. This didn't happen! You don't make changes to what was voted on by the parents so you can get the changes you want even if the vote had been 79.9 in favor of the dress code, it's not 80% and the dress code should have gone down in defeat. Again we find it doesn't really matter what we say, We'll make sure we get what we want. I'm in favor of changes, but not this way. No wonder our children have a hard time with life.

COLLARS: easily attached to any t-shirt come in a verity of colors.