per Parent & Student Handbook
General Dress Code for Western Sierra Collegiate Academy.
The following dress code was created with input from those whom it may affect,
including students, faculty, and parents.
1. Any given clothing shall be permitted unless otherwise explicitly prohibited in
the following sections.
2. For purposes of the following sections, clothing is defined as all the garments
that an individual is wearing.
3. A student shall not be subjected to disciplinary sanctions due to clothing, which
is not explicitly prohibited in the following sections.
4. Clothing is prohibited which is unsafe either for himself/herself or others.
5. Clothing is prohibited which is disruptive to school programs or the educational
process.
6. Clothing is prohibited which is suggestive of or displays ideas related to drugs,
alcohol, tobacco, violence, nudity, weapons, sexual activity, gang ideology,
obscene language, lawlessness or is found to be discriminatory on the basis of
a person’s actual or perceived; ethnicity, religion, sex, gender or gender
identity, color, race, ancestry, national origin, physical or mental disability, age,
sexual orientation or association with a person or a protected group with one
or more of these actual or perceived characteristics in any of its policies,
practices or procedures, programs or activities.
7. Clothing is prohibited which does not cover the buttocks at all times.
8. Clothing is prohibited which does not cover the stomach.
a) For purposes of this section the stomach is defined as the front and side of the
midriff.
9. Clothing is prohibited which does not cover the chest.
a) For purposes of this section the chest is defined as the front of the upper torso
across and down from the armpits.
10. Clothing is prohibited which does not cover the back beneath the shoulder
blades.
a) For purposes of this section, an area is considered covered if it is partially
obscured from view by mesh, lace or other similar material.
11. Clothing is prohibited which does not cover the shoulders unless such clothing
has a strap that was originally intended to be worn over each shoulder or other
garment that goes over each shoulder.
a) This section shall not be construed as requiring straps or other material to
have a certain width.
