Northwestern High School - Rock Hill School District

INITIATIONS (HAZING)
All forms of initiation are banned.
FAMILIARITIES
Students will refrain from bodily contact with one another in a show of affection.
CODE OF DRESS POLICY
Northwestern High School’s community believes that there is a relationship between student attire,
classroom behavior, attitude, and achievement. The main objective of this code of dress is to help
provide guidelines for appropriate attire as students transition from the classroom environment to the
world of work or postsecondary settings.
Goals/Objectives - Provide a safe and secure learning environment by:
Identifying trespassers Erasing cultural and economic differences Enhancing self-concepts
Bringing more dignity to classrooms Increasing classroom performance Setting tone for serious study
Decreasing classroom disruptions Reducing Gang Type Influence Promoting self discipline and School Pride
Responsibility for the dress and appearance of students enrolled in the Rock Hill District Three schools
primarily rests with parents and the students themselves. Some student apparel may not be appropriate
to wear to school even though that same apparel may be appropriate in other settings. Parents are
strongly urged to pay particular attention to the cleanliness, modesty and appropriateness of their
child’s attire. District board policy states that the board reserves the right to bar from school students
whose personal appearance is disruptive to the educational process and the orderly operation of school.
In order to enforce this policy, our school’s community has adopted the following guidelines regarding
student dress.
The rules below should cover the vast majority of situations that might arise daily; however, the
administration reserves the right to make decisions regarding the appropriateness of any item not
specifically covered in this policy. The provisions of this policy apply to all students and will be
enforced as soon as students arrive on campus. Any student’s continued noncompliance of the code of
dress will be viewed as defiance and will carry increasingly harsher disciplinary consequences.
STUDENT ATTIRE
Clothing and/or accessories that advertise drugs, alcohol, weapons, anything suggestively profane,
obscene, racial, illegal or gang/neighborhood related, may not be worn or brought to school. Items
that violate the dress code policy will be confiscated
Student IDs:
• Students are required to visibly wear on the
upper torso a regular or temporary ID at all
times of the instructional day. (campus
arrival to 3:37pm)
• Student’s picture, name or barcode on IDs
may not be altered, block, covered or
rendered useless.
• Up to 5 temporary IDs can be purchased
without penalty during non-instructional
time for $1 in the attendance office
beginning at 7:30 AM.
• Boxer shorts may not be worn as outside
clothing.
Pants/Shorts/Skirts/Skorts:
• Must be worn at the waistline. No sagging
(wearing of outer pants, shorts, etc. below
the waist) will be allowed. It is
recommended that all pants with belt loops
should be worn with a belt properly buckled
at the waistline. If worn properly, pants,
shorts, skirts/skorts should not need to be
held in place by the student’s hands.
• The length of properly worn shorts or skorts
must fall lower than mid thigh of the wearer
when standing.
• Skirt length must not be higher than 4
inches above the knee when standing.
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