Teachers have many more important

tasks to do every day and we would love not having to be the "Fashion

Police!" Until we have uniforms, that even Ms. Greer mentioned as

a good idea, teachers have the job and obligation to enforce the guidelines

given us by the Fayette County Board of Education. Parents need to check

with the handbook that the students get to see exactly what the dress

code is, and they need to support our efforts to enforce it. For example,

we know that the guideline for girls' shorts and tops is not what Ms.

Greer said, there is no mention of "finger width" for shirts,

it says that shirts need to cover "to the shoulder." Assuming

parents will join with us, instead of being against us, students will

not have to worry about being stopped at school and questioned about their

clothing. It's time that parents in Fayette County teach their children

respect for authority, and how to follow rules, etc., too many of these

same children will be in trouble later in life for not learning this now.

Today is the last day of school,

and we would like to tell the readers of some of the ways our students

came dressed: shorts on girls where their back cheeks were exposed, tank

tops with little or no underclothing, hair dyed brilliant colors and spiked

to the sky, holes in clothes exposing much skin, and more! For next year,

we would like parents to invest a little time and effort into helping

us to resolve this problem.

Thank you,

Fayette County teachers