Uniforms - the Dress Code for Public Schools in the United States COMM 215

It happens every year. Parents spend hundreds of dollars buying school clothes they feel are appropriate for their children at the start of the new school year. But, sometime during the first couple of weeks of school, one or more of your children come home with a notice from their school addressing the school's new dress code. Parents discover that about one-half of the clothes they just bought are now against the school dress code. …

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