Uniform Policy

REMINDER
DRESS AND GROOMING GUIDELINES

Student Dress Code
Clothing is to be worn appropriately and in the manner for which it was designed.
Students are responsible for dressing appropriately at all times while at Wagner Middle School or while involved in a school or district sponsored event/activity. Students must wear a Wagner School shirt (spirit wear) or a light blue collar shirt, and bottoms that are at the waist and free of rips, tears, or holes.

SECTION I – TOPS
The proper uniform top is a light blue Wagner polo shirt purchased from the school for $15.00 or Wagner T-shirt for $12.00. The following items are unacceptable:
Hooded tops or hooded sweatshirts
Muscle shirts
Spaghetti strap/halter/mesh tops
Tank tops
See-through blouses or shirts
Tube tops or crop tops

Tops should completely cover undergarments. Any top that is skin-tight, or allows the midriff, cleavage, undergarments, or bare back to be exposed is not permitted.

SECTION II – PANTS, SHORTS, SKIRTS, SKORTS
Students are allowed to wear navy blue or black bottoms. Please adhere to the guidelines below:

Pants, shorts, skirts and skorts must be secured and worn no lower than the hip (at waist level).
Clothing with rips, tears, holes, low riding, or sag style is not permitted.
Length of pants should not extend beyond the bottom of the shoe and should not drag on the floor, to a point of being unsafe.
Pajama or loungewear is not permitted.
Bottoms that you can see-through.
Tear-away pants, boxer shorts worn as outerwear are not permitted.
All shorts, skirts, skorts, and slits in skirts must be knee length.

SECTION III – OFFENSIVE DRESS
Clothing, patches, buttons, pins, jewelry, backpacks are not permitted if they: Have sexually suggestive writing/pictures; advocate violence or gang affiliation, advertise or promote the use of tobacco, alcohol, or drugs; have double meaning wording or obscene language/gestures, disrespectful, prejudicial, or satanic in nature.

A tattoo must be covered if it: has sexually suggestive writing/pictures, advocates violence or gang affiliation.; advertises or promotes the use of tobacco, alcohol or drugs disrespectful, prejudicial, or satanic in nature.

SECTION IV – FOOTWEAR
Appropriate footwear must be worn at all times.
Any shoe that poses a safety hazard is not permitted
Flip flops
Slides
Furry slippers or slides
Regular slippers
Mules (shoes without a back)
Shoes with laces must be tied.
Students are permitted to wear closed toe sandals that strap around the ankle.

SECTION V – JEWELRY
Spiked jewelry, chains, or any jewelry that could cause injury or constitute a hazard are not permitted.

SECTION VI – HEADWEAR
Not permitted:
Hats
Caps
Visors
Bonnets/scarves
Durags/wave caps
Hoods