I go to the same school as xzvrw2, and thus, succumb to the same school board administration. From my past knowledge, our administration was below favorable. Not only students, not only parents, but teachers and principals find the decisions made from our administration to be unacceptable.
This may be off topic, but at the beginning of last year's school year, the teachers and the administration were caught in a dead-lock, when teachers refused to sign their yearly contract due to disagreements with certain policies, most importantly, the teacher's payroll. I have heard many opinions about this disagreement, with most of these opinions unfavorable with the policies of the administration. I do not know much of the events that followed, but it has been rumored that the teachers were eventually "forced" to sign their contract, due to threats from the school administration, which included cutting vacation time, and canceling many incentives such as Assemblies and teacher prep days.
Our administration had also done ridiculous things in the past, including canceling board meetings just mere hours before they were scheduled, and making decisions to be enforced without much prior consent from the teachers, the parents or the students. Many decisions like this have lead to nothing, and has accomplished almost squat. The three-weeks prior notice of this new dress code policy will, in my opinion, tarnish the policy, and thus, unless threatening enforcement comes from the school administration, the dress code will most likely never happen.
If the dress code does happen, however, there will likely be resistance from the students in the school. I agree with what mechanicalbrain said in the previous post. A dress code will only dent the outside of a person's personality, but if you account for the previous decisions they made in life, then a mere dress code will never cover up the person on the inside. If you dress a gangster in a pair of Khakis and a polo, you will still have a gangster, and he will still most likely be a gangster. It's his choice, not anybody else's. (although you could help him make the decision to lead a better life!
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