Butt Cheeks at BHS: A closer look at the dress code

Editor’s Note: A previous version of this story contained a misattributed quotation. This quotation has been removed from the story. The Hoofprint regrets this error.

“Inappropriate clothing; anything is generally appropriate as long as it does not affect your health or your safety, doesn’t disrupt the teaching or learning process, does not create school disorder, and is not immodest in your respect. It is required to keep your torso and undergarments covered.”

This quote was taken directly from the BHS handbook regarding our dress code.

Should the limitations be changed? Do you think that people are taking advantage of Buffalo High School’s leniency?

“A lot of girls in our school dress like skanks,” said Senior Miranda Haaland. “People need to have better morals.”
Even though some Buffalo High School students don’t like the way some people dress in our school, administration has never even considered putting more limits into our dress code.

“I think that our dress code should be more strict because too many ninth graders have their pants on the ground,” said Sophomore Mav Flesher.

Regardless of what staff thinks about the way BHS dresses, students will still dress the way they want to. Males and females can both recognize the incentive that people have when they get dressed in the morning.

“I can tell when a girl is dressing to impress or if she is just trying to be comfortable,” said Senior Nick Engfer. “With the way that some people dress, you wouldn’t even know we had a dress code.”

Some students don’t believe that any actions should be taken by the school board to restrict what kids at our school wear.

“There’s no such thing as dressing too provocatively,” said Sophomore Bo Bauman.
Although the majority of students at BHS think negatively of how people choose to dress at our school, there still are some students who look at the situation positively.

Sometimes an immediate action needs to take place to change a student’s’ appearance, if distracting, but it’s difficult to enforce more rules that not all students are going to abide by.

“We don’t really have much of a say in how the students end up dressing,” said Assistant Principal Kris Thompson. “They dress how they want. To express their own individuality.”