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Hundreds sign petition to change KCS dress code

The petition says students want to ability to wear clothes they feel comfortable in.

Back to school means back to the dress code for many students in East Tennessee, and some are not happy about it.

More than seven hundred people have signed a Change.org petition to ask Knox County Schools to change their dress code.

10News asked a group of high school students what they thought of the dress code and their answers might surprise you.

While there is a lot they can't wear--from football jerseys to bandanas too to pants with holes in them--students say there should be a dress code.

"You never know who is less fortunate than who," Junior Inday Walton said. "So when they're not in dress code or whatever people are all 'oh look what he's got on.'"

Senior Corban Carver agreed.

"There's more important things that money goes towards rather than just buying a kid a name brand something," he said.

"Being 16, 17, going on 18, I feel like we're a little bit too old for dress code," Senior Jake Hauoli said. "But at the same time, I feel like it decreases the chance for bullying."

The students we spoke with said they feel they can still show some individuality within the dress code, but say being sent out of class for minor violations is counterproductive.

"They’re taking us out of class and putting us in [suspension] and they’re always on the topic of how they want us in class learning. But I can learn with a hole in my pants, it’s not really that distracting to me," Hauoli said.

Fulton High School has more restrictive guidelines than other Knox County schools. For example, students there have to wear certain colors based on their grade and class choice. The decision to increase restrictions is up to the principal.

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