Surviving high school can often mean playing by the rules. Two rules students need to brush up on this year included the dress code and tardies.

Of course rules may seem like they take some of the fun out of high school, but teachers met over the summer to talk about ways to keep students learning in the classroom and teacher consensus arrived at revamping these two policies.

“The only change that’s new is that if girls wear the yoga pants, as long as the shirt cover their bottoms, it’s ok,” said Principle Crayton.

The same old rules still apply. Your shorts can only be six inches above the knee, the straps of your shirt must be two fingers thick, no cleavage, and no showing of the mid drift area. Class president, Sydney Branning, says these policies don’t help students.

“I don’t think anybody is actually distracted by people wearing running shorts,” said Branning.

Though these rules apply mainly to girls boys have dress code of their own. Boys pants cannot sag or show their undergarments and they are not allowed to wear anything with inappropriate messages on it. Male students also don’t tend to feel distracted by cloths that are banned.

“When I’m in class, I’m either taking notes or taking a quiz. I’m never eyeing around the room like oh what everyone is wearing today,” said senior Chance Venable.

Students seem convinced that this dress code is unnecessary. Mr. Crayton thinks otherwise.

“It is important that students dress professionally and that you’re dressed for success,” said Crayton.

The dress code has not seen a dramatic change but the tardies have.

“However many tardies you have for all class periods combined. You can be tardy once time first period, once time second period, and once time third period but if you combine it you have three tardies.,” said Crayton.

What this means is that students will get four tardies per class without consequences. Students feel as though this policy is not fair.

“I’m late all the time in the mornings and I’m late for lunch sometimes and four is not enough,” said Branning.

Some students aren’t as upset about the new tardy policies.

“I guess that’s fair, but i feel like four might be too little,” said Venable.

Most students would agree that this policy could be changed and improved in some ways however Mr. Crayton feel this policy has sparked improvement.

“We are noticing a huge difference. Students are getting to class on time because they don’t want to get up to the twelve or fifteen tardies,” said Crayton.

Mr. Crayton feels confident about all of the new policy changes.

“I feel like we have listened to the students” said Crayton.

Though the attitude toward the new policies seems negative students have a tendency to adapt to these changes. The changes aren’t as big as most students thought and won’t become more strict any time soon.

“I don’t see any further changes happening. I feel like we found a happy balance with the way things are,” said Crayton.