Successful Student Led Code Change is ‘Democracy in Action’
Months ago, approaching the start of the second half of the 2016-2017 school year, two G. Ray Bodley High School students approached the Board of Education with a proposition. Their intent was to initiate an experiment that they believed would demonstrate changes in behavioral and attendance issues in regards to the current school policy that bans students from wearing hats in school. The plan, developed by senior Calinda Ceterski and junior Mason Rowlee, was to change the dress code policy to allow students to wear their hats during school hours except in instances where removing your hat is expected as a sign of respect during times such as the Pledge of Allegiance, while in the auditorium, or by individual teacher discretion. The temporary policy was implemented for the third and fourth quarters of the school year and yielded results that the students had expected.
