Hi! I absolutely love your blog, and I was wondering how you felt about teacher dress codes. For example, for my freshman and sophomore year, the teachers were required to dress more professionally, no jeans allowed. This year, the teachers can dress more casually, and a lot of them wear jeans and t shirts. I like this because I think that it makes my teachers more approachable, but the school has been coming under fire for not making the teachers “maintain a professional environment”. Thoughts?

I have always worked in school environments where students are from low socio-economic backgrounds; I have always dressed professionally, but still casual enough that students won’t think of me as someone “above them.”  Other teachers I work with dress similarly.  There are different rules, protocols and ideas about how to dress everywhere, and schools just need to find what works for them.

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