Armed Forces insignias against dress code in Jordan School District?


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WEST JORDAN — Schools everywhere have some sort of dress code guidelines to make sure what students are wearing is in good taste.

On Wednesday, a letter went home with some students in the Jordan School District titled, "Students' Dress Code."

Item No. 3 reads: "Jackets or clothing with insignias representing the Armed Forces of our country or insignia that do not reflect the dignity of learning, modesty and the principles of education are not to be worn."

To which one parent later responded on a Facebook post: "This has to be a joke, right?"

It wasn't a joke, but definitely wrong.

"It's unfortunate that this went out, and we apologize that there was an error,” said Sandy Riesgraf, director of communications for the Jordan School District. “We're looking into it, but it is inaccurate."

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More than 52,000 students attend schools in the Jordan District. With many military families in Utah, students occasionally wear clothing that has insignias on them.

The district has never had a problem with that, Riesgraf said.

“From what we can tell, the district policy has always been that students are allowed to wear clothing with military insignia as long as it’s done in a respectable manner,” Riesgraf said. “We want to honor servicemen and women.”

As the actual district guidelines state, the clothing should be worn in accordance with current military protocol.

As for who sent the bogus dress code letter out, that's still a mystery. But Thursday, the district quickly contacted all those who received it.

"Every parent who received it should have gotten a sky-alert message, phone call or email today with accurate information,” she said.

Some students were also sent home with letters Thursday with the accurate information. The district didn't have an estimate as to how many students or parents received the incorrect dress code info.

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