Dress Code
Good grooming and positive personal appearance are an important part of the Live Oak High School learning environment.  As a school, Live Oak should be considered a workplace and dress should support workplace behavior.  For the most part, grooming and personal appearance should be left up to the good sense and judgment of students, parents, and guardians.  However, any clothing or decoration which detracts from the learning environment is prohibited. The school has the right to request that any student dressing inappropriately for school will change into other clothes, be sent home to change, and/or be subject to disciplinary action.
Specific Inappropriate Dress Includes:
§ Bare feet, slippers or steel-toed boots § Garments exposing any portion of the torso or stomach § Bare midriffs, net shirts, backless shirts, shirts without straps, tube tops and garments that are see-through § Shirts that are low-cut or expose excessive amounts of the chest region § Undershirts in place of regular shirts (boys) § Shorts/dresses/skirts must be of an appropriate length and are subject to administrative approval. (Items, when worn at the waist, may not have a hemline that rests at mid-thigh or shorter when the student is seated.) § Clothing or symbols which show obscene pictures or gestures, sexually suggestive statements, swear words, substances illegal to juveniles (tobacco, alcohol or drugs), weapons, words/pictures depicting death, violence or gore. § Clothing, headgear, or symbols related to gang activities or clothing determined to be gang related by administration or resource officer § Doo rags or bandanas of any color § Wearing of one glove on either hand (as it is a gang related action) § Sagging pants. Pants must be worn at waist level in a manner in which underwear is not exposed or would not be exposed if shirts were raised § Spiked attire or safety pins § Red, burgundy or blue of any shade shoelaces or canvas belts
Disciplinary Action
Students who are reprimanded for repetitive dress code violations will be imposed with the following disciplinary actions: § 1^st offense – Warning, conference with Assistant Principal and change of clothing or confiscation of article § 2^nd offense – After school detention, phone call home and confiscation of article § 3^rd offense – Saturday school and confiscation of article § 4^th offense – Saturday school and confiscation of article § 5^th offense – Suspension and confiscation of article Students who do not show up to after school detention will be assigned Saturday school. Students who do not show up for Saturday school will be suspended from school the following school day.