TN STATE LAW PROPOSED REQUIRING DRESS CODE FOR PARENTS, VISITORS TO SCHOOLS

What students should or shouldn’t wear to school has been the subject of many debates in and around the country, but what about parents? A Memphis lawmaker is proposing that parents and other visitors to schools, like kids, should follow a dress code.

State Rep. Antonio Parkinson says he keeps getting calls about parents showing up to their children’s schools inappropriately dressed and, in some cases, not fully clothed, CBS affiliate WREG reports.

“I’ve heard some concerns from principals,” he says, “They say you’d be surprised at some of the stuff that we see.”

Parkinson plans on pushing a bill requiring a dress code for parents and visitors. The details would be up to each district, WREG says.

“I visualize clothes that are not sexually suggestive,” he said. “Not wearing things that might encourage or suggest gang activity.”

The bill would require the code of conducted to be posted at every school entrance and given to parents every year when students register for classes.