Missing from the updated dress code is the parameter that students are “not to wear clothing that’s distracting to teaching or learning.”
It was under this parameter that Karis Wilson, a high school senior at NorKam Secondary School, was sent home several months ago.
On February 23, Karis went to school wearing a white long-sleeved turtleneck beneath a black dress. Her father, Christopher, said she was “feeling good about herself” and was “ready to learn.”
But, as Christopher recounted on social media, Karis’s teacher told her that the outfit made, or could make, her or the teacher’s assistant, who is male, “feel uncomfortable.”