Dress Code

DRESS CODE COMMITMENTS (STAFF, TUTORS, PARENTS AND STUDENTS)

  • On Tuesdays, we want everyone to be comfortable and to be able to dress with a degree of your fashion personality intact, remembering that we are guests at our host church. Our appearance should never offend the staff or the visitors of our hosts. 

  • Please remove hats during prayer and if requested by tutors/lunch mentor. 

  • If you wear a hoodie to tutorial, the hood must remain down at all times.

  • Clothing with inappropriate logos or slogans, tight or sheer clothing, or bare midriffs are inappropriate. 

  • If you stand up straight and hold your arms shoulder high, no skin should be visible at your waist. Apply the “no skin” test to active bending over and sitting down (or from sides for sleeveless shirts). Undergarments should not be visible through tight or thin fabrics. Necklines should never expose cleavage; apply the “bending over in front of the mirror” test. No stripping to the waist to play sports. 

  • Modest sleeveless blouses/shirts/tops are acceptable, as long as the portion covering the shoulder is equivalent to the width of the student’s first three fingers (at the knuckles) or greater and undergarments are completely covered.

  • Strapless shirts are not allowed and spaghetti straps may only be worn under other acceptable garments. 

  • Dresses, skirts, and shorts must come below your longest fingertip (front, sides and back). Also any pants with rips should not expose skin above the fingertips.

  • Leggings/yoga pants are not pants; leggings/yoga pants can only be worn under appropriate length skirts, shorts, or blouses / t-shirts longer than fingertips. Leggings/yoga pants are also not opaque tights. 

  • No pajama pants.

  • This dress code is in effect for all functions that are directly a part of the tutorial. The only exception is formal dance/prom, which will have separate guidelines.

Please use common sense and don’t dress in a way that would make others uncomfortable or distract them from their studies. If in doubt, wear something else!

DRESS CODE ENFORCEMENT

If a student comes to tutorial and is not in dress code, the following will be done:

  • First Offense: Student will be given a paper with our dress code policies, and then given a shirt/sweat pants to cover up (or can get approved clothing coverup from their car/parent, but may not go to class until they are in dress code). Parents will be sent an email to notify them of the dress code policy infraction and will be billed $10 for the clothing item (unless the parent provided clothing).

  • Second Offense: Student will be given a paper with our dress code policies, and the parent will have to come to pick the student up from tutorial (the student will not be able to attend tutorial that day). If the student is a driver we will contact the parent first before the student leaves. The student will be fined $25, and cannot come back to tutorial till it is paid.

  • Additional offenses will have the same consequence as the second offense, and may lead to behavioral probation.

Electronics Policy

  • You must turn in your phone when checking in. If you need to call/text you can come to the front desk to do so, but must leave your phone there when you return. If a staff/tutor sees you with a phone they will take it to turn into the Director, and you will be fined $25. That fee must be paid by the following Tuesday or the student may not attend class.

    • NOTE: If a tutor allows a phone for a class activity students may check out their phone before class and check it back in immediately afterwards.

  • No Headphones except in quiet study hall. This includes air-pods.

  • Laptops Only in Quiet Study Hall (or in class if allowed by tutor). They must always be positioned to be viewable by tutor or study hall monitor.

Sick / Illness Policy

  • Please do not come if you have a cold, the flu, or any symptoms of covid or other contagious illness. Students must be at least 48 hours fever-free to attend. If one person in the house is sick, please have all family members stay home until all are well or past the above time frame of 48 hours. If in doubt, please stay home, our tutors will work with you.

Handbook

Have any questions about our policies? Contact Matthew Bullington.