Jeannette Schools' Dress Code Will Be Mandatory

JEANNETTE, Pa. -- Students in the Jeannette City School District will have a new dress code, starting next week.

Jeans, sweatpants and low-riding pants will no longer be allowed. Only dress pants and khakis are approved.

Tops that are OK include polo shirts, turtlenecks, sweaters or dress shirts in the school colors -- red, white and blue.

Some parents and students fought the move, saying it would be too expensive to buy all new clothes.

"It's hard to find stuff cheap for uniforms that we're going to wear for six months," student Emily Lodzsun said.

"I think there's going to be a lot of people who aren't going to do it the first day, and once they see the consequences of not doing it, they will start to," student Katherine Fey said.

The Jeannette school board passed the new code in the summer and made it optional for the first few weeks of school. It becomes mandatory on Monday.