Similarities Between Students
Purpose of the Study
The drive of this study is to decide if students who violates the school dress code policy; are the same ones receiving a discipline referral. Quite often, students are labelled by their behavior or action. When students have continuous bad experiences in school, absentees and dropping out tend to be the common answers. Schools are supposed to be a safe haven for students. As students grow up each year in school. They begin to feel more and more safe and secure. Their learning abilities increases, as well as their self-esteem. Does school dress code to help provide that needed extra help to motivate students or to increase student achievement?
There is a strong support for the uniform policy, …show more content…
Boys violated the dress code policy more than girls. Grade violation scores were higher for eighth graders than sixth and seventh graders. Age wise: twelve and thirteen year old constantly had dress code violations. After reviewing discipline records, the study established that 45.5 % of the students were first time offenders. African-Americans had the greatest discipline referral. Boys had more discipline referrals than girls. Fourteen year olds and eight graders had high discipline records. (Nicholson, 2007, p. 4) According to aptitude test scores, students who were proficient in Math and English violated dress code policy often. When cross-tabs with discipline referrals students with basic or below basic score in Math stood out the most. In English student’s that scored either proficient or basic violated the discipline more. The report stated if the finding were found to be true based on the results, the following actions should immediately take place:
1) School board members may need to reconvene a school meeting, if strict dress code rules do not decrease disciplinary referrals.
2) Why punish the entire school, if the same students who received discipline referrals are the ones breaking dress code …show more content…
Principal and staff views were not included regarding school uniform policy, nor discipline problems at Newport Junior High School. The feedback from principals and staff would have produced a more stable analysis and involvement of all stakeholders. Race, ethnicity only identified one race, African-American as the target population in the article. A complete race population breakdown of ethnicity enrollment at the school, would allow readers to know the true identity of the school. Identification of student’s achievement scores was not included this article. Which could have been very helpful in understanding an achievement yearly graph. Time constraints to complete survey should have been longer than one week and focus on all areas of the school (hallways, cafeteria, classroom, and gym). Several limitations hinder this article, but the three main questions asked in the beginning of the article was answered. (Nicholson,
Purpose of the Study
The drive of this study is to decide if students who violates the school dress code policy; are the same ones receiving a discipline referral. Quite often, students are labelled by their behavior or action. When students have continuous bad experiences in school, absentees and dropping out tend to be the common answers. Schools are supposed to be a safe haven for students. As students grow up each year in school. They begin to feel more and more safe and secure. Their learning abilities increases, as well as their self-esteem. Does school dress code to help provide that needed extra help to motivate students or to increase student achievement?
There is a strong support for the uniform policy, …show more content…
Boys violated the dress code policy more than girls. Grade violation scores were higher for eighth graders than sixth and seventh graders. Age wise: twelve and thirteen year old constantly had dress code violations. After reviewing discipline records, the study established that 45.5 % of the students were first time offenders. African-Americans had the greatest discipline referral. Boys had more discipline referrals than girls. Fourteen year olds and eight graders had high discipline records. (Nicholson, 2007, p. 4) According to aptitude test scores, students who were proficient in Math and English violated dress code policy often. When cross-tabs with discipline referrals students with basic or below basic score in Math stood out the most. In English student’s that scored either proficient or basic violated the discipline more. The report stated if the finding were found to be true based on the results, the following actions should immediately take place:
1) School board members may need to reconvene a school meeting, if strict dress code rules do not decrease disciplinary referrals.
2) Why punish the entire school, if the same students who received discipline referrals are the ones breaking dress code …show more content…
Principal and staff views were not included regarding school uniform policy, nor discipline problems at Newport Junior High School. The feedback from principals and staff would have produced a more stable analysis and involvement of all stakeholders. Race, ethnicity only identified one race, African-American as the target population in the article. A complete race population breakdown of ethnicity enrollment at the school, would allow readers to know the true identity of the school. Identification of student’s achievement scores was not included this article. Which could have been very helpful in understanding an achievement yearly graph. Time constraints to complete survey should have been longer than one week and focus on all areas of the school (hallways, cafeteria, classroom, and gym). Several limitations hinder this article, but the three main questions asked in the beginning of the article was answered. (Nicholson,