The policy has been called 'classist' and 'discriminatory,' especially since it targets parents at a majority-minority high school where many students come from low-income households.
Principal Carlotta Outley Brown, pictured in April 2018, has implemented a dress code for parents at James Madison High School in Houston. By Antonia Noori Farzan Antonia Noori Farzan Reporter for the Morning Mix Email Bio Follow April 24 at 5:08 AM It’s not exactly unusual for school dress codes to become a source of controversy. But the latest flare-up has a new twist: This time, it’s parents being told what they can and can’t wear on campus.
“I’m almost insulted,” said Tomiko Miller, the mother of a current student, told the Chronicle. “I really think it was discriminatory, the language that was used. It was demeaning. And I’m African American — and if it’s misty outside and I have a hair bonnet on, I don’t see how that’s anyone’s business.”
Brown is African American and a graduate of Madison High School. She told the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday that the dress code had been necessary because “parents were coming in risque clothes.” In her memo to parents, she explained that she felt it was important to have “high standards” and to demonstrate to children how they should dress in an educational setting.
“She said that my headscarf was out of dress code and my dress was too short,” Lewis told the station. Another parent, Rosemary Young, told KTRK that she rushed to the school on Tuesday after her son broke his arm, only for school officials to hand her a copy of the parent dress code because she was still wearing a satin cap. To her, the rules didn’t make any sense.
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