G's school (K-12) mandates uniforms for younger kids but not for HS. There is some loose dress code but generally it was just to wear non-offensive clothing.

Alas, now 95% of the upper school wears athletic leggings, and we keep getting emails from the school that leggins are not pants and to use judgement etc. Alas, they did not ban them and the girls are now

calling them yoga pants. Quiet for a month or so. Another email over the break, but yet nobody has actually banned them. Why do they expect me to fight that battle when they can't be bothered to do it in school

And yes, I realize we are probably less than a month from 'the shorts are too short' emails. Maybe some real dress code is needed, so it can too be ignored? I can't help but just be annoyed

I'd be annoyed too. As far as I can tell, our MS cracked down on dress code way too hard and the HS doesn't crack down at all. C got "coded" in MS for wearing a running tank that was "too tight" when it was

after school hours and she was heading to cross country running practice! Every time I pick her up from HS I see girls in skirts or dresses that barely cover their bums (way shorter than fingertip guideline)

and boys with pants not pulled up and nobody says a thing.

Thus us why we had a dress code revision two years ago. It was anarchy.

It did mostly get rid of leggings

They need to either revise the code or not but I am tired of getting the emails since they seem to be annoyed but not enough to actually address it with the girls.

what happened at P's school was almost entirely because girls were violating the dress code pretty aggressively. And what the then-new US head said was that she felt that pulling girls in and saying,

"Your leggings are out of dress code" was not the answer bc she didn't have a good reason WHY they should be.

(I think she was not fundamentally opposed to girls in leggings)

so they did this year-long dress code review, pulled in student gov't, etc. Came out with a new, more clear, dress code that in some ways was looser (sneakers allowed)

but in some ways tighter (no yoga pants OR leggings OR black pants at all). It's better. I saw my first girl in 18 months in maybe-leggings this morning.

I don't think they want to get into enforcement, because realistically they will forever argue about it. Just went jeans shopping and they are all 'jeggings' and with longer shirt you can't really tell them

apart.

J's school seems to have really relaxed their dress code, and C's does not seem to be protesting the leggings anymore either.

I think they got SO much feedback about it being sexist and unfair and not considerate of our climate (all true).

It is just really hard to get anything that does not look like a legging these days. Though I just saw these wide bell bottom pants in the windows of a fancy boutique. Quite hideous, I think even I would opt

for the leggings over that.