Student Dress Policy

The TDSB Student Dress Policy , formerly the Appropriate Dress Policy, applies to all TDSB schools to establish fair and equitable standards and practices for student dress across the Board.

The policy was developed to provide students with learning environments that are safe, equitable, welcoming and inclusive and recognizes that decisions about dress reflect individual expression of identity, socio-cultural norms, and economic factors and are personal and important factors to a person’s well-being and health.

Some of the key changes in the policy included:

• Renaming the policy to Student Dress Policy (formerly the Appropriate Dress Policy)
• Creating a system-wide dress policy to establish fair and equitable standards in all schools
• Ensuring the student dress code is based on the equity-centred standard and framework consistent with the Board’s commitments
• Focusing on student voice, impact and engagement in development, review and revisions
• Ensuring student engagement in any uniform policy development as well as an equal right to vote in any uniform policy decision
• Enhancing knowledge and awareness of assumptions or stereotypes that are based on or reinforce bias, prejudice and discrimination and may lead to discriminatory application of dress codes
• Providing a continuum of choices for enforcement to remedy any inappropriate dress