Dress Code AHHH! It was official in 2005; the school board of Lima City Schools has adopted a new dress code policy. This policy would be used to crack down on unruly students who refused to follow the already lenient rules. “With a stricter dress code, students will focus more on school than on other students, said Victoria resident Suzanne Helm.” (Cavazos, 1). The Lima City School District, like the Victoria School District, located in Texas, spent many hours designing the new dress code policy. This new policy will test whether the way students dress affects their behavior and how they learn. rather than what someone else is wearing,” Helm said. (Cavazos, 1) The question to be answered is: why don't students follow the established rules regarding the dress code? Some parents and school officials argue that established policies are difficult for students to follow, and others argue that the policies are not strict enough. “More than a year ago, approximately 100 parents and students expressed their outrage at the board meeting saying the dress code was too strict and limited freedom of expression.” (Ford, 1). Unlike the Easton area school board, Lima City Schools left their policy open so that students did not have to wear the same uniform every day if they didn't want to. They have options within the established policy. In the bigger picture, students don't come to school for a fashion show, they come to school for an education. Somewhere along the way some students and parents forgot this simple fact. In some districts, like Wilson County Schools, dress code violations got so out of control that the administration had to threaten suspensions: “During the first six days of the policy change, 184 high school students were suspended ”. (Creech, 1). The Lima Senior High School campus made the same decision as Wilson County Schools. On Tuesday, January 27, 2009, Lima City Schools suspended approximately 164 students for dress code violations. They both knew that their students had trouble following the rules, and since the established punishments didn't affect the students, they did the only thing that got the students' attention. Today, companies, just like schools, are cracking down on the dress code. “The city spent about $45,000 on polo shirts, caps and sweatshirts – green for parks and blue for inspections – bearing the city logo.