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Mesquite ISD updates professional dress code
By Kenny Green, Staff Writer
The school board unanimously approved three changes to the professional dress code on Monday. The district used a committee of 14 professionals to determine any changes that should be made to the code.
As part of the changes approved, female employees are now allowed to wear cap sleeved tops without having to cover them with a jacket. Cap sleeves just barely come over the shoulder and in the past a jacket or jacket-shirt was required to wear these types of tops.
Female staff members are now also allowed to wear open-toed dress shoes that use a toe strap as long as they have a dress appearance and a dress heel. In the past all shoes that used a toe strap were prohibited from being worn. Flip flop style shoes are still prohibited.
Under the new professional dress code changes approved Monday, male staff members will now be allowed to have neatly groomed facial hair.
“I told the board in work session that I almost shaved my beard off for this meeting today just so everybody wouldn’t be staring at me during this discussion,” MISD trustee Gary Bingham said.
As a guideline added to the new policy, the facial hair must be moderate in style and fully established by the start of school or upon return from an extended break.
“We had a little bit of concern about preventing someone who just got up in the morning and didn’t have time to shave, didn’t want to shave, and he had the stubbled look, the five o’clock shadow,” Frazier said. “We wanted to do something that would prevent that, and so we came up with the guideline.”
The policy changes will not affect the student code of conduct and there are no imminent plans to make changes.
Elected trustees sworn in, board has new leadership
MISD school board trustees Randy Dobbs and Phil Appenzeller were sworn in on Monday during the regular school board meeting.
Dobbs is beginning his ninth term of service on the board and was selected to serve as the board’s vice president as part of the reorganization approved during the meeting.
Appenzeller is beginning his first term of service on the board. Appenzeller
Also elected to serve as leadership on the board was Dr. Cary Tanamachi, selected to be president of the board and Kevin Carbo selected as the board’s secretary.
The following are comments from the readers.
In no way do they represent the view of Starlocalnews.com
In no way do they represent the view of Starlocalnews.com
R.B. wrote on Jun 13, 2009 5:50 PM:
" So this is what our tax dollars are being wasted on? Please... How about updating the STAFF ITSELF? Come on people, allowing the district to needlessly derail the careers of some of their best employees, oughta be more important than making SILLY, MINOR changes to the employee dress code! The district should be spending the summer reviewing all the misinformed decisions that they made over the past year and a half. Loyal employees had their careers RUINED by those decisions, for crying out loud! WAKE UP MISD!!! QUIT DODGING AROUND THE IMPORTANT THINGS. Try spending your time learning how to be PROFESSIONAL AND RESPECTABLE managers for a change and quit jerking everyone around. "
Whatever... wrote on Jun 17, 2009 3:05 PM:
" MISD is NOT a great place to work for! This district needs a SERIOUS overhaul! And I am a former employee who got smart a few years ago and got out! "
hmmmm wrote on Jun 18, 2009 6:33 AM:
" This dress code is for professionals is such a joke. If you are one of the favorites of the administration, you can wear whatever you want. If you are not a one of the chosen ones, you have to follow it. There is no consistency with the dress code, or with anything else. But if you go to happy hour with your administrators, you can do whatever you want at your school. "
R.B. wrote on Jun 18, 2009 11:01 AM:
" Kelly,
MISD "used" to be a good place to work, but in the last couple of years of my 18 year career with the district, things changed for the worse. Allowing Coach Halpin to retire with benefits, rather than immediate termination, was the first indication of trouble. Then they started derailing other employees careers, by unnecessarily changing job descriptions to the point that the position was not what the employee wanted to do for a living. As a result of that fiasco, good employees either quit in disgust or got fired. I could go on and on, but that's enough for a start. Consider yourself lucky, if they haven't ruined your career yet. It'll only be a matter of time, unless the lame-duck administration is overhauled. "
MISD "used" to be a good place to work, but in the last couple of years of my 18 year career with the district, things changed for the worse. Allowing Coach Halpin to retire with benefits, rather than immediate termination, was the first indication of trouble. Then they started derailing other employees careers, by unnecessarily changing job descriptions to the point that the position was not what the employee wanted to do for a living. As a result of that fiasco, good employees either quit in disgust or got fired. I could go on and on, but that's enough for a start. Consider yourself lucky, if they haven't ruined your career yet. It'll only be a matter of time, unless the lame-duck administration is overhauled. "
Ann Yates wrote on Jul 2, 2009 9:30 PM:
" I suspect MISD had to pay the City of Garland for the five graduation exercises for 2009. Since the City of Mesquite has so much invested in the Rodeo Arena, why didn't they use that facility for all the services and save us taxpayers several dollars??? Furthermore, MISD seems to promote poverty by giving breakfasts, lunches, inoculations, etc to "less fortunates", thus getting the trash of the metroplex. "
EILEEN wrote on Jul 3, 2009 3:51 PM:
" I do not work for them nor ever considered it but I believe this to be such a silly waste of taxpayer dollars. The dress code should be common sense. If a female walks into work looking like a hooker- put her to the curb. If a man comes into work looking as if he just got out of bed- let him go back to bed (without pay). Americas economy is in such a struggle, yet, people want to discuss who needs to wear what?? I can not even believe that this newspaper wrote such an article! I agree with RB and others who believe this to be CHILDISH! "
Kelley wrote on Jul 4, 2009 9:10 AM:
" I have worked for MISD for 17 years and have LOVED every minute of it. Great place to work! "
DS wrote on Jul 4, 2009 8:24 PM:
" I think if they are going to make the students have an appropriate dress code the least they can do is have the teachers follow it as well! I have seen teachers comeout of the building dressed worse then the students and would have never thought they were teachers if my children had not confirmed they were. MISD needs a lot of changes made. And yes, the graduations should have been held in Mesquite and NOT ON A SUNDAY!!! Sunday is a holy day for most of us.
--a concerned parent "
--a concerned parent "
R.B. wrote on Jul 6, 2009 11:17 AM:
" Sorry to burst your bubble, Kelley, but MISD is no longer a great place to work. Have you been doing the same job for all 17 years, and is it what you always knew you wanted to do? If so, then you're a prime candidate on MISD's list of people who will soon get promoted into something completely different, and you'll hate it because it means you no longer get to do what you always wanted. That's the reality of the MISD today. Do yourself a favor and RUN away from MISD. Otherwise it's only a matter of time before MISD breaks your heart and damages your self esteem beyond repair. I know this, as I was a victim of the stubborn, utterly disrespectful MISD administration. "
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