Beachwear dress code crackdown at Redondo Union High School
RUHS Principal Nichole Wesley holds up a PE shirt students are required to change into if they are “dress coded.” Photo Living near the beach in sunny Redondo Beach automatically facilitates the shedding of layers of clothing and the dawning of beachwear undergarments for most people. Not anymore for Redondo high school students. In the past two years, since the hiring of the new principal, Dr. Nichole Wesley, Redondo Union High School has been focusing on putting the kibosh on inappropriate apparel and has started enforcing dress code rules that were previously forgotten and not enforced. “Last year we made it known we would be enforcing the rules,” said Wesley. “Most seniors had a hard time adapting to the new rules, because they weren’t previously enforced. It was hard for them to digest” The new enforcement even spawned a Facebook page petition that resulted in over 600 members protesting the new rules. Soon after, the school forced the page creator to shut down the page – and students were outraged. “I understand why they have a dress code,” said Brooklin Davis, a senior. “But before it was not enforced so people were used to wearing whatever they wanted, and now that it’s…
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