AHHH Dress Code!It was official in 2005; The Lima City Schools Board of Education has adopted a new dress code policy. This policy would be used to crack down on unruly students who refused to follow 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 the way they learn. rather than what someone else is wearing,” Helm said. (Cavazos, 1) The question that needs to be answered is why don't students follow the established rules regarding the dress code? Some parents and school officials would say that established policies are difficult for students to follow, while others would say that the policies are not strict enough. “More than a year ago, about 100 parents and students expressed outrage at the board meeting, saying the dress code was too strict and limited free speech.” (Ford, 1). Unlike the Easton Area School Board, Lima City Schools has left its policy open so students are not forced to wear the same uniform every day if they don't want to. They have options within established policy. In a broader perspective, students don't come to school for a fashion show, they come to school for an education. At some point, some students and parents forgot this simple fact. In some districts, like Wilson County Schools, dress code violations got so out of hand that the administration had to threaten suspensions: “In 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 were having difficulty following the rules, and since the sanctions imposed did not affect the students, they did the only thing that caught their attention. Today, businesses, like schools, are cracking down on dress code. code. “The city spent approximately $45,000 on polo shirts, caps and fleeces – green for parks and light blue for inspections – which bear the city logo..