Resolved: A dress code will have a positive impact on the behavior of middle and elementary school
students.
Principals surveyed
during the 1996-97 school year reported that three "serious or moderate problems in their schools" were student tardiness (40 percent of
principals), student absenteeism or class cutting (25 percent), and physical conflicts among
students (21 percent) (Violence: Principals, 1998, p. 1).