Warren County School District officials are hoping the way students dress will add to success in the classroom– and alleviate any potential issues with questionable clothing. On Monday, the district served notice it would be making a greater effort to police what students wear to classes.

“The fundamentals of the dress code are the same as they have been,” district Superintendent Amy Stewart said this week. “Over the last couple of years with the pandemic, enforcement of the dress code has not been a priority.”

Posters showing examples of appropriate and inappropriate clothing will be posted in public areas for students to see.

Getting stricter is not out of line, either. What both Stewart and Eric Mineweaser, director of curriculum, instruction and assessment for the district, are saying is in the last two years COVID was a bigger deal than what students were wearing.

Some public schools in recent years have moved to uniforms. In the 2017-18 school year, 20% of public schools required students to wear them, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. That’s up from just 3% in 1995-1996. According to U.S. News & World Report, school uniforms are so popular these days that large-scale retailers such as Walmart, Target and Amazon now sell their own product lines.

We’re certainly not advocating that direction. But parents and students have been put on notice. District officials will be watching for what’s fashionable — and what’s not.