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The Jensen Education school group introduces a dress code in its elementary schools. According to the elementary school principal, certain styles of clothing have connections to gang formation, which can lead to anxiety at school.
At Jensen Primary School in Gothenburg, the group’s new dress code is presented in a letter from the principal to the students’ parents. In the letter, the director highlights, among other things, soft pants and fanny packs as undesirable, since such attributes, according to the school, are linked to party culture, exclusion and crime, writes Göteborgs-Posten.
Jensen Education runs primary schools in nine Swedish cities. According to the principal of the Group’s primary school, Mats Rosén, they have introduced clothing recommendations in all their schools, but the specific letter on soft pants and fanny packs only applies in Gothenburg.
Creates anxiety
The general recommendation is stated to be more general, without concrete examples.
– We want to train students to face reality, as they adapt their attire to different situations. The students together with the teachers and the school management must reason their way towards what suits each school, says Mats Rosén to TT.
Through dress code recommendations, they want to get away from what are called “gang styles,” which Mats Rosén believes can generate anxiety in schools.
– The problem is that some attributes and styles of clothing are associated with certain groups, and the focus is more on the style of clothing in the group than in the studies. It can definitely create insecurity if there are groups of students who dress in a certain way.
Voluntary recommendation
According to the National Education Agency, Swedish schools cannot require students to wear school uniforms. And recommendations at Jensen Elementary Schools are voluntary.
Mats Rosén does not want to specify the types of clothing in question.
– It may look different. They can be of different styles. It’s more about what the environment will be like at school. If a group of students comes in where the focus is more on how they dress and what clothes they have, than on school work, we want to get away from that.
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