- December 16, 2025
Onstage at the Matanzas High School Pirate Theater, in front of a house full of students, teachers and staff, the Flagler County School Board announced that skinny jeans will still be allowed in the district’s mandatory uniforms policy next year.
The issue came up after Sue Dickinson, board chairwoman, explained that she was stopped by a parent who favored the uniforms policy, but disagreed with the denim-pants element. The parent wanted to know, Dickinson relayed, whether the policy would regulate smaller pant sizes or continue to let students wear skinny jeans.
Citing an expired statute of limitations, board member Colleen Conklin spoke for the group by suggesting it’s too late in the policy-making process — the district’s discipline committee is currently working on an implementation plan — to change dress specifics.
Following the skinny jeans discussion, Superintendent Janet Valentine announced the two additional shirt colors chosen by each principal to be allowed at their schools. The hues are as follows:
-Bunnell Elementary has chosen the colors of blue and green.
-Belle Terre Elementary has chosen royal blue and powder blue.
-Old Kings Elementary has chosen royal blue and pink.
-Phoenix Academy has chosen green, with a second color pending.
-Rymfire Elementary has chosen burgundy and beige.
-Wadsworth Elementary has chosen blue and red.
-Buddy Taylor Middle has chosen blue and green.
-Indian Trails Middle has chosen maroon and gold.
-Flagler Palm Coast High has chosen dark green, with a second color currently being surveyed by -students.
-Matanzas High has chosen royal blue, with a second color currently being surveyed by students.
White, black and gray are also allowable everywhere, as permissible district colors. And according to Special Projects Coordinator Sabrina Crosby, staff has already notified every clothes retailer in town — from the Dollar General and Goodwill to Kohl's and Target — supplying them with Flagler’s upcoming dress code.
“They’re now ordering and purchasing for the fall,” Crosby said.
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See the Saturday, Feb. 25, print edition of the Palm Coast Observer for more.
