Jones v. Day

Citations

• 127 Miss. 136
• 89 So. 809

Syllabus

<p>Schools and Schooi, Districts. Rule requiring pupils to zvear uniforms held not void, and construed.</p> <p>Where the trustees of an agricultural high school adopted a rule that the pupils of the school should wear a uniform of khaki when in attendance upon the school and when visiting public places within five miles of the school, even on Saturdays and Sundays, this rule is not ultra vires, unreasonable, and void, and applies to all students boarding in the dormitory of the school and until their return to the custody of their parents. It applies to those students who live with their parents when they are in the custody of the school authorities; that is to say, after they leave the home of their parents to attend school and until they return to the home after the school is over. It does not apply to those children on holidays when they are within the care, custody, and control of their parents.</p>