In his article Zero Tolerance and Student Dress Code, Nathan Essex, a professor of educational law and former dean of the College of Education at the University of Memphis, focuses on the issue involving zero tolerance dress codes in the Texas district. Due to dress code violations, more than 700 students were suspended from school in a month causing parents’ to threaten lawsuits and drawing nationwide attention. Regarding the issue, Essex questions the reasonableness of zero-tolerance dress codes, and he claims that fairness is a key element in order to form and carry out dress codes at school. Furthermore, he points out the courts’ inconsistent judgments on dress code cases and he suggests guidelines for establishing dress codes to