Things got a little heated Tuesday night at the Walton County School Board meeting.

Board members addressed Freeport High School and Freeport Middle School's proposed uniform policy.

School officials mailed out order forms to students in mid-June saying the schools will be implementing a new uniform policy.

Students would be required to wear shirts with the school's logos on them.
But the school board has to approve it first.

The school board passed the uniform policy three to two after parents spoke out against it.

The parents told us they are in favor of a uniform policy but didn't think Freeport High School Principal Shirley Foster went about it the right way.

The parents said she sent the letters out without getting school board approval to implement a uniform policy.

Foster says the only reason she sent out the letters was to prepare students for the policy change which will take effect August 24th.

As it stands now, students will be required to purchase the five-dollar t-shirts and wear them during the school day.

"I think their ways of going about implementing them other than the way they deceived the parents. We got the letter it said send cash or money order. Here's your order form and it never told us what the actual dress policy was," Michele Reynolds, a concerned parent said.

"We knew that the handbook wasn't going to be approved until July. So it's a chance to give them some time that they wouldn't go ahead and buy some expensive clothes in June. Some people do some people don't. That was our reasoning giving them advanced notice," Foster, Freeport High School principal said.

There is another issue as well. The company that's selling the shirts "Coach's Corner" is ran allegedly by employees of the school district. Which is in violation of the school board's conflict of interest policy.

As a result, Superintendent Anderson will be reviewing the issue and will report her findings next Tuesday at a special meeting.

Also Freeport's principal Shirley Foster will try and come up with a plan to get the shirts at a much lower rate for the students.