Got a hoodie? Well, you might want to hide it or never bring it to campus at all.

Administration jumped off the new semester enforcing a ban on all hooded sweatshirts, commonly known as hoodies.

If a student is caught wearing a hoodie, school policy allows staff members to request it. If a student doesn’t give away the hoodie, staff should escort the student out of the classroom.

Any student caught wearing a hoodie will have it confiscated, according to Principal Brittnee Scott.

Hoodies are a safety concern because they can obscure identification of students.

“We have to be able to identify you as a Trojan,” Ms. Scott said. “You’re in green top and khaki bottoms, I know you belong here.”

She said students can get their hoodies back at the end of the school day.

“Once your hoodie is taken, it is placed in a locked room,” Ms. Scott said. “At the end of the day, we take them out of the room and lay them out on the bricks in the courtyard.”

Many students like eighth-grader Altonio Roberts say they oppose the hoodie ban, which he called “pathetic.”

“Why should we not wear hoodies,” he said. “Some people don’t have school clothes, so they wore hoodies. I think nobody likes the hoodie sweeps.”

Ms. Scott said the increased enforcement is in response to more students coming to JHop out of dress code.