Good job, Wiscasset School Department, for following through on the plan to involve students in the dress code update after last fall’s homecoming dance fiasco, where girls said they were turned away due to exposed shoulders. Shoulder showing at a special dance should not get anyone the cold shoulder.

For sure, dress codes are for adults to determine, and the school committee is doing that, with passage possible Feb. 21, hours after this week’s press time. (Check wiscassetnewspaper.com and next week’s print edition for any outcome.) But giving high schoolers a say showed their opinions are of value, and their input and the changes overall can hopefully help the school department avoid a repeat incident.

Involving students also provides them with lessons in civics and, for both students and adults, is a good exercise in communication.

Week’s positive parting thought: Some recent forecasts for a messy storm kept changing until and even after the precipitation, what little there was, arrived. I am hoping for this week’s anticipated snowstorm to be a dud also. But for those who want snow, it sounds like things will go your way this time. Either way, the changeable temperatures that complicate predictions are, I hope, a sign we are inching toward spring.