I would ask your school or the teacher, just to be sure, but I'll tell you from my experience. For my CNA class, we didn't wear scrubs until we went to clinicals, which was the last week of class. We just wore normal clothes to class. As for the shoes, it didn't matter if they had laces or not, they just had to be leather and not canvas. I had white leather, slip on Keds. And, same with the scrubs, we only had to wear these shoes to clinicals. Hope this helps!! :)