School shoots itself in the foot..

[Infinite Chaos]

A schoolgirl was put into isolation and pulled from lessons after wearing a Union Flag dress to mark her
British heritage on school culture day.
Courtney Wright, 12, a straight-A student, turned up to class in a Spice Girls-style dress and wrote a piece
about British history and traditions to mark the occasions.
In a permission letter sent to parents, it (Bilton School) said the day was "designed to promote inclusion,
understanding, and appreciation of different backgrounds, traditions and heritages".​

Keir Starmer responds after schoolgirl put in school isolation over Flag dress

A schoolgirl was thrown into isolation after turning up to school in a Union Flag dress.

www.dailyrecord.co.uk

You have to wonder if the school did this deliberately to drum up anger on the populist supporting UK websites and news shows like GBNews or someone at the school was genuinely stupid enough to invite kids to celebrate their heritage and then shame the kids who wanted to celebrate their English or Welsh history.

Words fail me.

 

[SNOWFLAKE]

When I first read this headline I thought it was a school in a Red State in the U.S.
Shocked to see this happen in a European school, but I guess there is a trend now.

 

[Allan]

Seems like the school has a strict dress code.

Courtney's dad Stuart hit out at the school's hypocrisy and claimed other pupils with St George's flags and Welsh flags were also turned away from the school gates. He said: "Courtney was so embarrassed and couldn’t understand what she’d done wrong. It’s the school who have made it political and it went against everything the event was being held for. She chose the dress and wrote the piece off her own back.

 

[Allan]

Yeah they have a strict dress code - uniform.

Uniform - Bilton School

Uniform - Bilton School

www.biltonschool.co.uk

 

[Allan]

Also she wasn't "thrown into isolation" as the article hysterically shrieks.

She waited in the reception area for her parent.

She was then forced to sit in reception until her dad could collect her.

What a shit tabloid article. British tabloids are the worst.

Maybe Kier can find something better to do. He attended Reigate Grammar School which has a similar policy...

 

[Infinite Chaos]

Seems like the school has a strict dress code.

Most UK schools have a strict dress code but they relax them for days like this and any letters to students will state this. My daughter is at a Grammar school and they tend to have the strictest rules outside of the fee-paying schools we have here but they all relax rules for things like World Book Day etc.

The school has apparently since apologised but this was completely unnecessary if whoever turned this girl and others celebrating British heritage hadn't been turned away.

 

[Allan]

Most UK schools have a strict dress code but they relax them for days like this and any letters to students will state this. My daughter is at a Grammar school and they tend to have the strictest rules outside of the fee-paying schools we have here but they all relax rules for things like World Book Day etc.

The school has apparently since apologised but this was completely unnecessary if whoever turned this girl and others celebrating British heritage hadn't been turned away.

This "straight A student" should have gotten permission in advance to be out of uniform.

 

[Mr Person]

"Courtney Wright, 12, a straight-A student, turned up to class in a Spice Girls-style dress"​

Spice Girls? That *is* unacceptable.

/vomit

This "straight A student" should have gotten permission in advance to be out of uniform.

Eh... consider it civil disobedience lite. The resulting bruhaha shines a light on some absurd over-strictness and then, often enough, the strictness softens.

 

[Infinite Chaos]

This "straight A student" should have gotten permission in advance to be out of uniform.

Here's the letter sent to the kids and parents beforehand

You could argue that she should have dressed as a Morris Dancer but the letter explicitly talks about attire that reflects nationality

 

[dmpi]

It's bad enough colleges have been taken over by politics. But schools should be about learning course material. The body of knowledge keeps growing. Kids today are required to know more stuff than ever before. Politics is an unnecessary distraction.

 

[Allan]

It's bad enough colleges have been taken over by politics. But schools should be about learning course material. The body of knowledge keeps growing. Kids today are required to know more stuff than ever before. Politics is an unnecessary distraction.

I assume you never took a Civics class then.

 

[Sweden]

This "straight A student" should have gotten permission in advance to be out of uniform.

Read the story, as you so often advise others to do. The entire school had permission to choose what to wear on the day in question.

 

[Juin]

Most UK schools have a strict dress code but they relax them for days like this and any letters to students will state this. My daughter is at a Grammar school and they tend to have the strictest rules outside of the fee-paying schools we have here but they all relax rules for things like World Book Day etc.

The school has apparently since apologised but this was completely unnecessary if whoever turned this girl and others celebrating British heritage hadn't been turned away.

On a personal level I say the British have much to be proud of. It's contributions to science, technology, literature is gigantic, towering over all other contributions, compared to its size. It was a mistake for the school to do that. That is if it was a mistake. I suspect it was just a manifestation of a larger woke culture bent on western guilt. It's unfortunate in the broader sense also because it bolsters the grievances of the far right

 

[Sweden]

On a personal level I say the British have much to be proud of. It's contributions to science, technology, literature is gigantic, towering over all other contributions, compared to its size. It was a mistake for the school to do that. That is if it was a mistake. I suspect it was just a manifestation of a larger woke culture bent on western guilt. It's unfortunate in the broader sense also because it bolsters the grievances of the far right

Good. Though the moderate right also have plenty of grievances of their own.

 

[Infinite Chaos]

I suspect it was just a manifestation of a larger woke culture bent on western guilt.

There were many, many times in my career that I gave students liberty on a particular subject and then was very surprised at the direction they took on that. Personally, I think it was a simple miscalculation of any direction kids might take the opportunity to celebrate their own culture and heritage and this was compounded by over-reaction, probably by someone inexperienced in such projects and events.
That person stupidly was not expecting British kids to want to take part - however all you have to do is look at what happens on World Book Day to see how much all kids enjoy the chance to dress up and celebrate their individuality.

Sounds like the school have learned a hard lesson this weekend. "Western guilt" is putting an angle on this that shouldn't exist.

 

[Evilroddy]

A schoolgirl was put into isolation and pulled from lessons after wearing a Union Flag dress to mark her
British heritage on school culture day.
Courtney Wright, 12, a straight-A student, turned up to class in a Spice Girls-style dress and wrote a piece
about British history and traditions to mark the occasions.
In a permission letter sent to parents, it (Bilton School) said the day was "designed to promote inclusion,
understanding, and appreciation of different backgrounds, traditions and heritages".​

Keir Starmer responds after schoolgirl put in school isolation over Flag dress

A schoolgirl was thrown into isolation after turning up to school in a Union Flag dress.

www.dailyrecord.co.uk

You have to wonder if the school did this deliberately to drum up anger on the populist supporting UK websites and news shows like GBNews or someone at the school was genuinely stupid enough to invite kids to celebrate their heritage and then shame the kids who wanted to celebrate their English or Welsh history.

Words fail me.

Infinite Chaos:

There might be an alternative explanation for why and how this fiasco happened. Bilton has masters and mistresses (teachers?) specificaly trained and tasked with protection students from the vicissitudes of modern life listed on the Safeguarding page of the school's website. I draw your attention to the fifth person on the lift linked below - (the fourth alternate). Could this be the reason for this epic cluster-frock?

Safeguarding - Bilton School

Safeguarding - Bilton School

www.biltonschool.co.uk

Cheers and be well.
Evilroddy

 

[Binary_Digit]

Infinite Chaos:

There might be an alternative explanation for why and how this fiasco happened. Bilton has masters and mistresses (teachers?) specificaly trained and tasked with protection students from the vicissitudes of modern life listed on the Safeguarding page of the school's website. I draw your attention to the fifth person on the lift linked below - (the fourth alternate). Could this be the reason for this epic cluster-frock?

Safeguarding - Bilton School

Safeguarding - Bilton School

www.biltonschool.co.uk

Cheers and be well.
Evilroddy

I may be be missing your point. The 5th name just looks like all the others to me. What's special about it?

If there's any suspicion that what she wore was deemed "inappropriate" for school, then it's hard for me to see why someone would think that:

 

[Sven Karma]

Shame there wasn't an American child there with a MAGA cap on, the school would probably have spontaneously combusted.

 

[Infinite Chaos]

Infinite Chaos:

There might be an alternative explanation for why and how this fiasco happened. Bilton has masters and mistresses (teachers?) specificaly trained and tasked with protection students from the vicissitudes of modern life listed on the Safeguarding page of the school's website. I draw your attention to the fifth person on the lift linked below - (the fourth alternate). Could this be the reason for this epic cluster-frock?

Safeguarding - Bilton School

Safeguarding - Bilton School

www.biltonschool.co.uk

Cheers and be well.
Evilroddy

I'm really not seeing anything jump out to me mate, Safeguarding here in British schools is about looking for signs of child abuse, child neglect, sexual abuse and violence. It would be a completely different person who would have made a fool of themselves and objected to a British child wearing clothing with the flag on it.

 

[PeteEU]

When I first read this headline I thought it was a school in a Red State in the U.S.
Shocked to see this happen in a European school, but I guess there is a trend now.

Wow there.. England is not in Europe...they wanted to leave Europe so...

And I kid you not...it is so bad that when statistics are done now days, places like Albania, Norway or Switzerland are included in statistics, but the UK is just blank hole of comparative statistical information...

 

[PeteEU]

I may be be missing your point. The 5th name just looks like all the others to me. What's special about it?

If there's any suspicion that what she wore was deemed "inappropriate" for school, then it's hard for me to see why someone would think that:

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For a British school that is slutty whore attire. Remember many/some schools forbid girls to wear anything but skirts, or force boys to wear long pants in hot weather...school uniforms and meglomaniac school administrators go hand in hand.

A few years ago, there was a case where boys were not allowed to wear shorts. So the boys protested by wear skirts, because no where in the rules did it state that was not allowed. Oh and the whole thing became a case because it was boiling hot at the time. Well at first the boys were suspended but then the media got wind of it and the parents finally grew a pair.

 

[PeteEU]

There were many, many times in my career that I gave students liberty on a particular subject and then was very surprised at the direction they took on that. Personally, I think it was a simple miscalculation of any direction kids might take the opportunity to celebrate their own culture and heritage and this was compounded by over-reaction, probably by someone inexperienced in such projects and events.
That person stupidly was not expecting British kids to want to take part - however all you have to do is look at what happens on World Book Day to see how much all kids enjoy the chance to dress up and celebrate their individuality.

Sounds like the school have learned a hard lesson this weekend. "Western guilt" is putting an angle on this that shouldn't exist.

Hehe I remember my school's arc nemesis growing up in Saudi Arabia. I was in a British International school, but there was also a real British School with the whole uniform stuff. We were free to wear what we wanted, but those poor sods at the British school had to wear those awful hot uniforms...except a couple of times a year when they had some sort of special day or came over to us (we were the bigger campus) and did some stuff with us.

Ironically those 2 schools are now merged, but as far as I know.. no uniforms.

 

[Infinite Chaos]

And I kid you not...it is so bad that when statistics are done now days, places like Albania, Norway or Switzerland are included in statistics, but the UK is just blank hole of comparative statistical information...

We still have the same statistics agencies, the Office of National Statistics hasn't gone away - maybe it's the EU refusing to include UK statistics?

For a British school that is slutty whore attire.

Good god man, her dress covered her knees. It's only the British flag that upsets you so much. That's a pretty modest skirt - you're triggered by the Union Jack.

Depending on the school, a lot of girls wear school skirts so revealing they barely cover their bottoms. The regulations only say "skirt" in many schools - nothing about how short. Other schools ask for skirts that go down to knees.

@PeteEU, you say you aren't hostile to anything British but that post proved you are. You would be just as bad as the admins at that school.

 

[PeteEU]

We still have the same statistics agencies, the Office of National Statistics hasn't gone away - maybe it's the EU refusing to include UK statistics?

Nope, it is almost all charts and statistics made by independent sources too. Especially love the "compare Europe" ones and it is without the UK, but includes places like Russia and Albania. And of course you have statistically offices..even one of those modern website thingies!

Good god man, her dress covered her knees. It's only the British flag that upsets you so much. That's a pretty modest skirt - you're triggered by the Union Jack.

I am not triggered. She looks good for what she is trying to represent. What I am refering to is the attitude of certain/many school boards/leaders. We don't know if her school is a crackpot one or not.

Depending on the school, a lot of girls wear school skirts so revealing they barely cover their bottoms. The regulations only say "skirt" in many schools - nothing about how short. Other schools ask for skirts that go down to knees.

@PeteEU, you say you aren't hostile to anything British but that post proved you are. You would be just as bad as the admins at that school.

Again you prove point. Depending on the school..is this one of the Christian jihadist schools or a far more liberal one..some schools ban boy from wearing shorts, others do not.

And I am not hostile at all.. I am in fact against school uniforms and idiotic regulations on what they can wear. We agree fully on this...

 

[Evilroddy]

@Binary_Digit and @Infinite Chaos

The safeguarding master's name is Mr. Bean - Mr. Jonathon Bean.

It was a moment of levity and not a deep critique of the educational system in the UK. This was a screw up and a wee girl spent three hours sitting in an administrative office until her ol'da came to pick her up. It was an unpleasant experience for the young girl who did nothing wrong and I can imagine that it was infuriating to the family as they watch the discomfort and confusion as their daughter works to process the experience of this fiasco. But mistakes and public apologies are part of real life. We are dealing with imperfect human beings (not Beans) and stupid things on occasion happen which harm others. We figure out what happened, why it happened, how to avoid the mistake in the future and learn from such minor to medium mistakes. Then we move on.

Cheers and be well.
Evilroddy.