New headmaster sends dozens of kids home on his first day at school.

Tommy Monk wrote:


See... you're not so sylly after all...!!!





Have a green from me too!

Syl wrote:I do agree schools should have a uniform, I have said that all along.
I just don't agree with the heavy handed, despotic, irresponsible  way this new head has dealt with it.

magica wrote:I like uniforms in school.  Atleast they all wear the same, some parents are richer than others and can afford the latest styles or designer wear, making the others feel inferior.

This way they all have the same to wear, its cheaper for parents and looks good. Schools must have some rules.

nicko wrote:First day at a new School and this unfeeling idiot causes heartache for many.
Why didn't he let them come into School and, at the end of the day send a letter warning parents about the rules and given them a week to get it right.They may have had a letter about the rules before but some are genuinely "broke" and just can't find money at the drop of an hat.

Major wrote:There are parents who for whichever reason cannot find the money for a exact/ complete school uniform at a specific time.
Some poorer children wear same clothes for school and out of school hours.
Some minguz/muntuz spend benefit  money intended to help children on other thingz, hardly the fault of a child.
The headmaster should be taught a LESSON himself,
6 of the best, aerosol..

blackie333 wrote:

Jules wrote:
That's a strange post. On what do you base that assertion? Were your kids bullied in school?
Dunno why you quoted me either, as your reply has nothing to do with my post.
I guess you quoted the wrong post.

Where do some of these idiots think the cheapest school uniforms come from?
It must be third world countries where slave labour is common practice and often produced by kids deprived of any schooling.
People just dont care where they come from if the price is cheap enough.
Uncaring gits! Think about it you dimwits, you cant buy stuff that's ultra cheap unless someone in the world is being exploited.
I wear copies as well but at least I feel guilty and I dont have kids.
Admit it, you dont care if a kid on the other side of the world works 15 hours a day for a pittance as long


as you can buy your kid a uniform for next to nothing do you?

Syl wrote:

blackie333 wrote:

Bullying goes on in schools that allow everyone to dress as they like because kids pick on some for not wearing the latest fashions but the same
happens with the labels in school uniforms as well.
Some are really expensive and some cheap and the bullies know a good make from a non descript maker.
Uniforms change nothing in my opinion!

Bullying should be clamped down on in schools as soon as it starts.... a bully will bully over anything, they pick their targets no matter what they may be wearing.
What uniforms do do is put all kids on the same level, which encourages a sense of all pulling together...ie unity....ie uniforms.

blackie333 wrote:

Syl wrote:

Bullying should be clamped down on in schools as soon as it starts.... a bully will bully over anything, they pick their targets no matter what they may be wearing.
What uniforms do do is put all kids on the same level, which encourages a sense of all pulling together...ie unity....ie uniforms.

I used to take the pee out of a really fat guy Syl for no reason really as did everyone else but I wish I could turn the clock back as
i'd never even think of doing it now

Syl wrote:

Tommy Monk wrote:

All the kids had clothes... expensive tracksuits and trainers were what some turned up in...


Others needed only get other small parts of uniform like a long skirt or a correct colour pair of socks... very low cost to put right.


Where is your evidence that any of these were flouting uniform regulations because they were too poor to supply it...?


Plus... any parents struggling to pay for all uniform requirements are able to notify school beforehand and get special arrangements...

Parents gave interviews pointing out  the minor discrepancies in the school uniform that had got the children  barred.....so SOME may have had expensive trainers, certainly not all.

So you think a  skirt that isn't quite  long enough or the wrong colour of socks should get a child banned from entering school?

Hartsdown Academy is a poor scoring school compared to the national average, poor scoring schools are usually in poorer areas, so the chances of some of the families being poor is high.
Where is YOUR evidence that they could all afford the uniform?

In England you will possibly get help with buying school uniform if you are already claiming certain benefits, not everyone is...so your last sentence is wrong.

Tommy Monk wrote:Some parents are dafter than the kids they are responsible for!

magica wrote:I like uniforms in school.  Atleast they all wear the same, some parents are richer than others and can afford the latest styles or designer wear, making the others feel inferior.

This way they all have the same to wear, its cheaper for parents and looks good. Schools must have some rules.