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Post by SarahHound on Jul 19, 2013 18:53:58 GMT
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Post by cazypops on Jul 19, 2013 18:58:23 GMT
That's disgusting behaviour by the school. Not just for reading her private mail but also for treating an 11 year old like a criminal.
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Post by migsy on Jul 19, 2013 19:08:44 GMT
Crikey! sure it's a school and not a prison? Poor kid! What rotten stone hearted teachers.Hope the mother said she couldn't possibly drive as she had had a drink.
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Post by teegiebear on Jul 19, 2013 21:31:13 GMT
That's shocking!
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Post by doggiesrule28280 on Jul 19, 2013 22:29:44 GMT
I did that on a trip! In year 6, we went away with school for two nights and we weren't allowed sweets but I brought loads! Our school is odd, people are allowed to have rainbow coloured hair yet if we wear winter boots in snow we will be Excluded! The other day I was wearing some sparkly loveheart earrings (studs not danglies) and I was forced to take them out!
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Post by judypops on Jul 19, 2013 23:11:22 GMT
That's absolutely atrocious! Total breech of privacy. In my school you can't wear high top converse as apparently they are 'boots'. Also you can only have purple or red dyed hair, which is ridiculous. Also my old prinicpal had given a girl detention for wearing a pink bra under her white shirt and not wearing her jumper!
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Post by migsy on Jul 20, 2013 13:00:52 GMT
I believe in a strict dress code,as students can't then outdo each other,and some will always try to push boundaries,giving a bad impression of the school.But children have always enjoyed the sneaky sweet feasts,it's always gone on,with teachers feigning annoyance,and usually playing up to the fun by demanding a share of the sweets as 'punishment'.
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Post by cazypops on Jul 20, 2013 15:52:09 GMT
Just another thought! Did the school have something to hide in the first place that they didn't want the kids writing home about that they felt it necessary to read the letters in the first place?
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Post by SarahHound on Jul 20, 2013 16:23:05 GMT
I agree migsy, dress codes are there for a reason and I fully support them.
However sneaking a chocolate bar on a school trip is something most kids will do at some point in their life (I know I did several times!).I think they took it too far, or else, like cazy says, perhaps there was more to the story than meets the eye if the teachers were opening letters before sending them.
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Post by BorderTerrier on Jul 20, 2013 17:23:05 GMT
That's stupid!
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Post by migsy on Jul 20, 2013 20:58:45 GMT
Yes,the opening of childrens letters home is definitely bizarre.If I was one of the parents,I would certainly be wanting an explanation.
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Post by Pawsforthought on Jul 20, 2013 21:46:06 GMT
How abominable! I went to what some people in the area call a 'posh school' (though I don't think of it like that!) that had a very high reputation. We all respected the uniform rules because the teachers respected us! We were allowed sweets on trips, in their minds it's our parents who should be the people deciding what we should and shouldn't eat. We weren't allowed them in lessons ever, or fizzy drinks, but a trip was a special, fun, rewarding time in which we enjoyed ourselves and the teaches made sure we were safe!
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Post by doggiesrule28280 on Jul 21, 2013 1:36:12 GMT
I think uniform is a good idea because if we didn't have it everyone would wear designer clothes which majority can't afford. For school in winter, I wear black dr martens, the Shoes not boots. This is purely because i can't fit any shoes into my locker, so I need winter shoes with grips. Wheni didn't have them I fell at least twice a day on the ice!
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Post by Pawsforthought on Jul 21, 2013 14:18:07 GMT
I think uniform is a good idea because if we didn't have it everyone would wear designer clothes which majority can't afford. For school in winter, I wear black dr martens, the Shoes not boots. This is purely because i can't fit any shoes into my locker, so I need winter shoes with grips. Wheni didn't have them I fell at least twice a day on the ice! I agree with the wearing of uniforms too. I went to a school where everyone else had a lot more money than I (my grandparents paid) and I would not have been able to afford expensive clothes for each day of the year lol On a side note, I wore DM boots to sixth form every day, and it became something I was known for! At the end of the year, at prom, the teachers did this joke thing, for example 'cheekiest student' and there was a category for who adhered the least to the dress code, in which I was a candidate for 'DMs and piercings!' heh heh.
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Post by BorderTerrier on Jul 21, 2013 16:17:11 GMT
If uniforms were not worn, people would get teased if they could not afford the designer clothes everyone else had. Non-uniform makes people stand out amongst the rest, which many people would not enjoy.
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