Back at the beginning of the school term, we had several reports on our Facebook page about pupils at Carisbrooke High School being excluded from classes due to not wearing correct school uniform.
Reports ranged from pupils being excluded from class for wearing pixie boots, having hair too blond or too dark and even for girl wearing a skirt instead of trousers.
As well as being forced to wear yellow sticky notes for the day, some were excluded from classes.
News reaches the Telegraph
The Telegraph is today reporting that the grandmother of one pupil likened the attitude of staff at the school to that of nazis.
After her granddaughter was forced to wear a yellow sticker throughout the day for wearing black canvas shoes, she told them, “The school’s reaction was completely unreasonable. It made me think of Hitler forcing people to wear yellow stars.”
On the subject of the Post-It notes, head teacher David Jeapes, told The Telegraph, “The purpose of issuing the self adhesive note was to stop the student being continually picked up over uniform. Since staff have been instructed to challenge any student without correct uniform, some students choose to “wear” the note, some stick it to their diary planner and get this out every time they are challenged.”
Is exclusion too extreme?
Now, we all know that parents and pupils had at least six weeks to sort out their uniforms, so some might argue there is no excuse to turning up not properly kitted out, but others have questioned whether it’s really necessary to exclude pupils from classes.
Not intending in the slightest to making light of the subject, all this talk of sticky notes jogged our memory of a more interesting use of them.
