Why Do Entitled Parents And Their Offspring Think They Can Ignore The Rules?

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1945122/Mum-Daughter-suspended-school-mental-health

Turn up with the wrong coloured barnett you are going home sweetie! Ain't rocket is it?

[naomi24]

//Her mum, April said that her daughter spent a shocking 40 percent of term time last year either in isolation or at home due to similar "violations".//

 

The mother needs to get her act together.

[ToraToraTora]

"April said that her daughter will refuse to leave the house unless her hair is dyed red since she dislikes her natural blonde hair" - I'd say she needs a good Daisy up the April. Can anyone on here even concieve of saying something like that to your parents when you were a saucepan?

[Old_Geezer]

Seems strange these similar violations continually crop up. She is having really bad luck.

[pastafreak]

I have mixed feelings about this.

Either daughter...and mum...are taking the mick....or daughter has actual mental health issues that aren't being addressed properly. 

No child should be missing up to 40% of class time.

[Old_Geezer]

No decent parent who do their job/duty would allow it. Maybe it's the parents with a possible mental issue ?

[JJ109]

Where is the father?

[webbo3]

it is not the first time that Ella has suffered a suspension from school. Her mum, April said that her daughter spent a shocking 40 percent of term time last year either in isolation or at home due to similar "violations".

So she does'nt learn a lesson.

 

Although her hair isn't that bad

[DDIL]

If it is written in the school handbook about hair colour, amount of makeup, eyelashes and ear rings, to my mind the parents should ensure that the child adheres to it.

I understand what some are saying about allowing free speech, but there are rules in life and you should learn them at an early age.

[zebo]

When at the chalkface I decided that every school should have 'Discipline is what other people's children need' on the side of the building.

Rules never apply to Moi.

[youngmafbog]

//April said that her daughter will refuse to leave the house unless her hair is dyed red since she dislikes her natural blonde hair. //

Simple then, dye it a natural red or brown.

These two are taking the mick, The mother is probably of the mememe generation who grew up with no one saying no.

Another one destined for 10 kids and a life on the UB40.

[douglas9401]

"Another one destined for 10 kids and a life on the UB40."

Red Red Hair...

[youngmafbog]

^^^ 🤣

[roopower]

I'm not saying what I really want to say or I'd get banned. Compassionate lot, aren't you. You obviously have little regard for mental health issues. We all know you waded through ten feet of snow, clutching a crust after sleeping in a drawer to get to school. Things are very different now and most of you have no idea.

[youngmafbog]

^^ Cobblers.  It's a cruel world out there, best to teach them young.

And anyway this one is simple to sort out, if she doesnt like blonde hair then dye it a normal colour.

[Boto]

16.03 Why shouldn't this child abide by rules?  Lots of people don't like their hair colour but if the rules say natural colour she and her mother should abide by it.  When she leaves school she can have pink and blue striped hair if she wants.  Mental health issues are the 'in' thing at the moment.  Too many do-gooders in this country.

[New Judge]

"Compassionate lot, aren't you. You obviously have little regard for mental health issues."

The child’s hair colour is only one of the rules she wants to ignore – apparently she also insists on wearing false eyelashes because it is said she insists on pulling her natural ones out.

The difficulty is that if this child is allowed to flout the rules on the basis of “mental health issues” many of the other pupils will want to do likewise. Children tend not to appreciate such niceties but simply see one of their fellow pupils being allowed to get away with breaking the rules with which all the others have to comply.

If this child has such complex mental health problems that she is self harming, refusing to eat or go out all because of her apparent dissatisfaction with her appearance, then a mainstream school is perhaps not the place for her.  Schools are difficult enough to run as it is but if the Head Teacher succumbs to the demands of this one child, the difficulties the school faces with discipline will only increase. It is unfair to jeopardise the education, wellbeing and discipline of the rest of the school, regardless of the cause of this particular pupil’s problems.

Mental health problems among children certainly seems to be in vogue recently. Interestingly, parents can be paid between £28 and £184 a week in “Disability Living Allowance” to care for a child with mental health issues, even if those issues have not been formally diagnosed.

I’m sure that has nothing to do with it but it might explain why such issues were not so common when I was at school – we couldn’t afford it.

[ToraToraTora]

bang on judge, let one do it they'll all want to do it. Ain't rocket is it?

[jourdain2]

Rules are rules. Every school I have ever taught in has had an agreement with parents that their offspring will observe school rules. It used to be a written slip, taken home and returned, signed.  Before that, parents were sent a notice to sign. 

However, I quite often saw (particularly Asian) students signing for their parents who couldn't speak or read English.

Not the case here, however.

The school needs to stick it out.

I feel constrained to add that if the last Govt. had not told parents that children did not actually have to physically attend school (the Covid fiaso) then power from schools would be greater and parents more compliant.

[pastafreak]

I want to know why her 'mental health' issues aren't being dealt with. If she's missed so much of her schooling, somethings not right.

I agree with new judge that if this is true, she needs proper care and she won't get that in a mainstream school. If the mother is using this as a means to get £££...then that needs looking into also. It's shocking that money can be given away without a proper diagnosis. Makes you wonder...

Anyone using the system makes it bad for those who have genuine problems. 

[Mozz71]

I hope Mrs Tora utilises your great lettuce picking supplementary does the shop.

 

 "What do you think of this bag of iceberg, dear?"

 "Well, it ain't rocket is it?"