Birmingham Pupil Suspended 'for Peaky Blinders Haircut'

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-36269041

Not sure what is wrong here. This little lad looks very neat and tidy to me !

I had hair only marginally longer when I was a lad in the 50's.

[fiction-factory]

She was given the weekend to get it cut. That was the warning. She chose not to and brought him to school.

[fiction-factory]

>Her son had had that haircut for months with no problem.

Really? I don't know how that can be known

[piggynose]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3581465/Boy-eight-suspended-school-Peaky-Blinders-style-short-sides-haircut.html

according to the d.mail online, the child's had this haircut for 7 months before he got suspended. surely this doesn't add up?? is there something i'm missing?

[fiction-factory]

>is there something i'm missing?

Maybe- we only have one side of that story

[naomi24]

Maybe there's something we are all missing.

[andy-hughes]

Talbot - // andy ...on this thread it is me on another thread it could be retrocop or AOG or naomi or divebuddy (where is he?) I have had disagreements with all the above but it never goes on for page after page after page.




'I can explain it, but I can't understand it for you.'

Anyway as you have told us before you will argue until you have declared yourself the winner. So for that reason and also because many posters seem to get suspended when opposing your view I will stop posting on this thread.

I have already stated my intention not to get drawn into a tedious drawn-out pointless irritating spat with you - and you still seem hell bent on provoking one.

I trust you will be as good as your word and take your veiled inferences and provocative attitude elsewhere, to the benefit of this interesting debate.

[Togo]

//Maybe there's something we are all missing.//

I notice from all the press reports that the boy was due to take his maths test and was looking forward to it, he may well be a bright boy then. In view of the NUTs stance regarding tests perhaps this has rubbed his teachers and school up the wrong way? I note that the school had a poor assessment last year and has taken measures to achieve it's latest category of good.

[naomi24]

^Oh gawd! I'm getting to a point where my eyes glaze over and all these copies, pastes, and huffy responses meld into one! I'm going to make a cup of tea.

[naomi24]

If the boy was due to take his maths tests, as Togo says, and the school excluded him, perhaps the assessment of the school as poor was accurate.

[andy-hughes]

Togo - //In view of the NUTs stance regarding tests perhaps this has rubbed his teachers and school up the wrong way? I note that the school had a poor assessment last year and has taken measures to achieve it's latest category of good. //

If I understand you correctly, you infer that the NUT's perceived negative approach to SAT's has caused the teachers to be sufficiently fired up as to suspend a child taking the test.

That is such a stretch of the imagination is to be beyond comprehension.

If I have misinterpreted your post, then I am of course open to correction.

[aelmpvw]

// I'm going to make a cup of tea.//

you're spoiling those builders

[andy-hughes]

Naomi - //If the boy was due to take his maths tests, as Togo says, and the school excluded him, perhaps the assessment of the school as poor was accurate. //

I refer you to my post in response to Togo's assessment - if people think that schools suspend children because they disagree with SATS, or an OFSTED report, then that is a notion that is beyond laughable.

[Togo]

Perhaps in view of the fact that it is a RC school, and the boys mother is described as a single parent, means that her profile doesn't fit either.

[piggynose]

andy, take a chill pill!!

[andy-hughes]

Togo - //Perhaps in view of the fact that it is a RC school, and the boys mother is described as a single parent, means that her profile doesn't fit either. //

That is another sweeping and utterly unfounded observation.

two of my daughters have been single mothers with children educated in Catholic schools, my wife has been a teacher, deputy, and head teacher in Catholic schools and now works as an OFSTED and ISI inspector and their combined experience concludes that there is never even the remotest bias against single parents in the Catholic sector.

You appear to be in danger of following the knee-jerk press reaction to this incident, and seeing shadowy backgrounds to the implementation of a school policy that simply do not exist.

[andy-hughes]

piggynose - //andy, take a chill pill!! //

I am, and remain, chilled - thank you for your concern.

[naomi24]

andy-hughes, // if people think that schools suspend children because they disagree with SATS, or an OFSTED report, then that is a notion that is beyond laughable.//

You misunderstand entirely. I was suggesting that a school that excludes a child over a haircut shortly before he is due to sit exams fully deserves to be assessed as 'poor'.

[andy-hughes]

Naomi - my apologies, and thank you for your explanation.

However, I would suggest that if OFSTED believe that the uniform policy was enforced appropriately - and they may do with access to the information that none of us have had - then they would not mark the school down for it.

[Togo]

Haha accused of knee jerk reaction by a.h., who spends his time doing an impression of a space hopper in mine field.

[piggynose]

thats good to hear, as your input is very important. i just wish sometimes you wouldn't take things so personal, to heart so to speak. oh well i've had my say.