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Parents Furious After School Sends 50 Children Home For 'Wrong' Dress Code

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Huffington Post UK   First Posted: 02/11/11 18:38 GMT Updated: 02/11/11 18:38 GMT

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Parents are up in arms after around 50 children were apparently "segregated" and sent home from school for not conforming to the dress code.

The Beacon School in Banstead, Surrey, reportedly sent the students home after they returned from half-term on Monday.

Pupils whose parents could not be reached were kept in "isolation" and not allowed to go to classes.

On its website, the school states it is "is very proud of the high standards of appearance created by our students wearing school uniform" and it "expects" students to wear the specified clothing.

"Students should avoid extremes of fashion in terms of the uniform or hairstyles."

But one parent told a local paper it was "pathetic" her 15-year-old son had been sent home from school.

"As far as I'm concerned he's not gone in with pink hair but a pair of black shoes."

Her son was sent home for wearing black plimsolls, rather than the leather-style shoes specified in the school's uniform criteria.

"What's more important, our kids' education or the material of their shoes?" she added.

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Parents are up in arms after around 50 children were apparently "segregated" and sent home from school for not conforming to the dress code. The Beacon School in Banstead, Surrey, reportedly sent t...
Parents are up in arms after around 50 children were apparently "segregated" and sent home from school for not conforming to the dress code. The Beacon School in Banstead, Surrey, reportedly sent t...
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wesdfs
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04:09 AM on 11/04/2011
this is all brain washing the same tactics military uses--I can see using a dress code to some extent because of gang problems---but this is rediculas
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wyndchas78
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08:15 PM on 11/03/2011
You send your kid to a school in a UNIFORM. They tell you what to wear from head to toe (like the military). Any deviation from the uniform results in a disciplinary action.

If this was lets say a financial problem for the parents who couldn't afford the leather-style shoe. They should appeal to the school.
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11:22 AM on 11/03/2011
The fact that they were in the wrong type of shoes or uniform, or had pink hair, does not prevent them from learning, I think the school over reacted and should have sent a letter to the parents before taking the action it did.
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European1919
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07:54 AM on 11/03/2011
Children who find support from their parents in not obeying school rules are probably likely to not obey the rules of society later on.
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KelaMa
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05:56 AM on 11/03/2011
Parents and communities usually have a hand in dress codes and anyway, if you send your kid to a school you are agreeing to its rules. I don't know about Britain but in the U.S. it is almost always a school-community council which sets uniform rules. We have the same problem at our schools though, parents send kids with crazy hairstyles and in obscene shirts and then yell at teachers and administrators who try to enforce the code. Parents will spend time and money getting their kid's hair dyed and cut but won't force them to study. Dumb!
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liv4evr
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07:13 AM on 11/03/2011
Ok, but this kid was sent home for wearing black shoes made from the wrong material, not pink hair, obscene shirts or anything else. I, too, am a mother of a child who goes to a private school requiring specific clothing. But "plimsolls" instead of leather? Is there really a correlation between shoe material and learning?
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An Independent Woman
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11:47 PM on 11/02/2011
And you wonder why the kids are like they are today. Parents making excuses for children.... One of the mothers used the word pathetic. Yes, you are pathetic.
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01:15 AM on 11/03/2011
Yas, ve must obey zee school...
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