Poor boys, sentenced to serve in a feminised education system. Boys had fun, burnt off excess energy, female head teacher could only see an unruly mob threatening health and safety. Result suspension for the boys.
Interesting to see that the Head can't countenance the thought that her actions might have been inappropriate! After all we have to ask was this the only snowball fight in the whole of the UK? If not why was it the only one that lead to pupils suspension? Watch out misandry about!

TYpical of the impotent fascists you find running schools. They can't hack it in a real job, they have no understanding of dealing with people and so just impose their will on those weaker than themselves.

what a load of bs

Suspended for throwing snowballs? Mental..

snowball fights promote fitness and fun.
The teachers need lessons. Hit them in their pocket, move your kids to a different school.
Complain to the LEA, take it up with your local MP
This is really beyond a joke.
This is a lose lose story. It gets me so annoyed. I won't stand for it anymore!!!!

South Leeds Academy is a school that was started about 6 yrs ago, it merged two schools one from the local area and one that was prodominatly Asian decent children from another area, there has been trouble there since day one, i do believe they still have a couple of police officers there full time. This snowball thing has a bit more to it than H & S issues. But on saying that, stopping kids throwing snowballs, what next? Put a tent over the playground, keep them in when it's snowing. By the way it is a very modern school to look at, very nice, bit of a waste really, when you see what the ofsted reports say

Utterly pathetic, and as for the risble comments of the Head(sic) teacher, they all but beggar belief. When I went to school we made 'sildes' out on the sheet ice. It was fun, we fell over/off (occasionally) and got bruises (occasionally) but, we had some fun. Presumably in South Leeds Academy "fun" has been taken out of the school due to H+S restrictions... and we wonder why our kids sit all the time in front of computer screens getting obese?

If you don’t teach competitiveness if you don’t teach risk assessment if you don’t teach understanding if you don’t teach boundaries if you don’t teach life then you teach children to die. The animal world teaches all this to their young because without it they will not survive they will even chastise their young when they misbehave. Nature is the best survival school there is and if we as a species want to continue to live on this rock in space then we have to let our children learn. Play is a great teacher all animals do it and we are no different children play children learn it’s simple and uncomplicated.
Health and safety is a modern guide to survival not a whip to beat us with it is a set of rule with common sense written within its lines its aim is assessment, understanding and boundaries. University has taken numerous people taught some of them but failed to educate all of them they may have degrees in their chosen subject but they fail to use what they were born with.
A school is not just for learning the three R’s but a place of fulfilment in lives joy’s a playground is not a place of paranoia but a place of discovery and laughter, School is for a short time let them learn play and enjoy each day they will have plenty of time to understand the idiosyncrasies of the big bad world later.

I guess the US isn't the only place where "zero tolerance" makes exactly zero sense.

The lunatics have taken over the asylum, Leave the youngsters alone they have a tough time as it is.

30 to 40 pupils were taking part in the snowball fight, yet just six were singled out - these six must have been the best snowballers. Maybe the England cricket team should take a look at them?

What do you expect from 16 year olds in the snow? A bunch of snowmen with carrotts for knobs? No, they were having fun!

"Behaviour that compromises student safety will be addressed in an appropriate manner".

Perhaps it will, one day. But not on Monday.