Graham P Davis wrote:
Surfer! wrote:

In message , Graham P Davis
writes


A few years ago, a school here sent a pupil home for wearing a white
cotton shirt instead of a white polyester shirt.

I'm astonished the teacher could tell the difference!


If it was weather like this, he was probably the only child in the school
not drenched in sweat.

--
Graham Davis
Bracknell

There is something badly wrong with the education system if little
hitlers are imposing such stupid, petty regulations. A girl is cut
across the face by another with a razor blade, children are allegedly
taking knives to school and someone gets a detention for having their
top button undone in temperatures of 29/30C?

It really does beggar belief.

wrote in message
ups.com...


There is something badly wrong with the education system if little
hitlers are imposing such stupid, petty regulations. A girl is cut
across the face by another with a razor blade, children are allegedly
taking knives to school and someone gets a detention for having their
top button undone in temperatures of 29/30C?

It's like they've given up tackling al the really important stuff and
are content with satisfying themselves with some illusion of
authority with these petty rules.

Col
--
Bolton, Lancashire.
160m asl.

wrote:


Graham P Davis wrote:
Surfer! wrote:

In message , Graham P Davis
writes


A few years ago, a school here sent a pupil home for wearing a white
cotton shirt instead of a white polyester shirt.

I'm astonished the teacher could tell the difference!


If it was weather like this, he was probably the only child in the school
not drenched in sweat.

--
Graham Davis
Bracknell

There is something badly wrong with the education system if little
hitlers are imposing such stupid, petty regulations. A girl is cut
across the face by another with a razor blade, children are allegedly
taking knives to school and someone gets a detention for having their
top button undone in temperatures of 29/30C?

It really does beggar belief.

My first reaction when I heard that 40% of children took knives to school
was "only 40%?". I presume the figures are for knives classified as
offensive weapons though I've heard no-one make the distinction. Fifty
years ago, nearly all of us took knives to school but these were mainly
penknives. I also used to take a razor-blade with me - one of the old
Ever-Ready single-edged sort. These were essential tools for school, the
same as pens, pencils, dividers, compasses, etc.

--
Graham Davis
Bracknell