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Cityzen said:
Yes, you would say that to quote Mandy Rice Davies.

Other publications, including Scottish ones have carried the story.
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What special privileges does she get other than saying I am a wolf?

Do you think a teacher should be spending his or her time arguing with a teenager about whether she's a wolf or not? I'm sure you have enough experience of dealing with teenagers to know that arguing with them is a complete waste of time.

Don't you think that getting so upset about a pupil who says I'm a wolf is more than a little woke?
 
Obadiah said:
What special privileges does she get other than saying I am a wolf?

Do you think a teacher should be spending his or her time arguing with a teenager about whether she's a wolf or not? I'm sure you have enough experience of dealing with teenagers to know that arguing with them is a complete waste of time.

Don't you think that getting so upset about a pupil who says I'm a wolf is more than a little woke?
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Hopefully no special privileges, unlike the 'boy' at my granddaughter's high school who is allowed to wear a skirt and knee high leather boots. The uniform policy is trousers (door ajar for topless comments) for boys and girls with no skirts allowed. Equality? :emoticon-0138-think


The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
 
TwoWrights said:
Hopefully no special privileges, unlike the 'boy' at my granddaughter's high school who is allowed to wear a skirt and knee high leather boots. The uniform policy is trousers (door ajar for topless comments) for boys and girls with no skirts allowed. Equality? :emoticon-0138-think


The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
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He's the only pupil in the school who wears a skirt. The boy certainly has balls to stand out like that. It shows what a **** uniform policy the school has though.
 
Obadiah said:
He's the only pupil in the school who wears a skirt. The boy certainly has balls to stand out like that. It shows what a **** uniform policy the school has though.
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It may well be a **** policy but it's a policy all should follow. At this time of year BBC Look North always has stories of pupils placed in isolation for not following uniform policy, even though when parents sign up for the school they know full well what the policy is. The parents and pupil in this case will have been fully aware of the school's policy and should stick to it. That is all. :emoticon-0138-think


The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
 
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TwoWrights said:
It may well be a **** policy but it's a policy all should follow. At this time of year BBC Look North always has stories of pupils placed in isolation for not following uniform policy, even though when parents sign up for the school they know full well what the policy is. The parents and pupil in this case will have been fully aware of the school's policy and should stick to it. That is all. :emoticon-0138-think


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Worrying about the uniform policy of a school that you or your child doesn’t attend appears a bit snowflakey to me.
 
TwoWrights said:
Hopefully no special privileges, unlike the 'boy' at my granddaughter's high school who is allowed to wear a skirt and knee high leather boots. The uniform policy is trousers (door ajar for topless comments) for boys and girls with no skirts allowed. Equality? :emoticon-0138-think


The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
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And hopefully that child will feel safe and accepted, then grow up into a responsible, happy adult living a fulfilling and rewarding life, because as a reasonable man, that is what you want for everyone, right wrighty?

I don't know if you've trained, mentored or taught youth, but you give 'special privileges' every hour of the day - there's always that kid that can't keep quiet, stand still, has problems at home, going through a hormonal time etc. It's a constant balance of maintaining a learning environment that allows all to grow. There are rules that supposedly apply to all, but you can't win every battle, children aren't soldiers or prisoners and so a blind eye is shown to allow this to happen. It's not the 1960s and adults don't want to beat and abuse children into submission and lose them from education and destroy their lives.
 
Heimdallr said:
And hopefully that child will feel safe and accepted, then grow up into a responsible, happy adult living a fulfilling and rewarding life, because as a reasonable man, that is what you want for everyone, right wrighty?

I don't know if you've trained, mentored or taught youth, but you give 'special privileges' every hour of the day - there's always that kid that can't keep quiet, stand still, has problems at home, going through a hormonal time etc. It's a constant balance of maintaining a learning environment that allows all to grow. There are rules that supposedly apply to all, but you can't win every battle, children aren't soldiers or prisoners and so a blind eye is shown to allow this to happen. It's not the 1960s and adults don't want to beat and abuse children into submission and lose them from education and destroy their lives.
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So you don't agree with schools having a uniform policy?
 
TwoWrights said:
It may well be a **** policy but it's a policy all should follow. At this time of year BBC Look North always has stories of pupils placed in isolation for not following uniform policy, even though when parents sign up for the school they know full well what the policy is. The parents and pupil in this case will have been fully aware of the school's policy and should stick to it. That is all. :emoticon-0138-think


The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
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If the boy is allowed to wear a skirt then he is following the uniform rules because they allow him to.

I think it's a **** policy because it doesn't allow girls that want to wear skirts to wear them.

Having subverted my schools uniform policy in the 1970s, along with the vast majority of my class mates, I don't believe in having a uniform policy. As long as you turn up clean and presentable I don't see any problem. My kids didn't demand the school should have a uniform. They went to school in clean clothes, passed their exams and got decent jobs. The only thing they missed out on was throwing their school uniform in a pile before putting on their "proper" clothes to go out in. I don't think it adversely affected them though.
 
Obadiah said:
What special privileges does she get other than saying I am a wolf?

Do you think a teacher should be spending his or her time arguing with a teenager about whether she's a wolf or not? I'm sure you have enough experience of dealing with teenagers to know that arguing with them is a complete waste of time.

Don't you think that getting so upset about a pupil who says I'm a wolf is more than a little woke?
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I am not getting upset about some daft youngster declaring he is a wolf. Irritated by daft sods indulging him/her. My school didn’t bother arguing with people who didn’t conform. Which is why they expelled me.
 
Ric Glasgow said:
So you don't agree with schools having a uniform policy?
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You generally don't like what I think, Ric. My three children didnt wear uniform and it made no difference to their education compared to when i grew up with it. It seems like another bullshit regulation which takes time and effort for teachers to police, when they probably just want to do their jobs and teach. It makes no difference to learning if a kid has an earring or longer than collar length hair.

I think there's many drink-sodden pensioners who were bullied and intimidated as children in the 1950s to 1970s, by adults who lived through ww2 and were suffering from trauma, and they've never dealt with it or come to terms with it, so it angers them these days when children are allowed to express themselves without fear of being screamed at, ridiculed, punished or hit.
 
Heimdallr said:
You generally don't like what I think, Ric. My three children didnt wear uniform and it made no difference to their education compared to when i grew up with it. It seems like another bullshit regulation which takes time and effort for teachers to police, when they probably just want to do their jobs and teach. It makes no difference to learning if a kid has an earring or longer than collar length hair.

I think there's many drink-sodden pensioners who were bullied and intimidated as children in the 1950s to 1970s, by adults who lived through ww2 and were suffering from trauma, and they've never dealt with it or come to terms with it, so it angers them these days when children are allowed to express themselves without fear of being screamed at, ridiculed, punished or hit.
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Another of your sweeping sneering generalisations about drink sodden pensioners. And insulting their parents who had been through a war. They weren’t all suffering from trauma, they weren’t like the soft lot nowadays where they are diagnosed with PTSD at the drop of a hat. No one expressed themselves more or railed against the system than in the 1960s. Far more was altered then than now.
Though we didn’t express ourselves as eloquently as they do now with machetes and zombie knives or picking up a 92 year old sitting on a bench and throwing him over the back of it like 4 of these expressing themselves did yesterday.
 
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Cityzen said:
Another of your sweeping sneering generalisations about drink sodden pensioners. And insulting their parents who had been through a war. They weren’t all suffering from trauma, they weren’t like the soft lot nowadays where they are diagnosed with PTSD at the drop of a hat. No one expressed themselves more or railed against the system than in the 1960s. Far more was altered then than now.
Though we didn’t express ourselves as eloquently as they do now with machetes and zombie knives or picking up a 92 year old sitting on a bench and throwing him over the back of it like 4 of these expressing themselves did yesterday.
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I didn't insult any parents. I wrote adults.
 
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