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Originally Posted by Chris T
Can I just draw everybody back to the central fact of the case here: regardless of whether you think the school was in the right, or heavy handed, they DID NOT kick him out of the exam. They offered him a range of solutions. He opted to go home for his own shoes, and HE DECIDED FOR HIMSELF that he would not have time to get back to school. We have only his word for it that there was no time.
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But they didn't offer him the most sensible solution of letting him take the exam in a pretty innocuous looking pair of trainers (which, OK, according to him, he had been wearing to school for weeks without challenge. We could debate for hours - oh we have!
- the validity of his statements over others).
I don't think anyone is disputing that he was technically in breach of uniform rules, it's the manner in which it was dealt with which is contentious. Therefore whether the school was heavy handed is central to the debate.