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Originally Posted by andyl
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. |
Yes and no. OK, I'll grant you, the school's reaction is a valid strand of the debate. But the boy's reaction is a
separate strand. It's getting frustrating that some people are intertwining the two. Even if the school
was being heavy-handed, they did absolutely nothing that
prevented the boy from sitting the exam. At the end of the day he chose not to sit it.