Parents pull children out of ‘borstal’ school where pupils punished for hugging friends

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1. I really hope that’s not a picture of their real uniform, because if so they can’t spell “Fazakerley” properly.

2. What they need is a Short. Sharp. Shock.

   The people running the school I mean. I understand control and respect but not this.

3. That’s mental, not a parent so not sure how detention works but can’t you just say no? (As a parent)

   guess they just expel if the parents do that much?

4. These academies seem to be a great idea.

   Pretty sure my state comp didn’t have an ‘isolation unit’. This school looks like it is run by control freaks.

5. “Parents said their kids had been punished for hugging their friends, not lifting their hands high enough and in one instance a young carer was given detention due to an alert on their phone that their mum was unwell.”

   Sounds like they don’t want to conform to society , they should be learning their place not learning how to express themselves /s

   “”When the kids go in, they are made to lift their equipment in the air. My daughter had to spend an hour in detention because she didn’t hold her hands up high enough.

   Parents have said the school’s strict rules are impacting the mental health of their kids

   “Another time, she walked into class and her friend gave her a hug. She got an hour in detention for that as well. She also got held behind because her foot was out of line when queuing for class. My daughter has been put in isolation every day for 10 days, it is seriously affecting her mental health.

   “It is really getting her down. She comes home and just goes to her room. It is making her depressed. The school has been putting her into a state of depression.”

   Pfft sounds more like bad parenting /s you have to know how to discipline your kids otherwise they won’t want to conform to british society and our “values” /s,

   They should learn their place! /s

6. Whilst it sounds like this school has very strict rules, I highly doubt that the things these parents are saying are the entirety of the truth. Sounds like their child, who they believe to be God’s gift to Earth and who can do no wrong, has gotten into trouble for something and has not told their parents the full reason for it; perhaps a foot was out of line but they conveniently leave out the fact they were also talking when they weren’t meant to be, for example.

7. I thought this was my daughter’s school at first, it looks very similar. They are also very strict but that strictness is just following very tight rules. If you break a rule it is dealt with really quickly and without malice and the kids know what to expect.

   My daughter excels at this school and it is the top school in the area, even beating the various independent and private schools.

   The issues I see are always with parents who believe that the school should give their kid some sort of special treatment or who complain at the strict rules: “why should my child wear the correct uniform”, “why can’t my child be driven to the door”, “why should my child get a detention”, etc.

8. Overly strict but the young carer sticks out particularly – schools are supposed to know if they have any and make allowances around them, IIRC

9. This is like some bizarre Roal Dahl levels of horrid.

10. There’s a massive disconnect between “Adults” and Teenagers. Most EDIT: Many older people (25+) are in support of any kind of dehumanising and extreme regulations towards pupils as long as it results in higher work output. Funnily enough, despite these policies “working” and increasing productivity I don’t see many people clamoring for such policies in the adult workplace.

11. “Where’s ya fackin’ tool.” – Carlin 4737. THAT was a Borstal. This is a PRU.

12. Parents should welcome a school that imposes discipline. The parents are pathetic.

13. My school in the 90s was pretty lax on uniform and homework compared to other schools in the area. Behaviour was generally pretty goor tbh, seems to me like going stricter has the opposite effect.

    Like a neighbour’s kid had a full class detention due to the school bus being late ffs so they had a load of 11yr olds walking up to 6 miles home which is very sensible as the detention meant they missed the bus home.

14. No doubt people will find this confirms their own prejudices. But having taught in outstanding to failing schools , this sounds like the sort of bollocks that badly behaving kids get their parents to back them up on when a school actually tries to get a grip on behaviour for the benefit of the majority of the kids. I imagine the teachers will be overjoyed if the kids and their parents go elsewhere. Though unfortunately the worst of them rarely carry out such threats.