Of course it’s a multi-academy trust. Morons. Also, this is ableist as fuck.
Wish UK kids would stop calling it a “Prom”, such an American thing.
Bull shit. What about the sick children who r already suffering much as it is, can’t do as much as their peers because their bodies won’t allow them to?
They told the students at my kids’ school that only those with 95% or above attendance would get to go on the end of year trip. However many children had been sent home sick that year, with fevers and migraines and bad colds. I had to pick my son up twice after he got worse throughout the day.
Apparently only about 5 kids will be going on the trip, and the school is being heavily criticised for pushing for the attendance of sick children and punishing those sent home sick from school, instead of focusing resources on persistent truants.
Seriously?
How many are even gonna be there with this rule, kids take any opportunity to get a sick day.
Teacher here: this is stupid!
Also, proms are shit.
Has anyone bothered to actually read the article or are people just being outraged because they want to be?
> And if they don’t attend every Period Six lesson without **”a valid and authorised reason”** then there will be no prom or end-of-school Thorpe Park trip for them
I imagine this covers if the pupil is sick or has an important appointment. The school is wanting to encourage the kids to attend an extra revision session in preparation for their GCSEs, instead of just going home and scrolling through TikTok and playing video games.
Since when did we start doing proms? Is the UK now just a 90s American teen film?
Also, this is fucking stupid and ableist as fuck and I hope the parents tell the head to go fuck themselves
This is utter bloody insanity. You can’t expect kids to never get ill. Or are we punishing children for catching Norovirus and not coming in to spread it round?
Oh good that makes going to prom on my own a whole lot less depressing
That’s alright, they’ll just go to the after party.
Tell the school to shove their prom where the sun don’t shine and get the parents of all the kids that were off sick/ for legitimate reasons over the year, to organize their own prom at a local hall.
Are they introducing HEPA filters to classrooms to prevent kids spreading viruses such as Covid then?
My school had something similar its to encourage attendance.
I got an invite but refused to go for other…social related reasons, this was in 2006 do how is this new?
We called in prom in 2013 and I wasn’t allowed to go because I had too many lates. These lates were never more than 5 mins and I didn’t miss lessons because the day started with registration/form/tutor. Was a bit silly
Stupid.
My school pushed 100% attendance so hard a kid came in with TB and gave it to 8 pupils and a teacher.
Lol. Can tell everyone only reads the title. Reddit is fucking awful.
The parents need to get together and organise something so that none of the kids want to go to the school prom. Just like a teen movie.
Isn’t this about unauthorised absences? As opposed to being off ill or for any legitimate reason?
If that disqualifies everyone, good. Proms in this sense are an unpleasantly socially competitive American nonsense we never should have imported. There can be other kinds of fun events and dances.
As long as that disqualifies *everyone*, good. Proms in this sense are an unpleasantly socially competitive American nonsense we never should have imported. There can be other kinds of fun events and dances.
“Prom” are you shitting me? 30 years ago they didn’t like us turning up on last day but we did anyway. Prom!?
I suppose I get what they are trying to do here, create incentives to attend unless there’s a good reason. But I think it’s a bit arsey when it’s a big milestone for kids, even the ones who aren’t perfect pupils.
We didn’t call it prom back when I was at school, but I remember teachers being arses about not letting people in for things like not wearing a tie, seemed to be a bit of a weird power trip for some.
They also need a plane ticket to the USA where “prom” is a thing. Get the fuck out of my country with your stupid American tradition.
I wasn’t allowed to go to prom because I got caught smoking weed. Meanwhile the guy who started 6 fights in 4 months was allowed to go because he showed improvement.
I’m not going to name names but guess who started a fight at prom whilst me and my mates were in a garage smoking weed?
Teachers on a power trip… What’s new? My favourite teachers were always the ones who didn’t treat you like inmates in their personal prison. Then there are the ones with zero common sense who want to rule with an iron fist. Overcompensating for their lack of personality and natural ability to lead.
This is just the plot of an 80s teen drama movie. The only thing missing is a “school bully” character who is a “prankster bad boy” (Read: Has committed multiple rapes and at least one attempted murder)
My school said this, they didn’t enforce it, and I didn’t give a fuck either way. If I could barely be bothered to go to school which is mandatory, the fuck makes you think I’ll go to a pointless optional ritual we imported from the US for some reason? Rather wank with a rubberised oven glove.
When my kids attended public school in London, we received a written warning because my daughter attended only 97.8% of her classes (she had to get emergency minor surgery, and missed 2 days). The school principal instructing us to send our kids to school – regardless of how sick they are. Particularly unwell children were sent to a separate room to suffer.
I suppose that this is what happens when student attendance affects school funding.
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Of course it’s a multi-academy trust. Morons. Also, this is ableist as fuck.
Wish UK kids would stop calling it a “Prom”, such an American thing.
Bull shit. What about the sick children who r already suffering much as it is, can’t do as much as their peers because their bodies won’t allow them to?
They told the students at my kids’ school that only those with 95% or above attendance would get to go on the end of year trip. However many children had been sent home sick that year, with fevers and migraines and bad colds. I had to pick my son up twice after he got worse throughout the day.
Apparently only about 5 kids will be going on the trip, and the school is being heavily criticised for pushing for the attendance of sick children and punishing those sent home sick from school, instead of focusing resources on persistent truants.
Seriously?
How many are even gonna be there with this rule, kids take any opportunity to get a sick day.
Teacher here: this is stupid!
Also, proms are shit.
Has anyone bothered to actually read the article or are people just being outraged because they want to be?
> And if they don’t attend every Period Six lesson without **”a valid and authorised reason”** then there will be no prom or end-of-school Thorpe Park trip for them
I imagine this covers if the pupil is sick or has an important appointment. The school is wanting to encourage the kids to attend an extra revision session in preparation for their GCSEs, instead of just going home and scrolling through TikTok and playing video games.
Since when did we start doing proms? Is the UK now just a 90s American teen film?
Also, this is fucking stupid and ableist as fuck and I hope the parents tell the head to go fuck themselves
This is utter bloody insanity. You can’t expect kids to never get ill. Or are we punishing children for catching Norovirus and not coming in to spread it round?
Oh good that makes going to prom on my own a whole lot less depressing
That’s alright, they’ll just go to the after party.
Tell the school to shove their prom where the sun don’t shine and get the parents of all the kids that were off sick/ for legitimate reasons over the year, to organize their own prom at a local hall.
Are they introducing HEPA filters to classrooms to prevent kids spreading viruses such as Covid then?
My school had something similar its to encourage attendance.
I got an invite but refused to go for other…social related reasons, this was in 2006 do how is this new?
We called in prom in 2013 and I wasn’t allowed to go because I had too many lates. These lates were never more than 5 mins and I didn’t miss lessons because the day started with registration/form/tutor. Was a bit silly
Stupid.
My school pushed 100% attendance so hard a kid came in with TB and gave it to 8 pupils and a teacher.
Lol. Can tell everyone only reads the title. Reddit is fucking awful.
The parents need to get together and organise something so that none of the kids want to go to the school prom. Just like a teen movie.
Isn’t this about unauthorised absences? As opposed to being off ill or for any legitimate reason?
If that disqualifies everyone, good. Proms in this sense are an unpleasantly socially competitive American nonsense we never should have imported. There can be other kinds of fun events and dances.
As long as that disqualifies *everyone*, good. Proms in this sense are an unpleasantly socially competitive American nonsense we never should have imported. There can be other kinds of fun events and dances.
“Prom” are you shitting me? 30 years ago they didn’t like us turning up on last day but we did anyway. Prom!?
I suppose I get what they are trying to do here, create incentives to attend unless there’s a good reason. But I think it’s a bit arsey when it’s a big milestone for kids, even the ones who aren’t perfect pupils.
We didn’t call it prom back when I was at school, but I remember teachers being arses about not letting people in for things like not wearing a tie, seemed to be a bit of a weird power trip for some.
They also need a plane ticket to the USA where “prom” is a thing. Get the fuck out of my country with your stupid American tradition.
I wasn’t allowed to go to prom because I got caught smoking weed. Meanwhile the guy who started 6 fights in 4 months was allowed to go because he showed improvement.
I’m not going to name names but guess who started a fight at prom whilst me and my mates were in a garage smoking weed?
Teachers on a power trip… What’s new? My favourite teachers were always the ones who didn’t treat you like inmates in their personal prison. Then there are the ones with zero common sense who want to rule with an iron fist. Overcompensating for their lack of personality and natural ability to lead.
This is just the plot of an 80s teen drama movie. The only thing missing is a “school bully” character who is a “prankster bad boy” (Read: Has committed multiple rapes and at least one attempted murder)
My school said this, they didn’t enforce it, and I didn’t give a fuck either way. If I could barely be bothered to go to school which is mandatory, the fuck makes you think I’ll go to a pointless optional ritual we imported from the US for some reason? Rather wank with a rubberised oven glove.
When my kids attended public school in London, we received a written warning because my daughter attended only 97.8% of her classes (she had to get emergency minor surgery, and missed 2 days). The school principal instructing us to send our kids to school – regardless of how sick they are. Particularly unwell children were sent to a separate room to suffer.
I suppose that this is what happens when student attendance affects school funding.