READ MORE Law on flying Union Jack on house or car after schoolgirl sent to isolation<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\nThe letter said: “The nature and tone of this abuse has escalated in recent days including personal threats to staff.”<\/p>\n
The letter continued: “While we have been working closely with our multi-agency partners to address the situation, our primary responsibility remains the safety and wellbeing of every child and member of staff.<\/p>\n
“This is not a decision we have taken lightly. We understand the disruption this may cause to your families and your child’s education, but the safety of our school community must come first.”<\/p>\n
The letter ended by thanking parents and guardians for their understanding and continued support during a “very challenging time”.<\/p>\n
Courtney, who said her outfit was inspired by Geri Halliwell’s iconic Spice Girls dress, was stopped at the school gates by a member of staff and ordered to change after picking it out for Culture Celebration Day.<\/p>\n
Courtney’s father Stuart Field, 47, said he was ‘gobsmacked’ to learn his daughter had been segregated from her peers due to her choice of attire.<\/p>\n
Mr Field, who works in marine restoration, said: “Courtney was so embarrassed and couldn’t understand what she’d done wrong.<\/p>\n
“She should not be made to feel embarrassed about being British. And she shouldn’t be punished for celebrating British culture and history; nobody else I’ve spoken to can quite get their heads around it.”<\/p>\n
The father added: “Another with a St Georges flag and another with a Welsh flag were not allowed in either. It was ridiculous. It just seemed anything that was remotely British wasn’t allowed.<\/p>\n
“It’s ironic they were having a cultural diversity day but then decided to single out a group of people.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bilton School in Rugby in Warwickshire said it is closing “in the interests of student and staff safety”…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271842,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[12,16,15,9733],"class_list":{"0":"post-271841","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-warwickshire"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114873866975122668","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Bilton School in Rugby in Warwickshire said it is closing “in the interests of student and staff safety” following threats.<\/p>\n