Daughter denied prom attendance.

That is seriously shitty and quite possibly the worst thing I’ve read about on here in a long long time.
Yeah, discrimination on the grounds of the complaint and also on health grounds id say.

This is disability discrimination and I would complain on this basis. Absolutely disgusting.

@fernfriend agree 100% I’d be looking at what the stomach complaint is and whether would class as a disability I would quote the equality act at the school -
Yes, the Equality Act 2010 covers schools, ensuring they don't discriminate against pupils or employees based on protected characteristics like race, disability, sex, or religion. The Act applies to all schools, including maintained schools, academies, free schools, and independent schools

It sounds like your son needed more time off to be honest.

This is discrimination and not ok , quite the disability discrimination act , and equality act! She has a medical condition so they’re discriminating , not like the poor girl is bunking off to go shopping everyday , hope you get a good outcome , wouldn’t let this drop though

This is disability discrimination. Disability is defined as something lasting more than 12 months. Discrimination is treating someone differently in relation to their disability. I’d be telling the school they will be receiving a disability discrimination case if they are excluding her based on her long term health condition.

I really hope your letter would include "how fucking dare they" 😁

I'm a solicitor and this is the kind of thing I would gleefully write a letter for. You potentially have them on two points

• disability discrimination, and victimisation due to her ongoing complaint with the school. How fucking dare they.

I fucking hate this. The prom should be for everyone; it's to celebrate the end of school.

It comes under protected characteristics and disability discrimination laws.
My DS' old school pulled this crap over a cinema treat. You had to have over 100 achievement points and at least 98% attendance
My DS' had 250 points but due to having COPD and other illnesses, he had 91% attendance. So he was given a banned letter.
He wasn't having any of it and wrote a letter to his headteacher, pointing out the disability act and that he wasn't bunking off, he was genuinely ill and their rules on attendance made this worse because he was picking up chest infections.

School apologised and changed their rules. The head actually admitted looking at the disability act and realised they were indeed breaking the law.

I suggest you mention to the school. Threaten a solicitor.

This sucks that’s it’s still happening . I have IBD and wasn’t allowed to go to my prom as I was in and out of hospital in year 11. Still sucks to this day but none of my friends went either to stick up for me . We had a takeaway and a dance at one of our friends houses who had a massive garage . About 15 of us went.

Straight to Governors with medical evidence and state that they are discriminating against your daughter. Mention legal action

Proms are an abomination that perpetuate everything that is wrong about the current school system- power hungry lackeys unable to make an educational impact so flex their muscles by creating these kind of riules, and the nature of them serves only to marginalise those on the outskirts even further. Behaviour should be the only bar to attendance. Lots of good advice here, I hope you’ve are successful in a resolution.

Cant bare schools for this , to openly exclude a pupil its pathetic.
Is your daughter really bothered by not going to a school prom I'd ask her her feelings .

Worth going to the school and talking with the head teacher or head of year calmly. Seems like discrimination otherwise, especially if she has a doctor notes.

I know that it’s different, but I hate all the attendance award shit. I ended up being off school a few times due to having epilepsy appointments and scans/EEG’s with my neurologist during the day and as such I was never able to get an attendance award.

This is such a horrible way of dealing with things in schools. The young person, who already has more to contend with than their peers is made to feel guilty/embarrassed/ashamed of something that they have no control over. I also think attendance based awards are discrimination full stop and fail to understand how this "teaches" anything except potentially some form of martyrdom and putting others, potentially vulnerable people at risk from those who come in with infections!
I do agree it's important to ensure children are able to be in school whenever possible and support if there are barriers to attending.
Equally it's not always possible to request specialist medical appointments in holidays or outside of normal school hours!
I say this as the parent of a child with a congenital physical & medical health disorder whose attendance has never been more than 50 odd percent. We have been fortunate that both primary & secondary school have recognised this is beyond her/our control & have at times even encouraged her to come in just to attend the more fun bits so she doesn't constantly miss out.
Please do take this further OP & as outlined by a PP who is a governor, look at contacting the Body of Governors & how you go about this in the proper process. I hope your DD is well enough to attend.

Discrimination based on a medical condition/disability.

I would be going after the school on this.

This.

Nompint going all guns blazing until you've had a sensible conversation.

Do you have the agreement about her attending with a docs note in writing?

Proms are American bs that unfortunately been adopted in the UK. They have always been used to discriminate and exaggerate whatever social pecking order was within the students circles already. The teachers revel in this as they think that their star pupils (socially thinking, rather than academically thinking) will somehow reflect on themselves. They are more than happy to exclude some students in order to ingratiate themselves even more so with their favoured ones. I know this as I know teachers and how juvenile many of them are, ie they have never left the school playground. The same with bullying, they dont really care as the kids being bullied are not the ones they mentally associate themselves with.

It would be understandable if your DD had a poor behaviour record but illness and being bullied is a stupid reason to deny her the Prom.

The same thing happened to my nephew. His attendance has been poor due to panic attacks which the school was fully aware of including the school nurse. My sister rang up stating they were penalising a child for being mentally unwell, they apologised and issued an invitation.

Just for your back pocket-
Her condition represents a disability if she's had it more than 12 months and has an adverse effect on her day to day life.
For the school to impose a blanket policy that disadvantages students with disabilities or protected characteristics is discrimination. They must make reasonable adjustments to such policies to avoid less favourable treatment.
That's the law. Equality Act 2010.

As your daughter has had this medical condition for more than a year, it counts as ‘long term’ under the Equality Act’s disability provision. Look up the details and tell the school you will sue them for not making reasonable adjustments.

Yanbu x