Mum takes daughter out of GCSE exam over an earring

[CatherineHMumsnet]

We've been asked to comment on a story in Leeds today - and wondered what Mumsnetters think of this news story

Mother needs to get her priorities right. If she wants to challenge the uniform policy fair enough but pulling your child out of an exam to prove a point is a bit silly.

She's being a drama queen.

I agree. But Charlotte or Mary's mother would be differently loony. No less a loon though.

"If she wants to challenge the uniform policy fair enough"

Actually, not fair enough, or at least not over trivia. She should be supporting the school. As things stand, Dakota (named after the state or the plane, I wonder?) is now going to be the whining brat who runs to her mother when her employer tells her to do something, and that never ends well.

She's entitled to challenege policy if she so wishes tokyo. I didn't say it was right, reasonable or that it was a wise move.

I can never believe some parents! Simply take the earring out and do the exam-unbelievably petty.

Not necessarily, seeker. Ime it is not always the mums who some people would define as either "chavvy" or "alternative" who dish out names like Dakota: the similar names I have heard round here actually belonged to the children of perfectly ordinary sensible well educated school teachers with no "alternative" interests that I know of. Highly intelligent people who would have backed up the school on any disciplinary issue. They obviously just liked that kind of name.

I've often wondered what you would make of my children's names, seeker.