Parents remove children because of "excessive" discipline policy

[EvilTwins]

This has popped up on my FB timeline and has been in a couple of national tabloids. School is local to me. Sorry about the Daily Fail link. What's the MN verdict? Having read it in local and national press, I just feel a bit sorry for the children. Being splashed all over the papers by their dad seems a bit unfair.

By the father's own account his daughter has a history of ignoring teachers' instructions, doing what she wants and then ignoring the punishments. Doesn't take a genius to work out where she gets it from.

cruikshank - it's clearly not as simple as missing a day's education for not tucking a shirt in.

I bet there are 29 kids glad to see the back of a disruptive pupil and more happy to see the back of her disruptive family. The father thinks he's bravely sticking it to the man. He is a fool.

I think his daughter sounds quite defiant and that's from him painting her in the best light possible.

Definitely. And I'm sure if we saw what her behaviour was really like or heard the teachers' version of it we'd be backing them all the way.

Let's face it, they won't have sent her into isolation the moment someone saw her shirt was untucked. She'll have been told to tuck it in and refused. Even telling the story purely from the student's point of view, the father has to admit that she's walked out of a lesson and then walked out of isolation- so pretty defiant and disrespectful!

I say this as someone who firmly believes not only that uniform is stupid, but also that homework and full time schooling are often unnecessary! But personal discipline and respect for others is not negotiable.