Sixth-form girl living alone

[BoboChic]

Do you think that a private mixed sixth form should admit a new pupil who will be living alone in a small rented apartment during the week, returning home to her parents at the weekend?

The law clearly wasn't broken since pupils did not tell their parents that their fellow pupil was living alone.

Maybe the girl broke the law herself since she did reveal that fact to her fellow pupils?

Add message | Report | Message poster BoboChic Fri 17-Mar-17 10:36:03
Why are you incapable of understanding that the school breached the trust that parents had placed in it to ensure all pupils were living with their families?

So what do you mean by that?

Why are you incapable of understanding that the school breached the trust that parents had placed in it to ensure all pupils were living with their families?

the parents ASSUMED. wrongly.

The girl can reveal her own personal information. She didn't break the law.

Maybe the girl broke the law herself since she did reveal that fact to her fellow pupils

Oh dear god. Desperation off. You don't break the law by revealing your own personal information

I know, and that is my point.

What is your point?

this is an odd thread

no laws have been broken

why do you care so much

So the issue boils down to whether or not the parents were in the right or in the wrong to assume that the school had verified that all pupils lived with a parent during term time. And none of us on this thread can know that since we do not have the school rule book.

So why are you posting if you know that question is unanswerable?

who cares?!?

Because - as this thread has amply proven - there is not consensus on the issue. There are strongly held opinions, many assumptions and schools are perfectly entitled to have their own rules on the matter.

yes exactly so what is the point of the thread?

If you don't care, why post on the thread? Just stay away from the discussion (which clearly does create a lot of feeling and confusion).

it keeps coming up on my watched threads as I posted right at the beginning

its kind of fascinating that its still going

This thread has amply proven that the OP cannot answer a straight question.

There is consensus on the obvious: if the school committed to letting parents know if a student lived alone, they would have been breaking the law. If the school rules said students had to live with a parent during term time and then admitted a child who didn't, them either they or their rules were wrong (may have been open to legal challenge). Either way, you don't have the relevant information, do you?

There is nothing to prevent a private school from having a rule that pupils must live with a parent during term time.

It isn't relevant unless they did have this rule. Did they?

Clearly the parents who are now challenging the school believed that there was that rule. I don't know! But the cultural consensus that it was a normal fact of school life exists.

Even for those that are total anti private school, don't think many would buy your weird bashing based on the zero facts provided to prove the school was in the wrong.

That private schools are full or feckless teenagers and parents...maybe. but not based on your argument alone.

I'm not the one doing the bashing. I'm a curious observer!

You are 100% inventing this 'cultural consensus'. It isn't a 'consensus', it is an assumption based on ignorance. That is their own problem, unless it was a school rule.

No, when a whole group believes something to be true (whether or not it is), that is the very definition of a cultural consensus.

More fool them, then. It seems they wrongly assumed and therefore built a false consensus about what the rules actually were. Their problem.