Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
I have more or less read the Dover Mercury.It now costs £1.10 .I have removed the supplement houses for sale and entertainment guide.What am I left with ,pages of the Neil Rix saga with Law abiding Councillors sitting on the fence and photos of the Mayor carring on as usual.
Last Friday was Merchant Navy Day not a report or a picture in the said paper.The Mayor was not present at that service .Dover Mercury you should have got your priorities right and reported the event.
Not pages of did he or didn't he cause unwarranted bad Images of Dover.
Over in nearby Margate we have a Headmaster trying to enforce standards of dress for his pupils.Some misguided parents are up in arms ..
So what am I getting at , lovely service is ignored. ,A Head master trying to set ground rules and pictures of our current Mayor in a toilet..
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
Disagree over the headmaster in Margate who would be better suited to running a prison rather than a school. One of the pupils sent home was wearing trainers because of a serious car accident leaving severe hip damage. normal shoes were out of the question. The headmaster reportedly said to the child that it was better to be in a bit of pain rather than breaking the uniform rules.
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
Howard disagree with you that. Piupil should have received a Doctors note.My youngest son went to Barton Road for three years a very strict Headmaster but did my son no harm..I'm old fashioned and I think dress code and good manners is very important .The drop in standards and lack of discipline is why we have drunks and people half dressed roaming around Dover .No h arm in uniform my husband wore one for years a nd when I was a telephonist although the public could not see us we were taught to dress as if we could be seen..
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
Howard disagree with you that. Piupil should have received a Doctors note.My youngest son went to Barton Road for three years a very strict Headmaster but did my son no harm..I'm old fashioned and I think dress code and good manners is very important .The drop in standards and lack of discipline is why we have drunks and people half dressed roaming around Dover .No h arm in uniform my husband wore one for years a nd when I was a telephonist although the public could not see us we were taught to dress as if we could be seen..
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
Howard disagree with you that. Piupil should have received a Doctors note.My youngest son went to Barton Road for three years a very strict Headmaster but did my son no harm..I'm old fashioned and I think dress code and good manners is very important .The drop in standards and lack of discipline is why we have drunks and people half dressed roaming around Dover .No h arm in uniform my husband wore one for years a nd when I was a telephonist although the public could not see us we were taught to dress as if we could be seen..
Reginald Barrington
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,259
I support him fully in enforcing uniform to drive up standards at a failing school, maybe an error over the trainers if that is genuine. But the first line of the BBC report on it says it all "A PCSO based at Hartsdown academy"
Arte et Marte
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
Help posted three times .Editor delete two of my posts.My I pad keeps sticking
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,895
I do agree with the headmaster enforcing rules but not with him sending the children home.
Why not give the children another more suitable punishment like detention, if it was me I would have rejoiced in having another day off school. There is also the argument that he should be fined in the same way parents are for taking their children on holiday on schooldays.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
I am fully in favour of a school uniform regime but like Jan I believe detention was the obvious answer.
The new head seems to want it to be all about him, he had 6 weeks to prepare for what happened on the first day of term. Since the incident instead of issuing a statement he has given interviews to all the national dailies and been on Radio 4's flagship "Today" programme and ITV's morning show.
Reginald Barrington- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,259
The problem with detention is its the child who is punished for the parents failure to comply with the rules this way it's the parents who are inconvenienced. Also schools have to ask the parents for permission to give a child detention?
Arte et Marte
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,895
Reg, the child is being punished by being sent home missing (so called) vital time in the classroom, those who are happy to miss lessons could deliberately wear the wrong clothing.
There is nothing wrong with informing the parents or giving lunchtime detention or even clearing up school grounds as a punishment.
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Guest 1735- Registered: 26 Apr 2016
- Posts: 90
If my daughter had been kicked out of school and anything had happened to her , that headmaster would be facing court quicker than he could blink , Looking at him tho he should take a leaf outta his own book ,he looks rather unkempt and should be shown a razor
Guest 1458- Registered: 16 Jan 2015
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Sue Nicholas wrote:Help posted three times .Editor delete two of my posts.My I pad keeps sticking
You can delete them yourself Mrs Nicholas by pressing the pen and paper link on the top left of your posting and then press 'delete this post' under the box on the lower right and then confirm delete by pressing the green tab on the lefthand side below the box.
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
Thank you