Girl in Union Jack dress sent home on diversity day

Galaxy in the 90s/00s children with SEND were placed in corridors outside of the classroom - it's never been inclusive for some children and shouldn't have been suggested for children whose needs couldn't be met properly in mainstream. I think this was pushed by the Labour government at the time to save money (and I voted for them at the time) They took decision making too far from a report by a very well known elder female politician whose name escapes me atm but she even disagreed with what was happening. They closed all the MLD schools where I lived at the time and this continued or well over a decade

Special schools have always worked towards proper inclusion. I know people will disagree with me but I haven't ever witnessed otherwise

Some, if not all, of the non-white children in her class will probably be British citizens, born and brought up here, whatever their ethnic origin and religious affiliation.

Galaxy

Yes, I was mentioning elsewhere that specialist 'hubs' within mainstream schools are now very common to cope with the number of pupils with additional needs in mainstream, I personally don't see how this is inclusive or meeting the needs of the children.

Are you a teacher, Galaxy?

Yes, I was mentioning elsewhere that specialist 'hubs' within mainstream schools are now very common to cope with the number of pupils with additional needs in mainstream, I personally don't see how this is inclusive or meeting the needs of the children.

Why shouldn’t we be proud to be British and show our flag.

yes they've fallen into the rabbit hole of not being inclusive whilst trying so hard to be
it happens in loads of situations - like special schools v mainstream. Special schools can be so more inclusive
It is all based on people's prejudices -mainly negative ones

What's that sentence, "we encourage children to wear attire that reflects their nationality or family heritage "
Enough said. What is our national costume? She looked great and got it spot on!

Here you go

TerriBull

No! It's not and anyway Rupert Bear wore one so that makes it fairly inclusive in an inter species sort of way. Maybe that's why the school let it pass.

You could be right but anyway we only have the "notice" not the "information" that almost certainly went home about the day.

I do wish we had the whole story - but of course the school isn't really able to tell us what actually happened - and the father can say what he likes.

I wonder if there is a mum involved somewhere and what she thinks - i saw that the father doesn't have the daughter's last name.
(I'm not drawing anything from that - just wondered about the mum).

JdotJ

I'm sure I read/heard that a child was sent home as they were dressed as a farmer

Did I imagine that ?

That’s hilarious 😂
As is Terribulls.

What about the children carrying flags and the boy dressed as a farmer? What exactly is this school trying to teach its students?

Maremia

Do any of you know what the 'remit', i.e. the instructions,said, that the chuldren took home, about the dress up day?

I certainly don't and have spent some time looking for them.

AuntieE

Presumably her teachers felt it was deeply inappropriate to wear a garment sewn out of, or to look like a national flag.

It would certainly cause a scandal in Denmark if anyone did go around dressed in our flag and I remember in the 1970s when it was briefly fashionable for very daring girls to wear shorts sewn of the Union Jack hearing of a German teenager seeing this and exclaiming in horror, "But you cannot sit down on your flag!"

You have a good point AuntieE. Anyone, in the Scouts or Guides, who handled the flag for ceremonial reasons, was taught how to treat it. So are those in our armed forces. My parents generation would certainly seen "wearing" the Union flag as an insult to the country.

What, exactly, was this father trying to teach his child?

Oreo

It doesn’t matter what anyone on this forum says about Reform, if schools and other institutions carry on in this way by trying to exclude or expunge anything to do with British culture, including flag banning, then people will vote Reform .
Most of us are sick of it.People come here to experience our way of life and there is no need to constantly apologise for anything done in the past and def we should promote our, and Western values and our own particularly rich culture.

Recent research tells us that there are things that turn large numbers away from Reform Oreo, just as happened in Canada. There are also large numbers who would never vote for Farage - they want to keep the NHS.

Nigel Farage says he's on the people's side - but when you take a closer look it's pretty clear who he's really fighting for isn't it? It's the rich, the powerful and his mates in big business.

You read that Reform has taken £2 million from fossil fuel lobbyists - polluters and climate fuel deniers. Over 90% comes from there apparently. £2 million quid! That's not standing up for the people, it's selling out to the highest bidder.

That is why he wants to cut public services, cut workers rights, cut taxes for the richest - handing even more power to the elites he pretends to oppose. Just like his mate Donald Trump is doing.

He is not smashing the system. He and his rich friends basically are the system.

This was one piece used in recent research used by Persuasion UK (they look into what does the persuading). They were looking into what information Reform were vulnerable to. They did work on Labour earlier in the year.

The quoted piece was the most damaging. It may take time to get people to understand the truth - some never do until something actually happens to them. We have seen in this in America where Trump's promises of "Jam today" turned to ashes in the mouths of MAGA members who now will not even get "Jam tomorrow"

persuasionuk.org/research/reform-message-testing-rct

Yes, Book Days, then you get people turning up as rock stars, because he's in my Rock Star Annual.

I read that too JdotJ.

Maybe if the "farmer" child had been more creative and thought outside the box, less Jeremy Cotswold Clarkson, maybe more the Opium growing farmer, Afghanistan style he might have cracked it, pardon the pun!

So it seems the school really wanted an 'Other Cultures' day in which Britain wasn't included. In the current climate, a very bad move which was bound to annoy people and will put schools off such days in future.My advice would be to celebrate Books and have a Character Day instead.

No! It's not and anyway Rupert Bear wore one so that makes it fairly inclusive in an inter species sort of way. Maybe that's why the school let it pass.

I suppose ^ a small tartan scarf^ is not a flag TerriBull

I'm sure I read/heard that a child was sent home as they were dressed as a farmer

Did I imagine that ?

School has over reacted I think. They’ve played into Dad’s hands. Shame on dad for using his daughter like this. Hope she can cope with the publicity.
I wonder if the school would have sent home a 3 rd generation British girl of Asian ethnicity dressed in a Union Jack. She would have every right to wear it.

Regardless of whether her father has ties to Tommy Robinson, the school's behaviour is unacceptable. Do the other children's parents have ties to TR? Is that why two carrying flags weren't allowed to do so, and the boy dressed up as a farmer was disallowed too?

I looked on the school website yesterday and there was no mention of the event at all, not even in calendars covering the whole of July. Someone had removed all mention very quickly.
If the father is a known supporter of tommy Robinson, then the school was extremely foolish in excluding her. Not every one dresses appropriately on these occasions , neither is it compulsory, so if the dress was intended to provoke they should simply have smiled and ignored it. Personally I think the dress was perfectly acceptable and appropriate, just not what they had in mind.
What did they have in mind for English children?

Presumably her teachers felt it was deeply inappropriate to wear a garment sewn out of, or to look like a national flag.

It would certainly cause a scandal in Denmark if anyone did go around dressed in our flag and I remember in the 1970s when it was briefly fashionable for very daring girls to wear shorts sewn of the Union Jack hearing of a German teenager seeing this and exclaiming in horror, "But you cannot sit down on your flag!"