Author Archives: dchawcroft

I’ve been thinking all day about students with their heads bent over their desks. Well, perhaps not thinking about it, but the picture has come again and again into my mind. Along with the thought: what’s what the child, the … Continue reading →

This is a pretty blatant imposition upon people, isn’t it?  Did you see ‘newsletter 28’ ?  It had this in it, right on the front page: What does this mean?  It means not every child gets to school in a … Continue reading →

Despite what certain people say the evidence about school uniforms is that they are NOT good. What ‘certain people’ say is inevitably ill-informed, misinformed, inaccurate, misleading, unscientific – and, considering where it comes from, the mouths out of which it … Continue reading →

I guess it is the arrogance that upsets, mainly.  The arrogance of the school that wouldn’t put up safety signs – the arrogance of the woman that came hurtling out of the place to try to bar and challenge my … Continue reading →

Yes, what do I want? That’s the point. I was in a kind of incoherent rage at my child being singled out, unfairly treated, the calumny aimed at him, the unprofessionalism of the ‘professionals’, the danger into which he’d walked … Continue reading →

Well I don’t seem to have much to say for someone who reckons he’s got so much on his mind, found so much ‘wrongdoing’. So what am I on about? I better start by clearing that up. 1.  My son’s … Continue reading →

I want them to know that they are embarrassing and discomfiting my son with their school uniform cant.  That they are harming his emotional and social development.  That they are intruding upon my family’s private affairs and integrity. That they … Continue reading →