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Kids…

One child sees the other child is awake but still in bed reading so he goes to join him perhaps touches him, gets rejected… whatever… starts loudly protesting about the actions of the other one. Then the other one gets up and maintains … Continue reading

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The Truth About Children

Hummm… when is the Truth About Children ever going to be told? I realise it is difficult. They are so terrible, so awful, so totally destructive that one cannot remember what they’ve done to you when you finally reach the … Continue reading

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Sticklers For Rules and Regulations

Makes you wonder, doesn’t it?  Look at this lot: Make you weep, wouldn’t it? Change the name to ‘Stalag South’. There’s prisons with fewer rules, I’m sure. Did you ever imagine anything like it?  Was there anything like that when … Continue reading

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The Facts

The facts of the matter are that school uniforms do not do what they are supposed to do. This is not the fault of school uniforms.  Bits of cloth. It is the fault of those who ‘suppose’ things they’ll do. … Continue reading

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Bending the Head

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

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What Is Needed?

I’m a bit incoherent here, have been, still am.  I started doing this because of a charge of indignation I got about the way my child was being treated at school and the way the Department of Education responded to … Continue reading

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It's Pretty Blatant

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

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The Evidence Is Everywhere

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

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It's The Arrogance I Guess……

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

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So What Do I Want?

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

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