A mother has been threatened with prison after pulling her child out of school eight months ago in a row over her human rights.Was she being waterboarded!?
Pam Allen says St Helena School’s isolation room, where pupils are sent as a punishment, contravenes her 16-year-old daughter’s human rights.*sigh*
Ms Allen, called the room – which pupils stay in for six hours with only a 20-minute lunch break if they misbehave – an abuse.
But then, even if it was a terrible injustice, wouldn’t it only apply to those who breached the school’s behaviour rules anyway?
Ah, but therein lies the rub:
Her daughter, who she does not want named for fear of reprisals, was taken out of the Colchester school in March after she was accused of truancy and put in the isolation room.Great! It’s hard to see who is most in need of a spell in ‘The Cooler’, the daughter or her ignorant, pig-headed mother…
She has not attended school since.
Ms Allen, of Maidenburgh Street, Colchester, who owns her own catering business, said: “I don’t want my daughter to go to a school with an isolation unit. It is abuse.”If she was ill, you’d have phoned the school, then, wouldn’t you?
Ms Allen said she was told her daughter would have to complete her isolation punishment before being readmitted to school. “I was really very angry,” added Ms Allen.
“They said she was truanting, but she was ill.”
She has since asked for Essex County Council to give her the funding to have her daughter privately tutored during her final school year.Wow! Compounding idiocy with entitlement!
They are looking into study options while the girl is at home, but Ms Allen said the council’s refusal to give her the money meant her daughter was missing out on an education.And who’s fault is that? Not, so far as I can see, the council’s…
She added: “My daughter can’t do her GCSEs now because she has not done the coursework.I’m prepared to see you there. Maybe you can get one of your employees to bake you a cake with a file in it…
“I have been threatened with a court order. But I am prepared to go to jail on this.”
"Her daughter, who she does not want named for fear of reprisals..."
ReplyDeleteDuh! That'll be Pam Allen of Maidenburgh Street's 16 year old daughter at St Helena's School in Colchester. I'm glad it'll be really difficult to identify her!
< Devil's Advocate > If she's a taxpayer then she's already paid for her kid's education up front. Everybody does, including those who don't have kids, just like everyone pays for the NHS even if they're silly enough not to get sick. It's always seemed fair to me for those who don't use the pre-paid at gunpoint education system for whatever reason, even if it's because of some dispute over a school punishment, to ask for that money back. < Devil's Advocaat >
ReplyDeleteShe won't get it of course. I think someone once sued their LEA for the per pupil costs towards his daughter's private education and was told to bugger off.
Oddly enough my initial response to
ReplyDelete"...does not want [the daughter to be] named for fear of reprisals...
was to wonder how many girls with the surname Allen there are in the school, but then I realized that it doesn't work like that these days, does it?
"...but then I realized that it doesn't work like that these days, does it?"
ReplyDeleteNo Sir. Especially if this is an inner city school, where not having a name that looks like it was pulled out of a scrabble bag will make her stand out like a bulldog's under-carriage.
< Devil's Advocaat >
ReplyDeleteAnd there I was thinking that the yellowish substance associated with the hornèd one was sulphur and it turns out to have been egg-nog all along!
"Duh! That'll be Pam Allen of Maidenburgh Street's 16 year old daughter at St Helena's School in Colchester."
ReplyDeleteWell, indeed!
"...was to wonder how many girls with the surname Allen there are in the school, but then I realized that it doesn't work like that these days, does it?"
Sadly, no..