Quote Originally Posted by JamesWales View Post
Top marks for picking up on a minute part of the story there. You know she wasn't expelled from the school, but she was removed from the class. Removed, perhaps was the better word to use ��
Minute part? The consequences are the whole point of the story!

I would imagine the idea of the event was to recognise the different cultures within the school. Most of the kids are probably British anyway (I put the school postcode here https://crystalroof.co.uk/report/pos...T/demographics and the area is 86% White British), but here is one event or day to celebrate and learn from other cultures within the school - the other cultures and not the dominant one that is represented every day. One day for children who don't look like the others to know they are accepted, and talk about where their grandparents live..

The school clearly didn't handle it well. Before, they should have made clear that it was not about being ashamed of British culture or excluding it. On the day, they didn't handle it sensitively enough. But I can see that if they'd allowed a union jack dress then the following year half the kids might come in as if it's the last night of the proms, and then it's not a celebration of other cultures within the school.

It's clearly been weaponised since if she's going to do the speech at a Tommy Robinson rally. The school has had to shut for the summer holidays early because staff are being threatened. It all leaves me thinking 'this is why we can't have nice things'.