'Badge' row pupil returns to school

[snowfly]

Read this is last Wednesdays newspaper… she has returned to school with her badges, but it hasn’t been resolved yet,my own views is they should deal with the bullying, which I detest.

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The 15-year-old who claims she was bullied, says she wears the badges because she feels they protect her. She continues to refuse to remove them from her blazer because, to do so would be to suggest she was ashamed of what she stood for, and ashamed of her religion.

If you feel strongly enough about this issue you can use the contact form to air your opinion.

 

[mschrank]

as part of the school’s uniform code, badges of any sort were forbidden

This isn’t as bad as it sounds.

 

[Sr_Sally]

I can’t get the original article to come up, but if badge on the uniform blazer are forbidden (and I can understand why they’d do that) than she shouldn’t wear them there. She can wear them like a scapular or something in order to keep them near her. If she’s also being bullied (for being Christian, shy or whatever) that should be dealt with separately.

 

[Steeltemplar]

What is meant by “badges” in this case exactly? From the fact that she apparently wears them on her lapel, it sounds like they are small pins. Not exactly obtrusive.

 

[snowfly]

I can’t get the original article to come up, but if badge on the uniform blazer are forbidden (and I can understand why they’d do that) than she shouldn’t wear them there. She can wear them like a scapular or something in order to keep them near her. If she’s also being bullied (for being Christian, shy or whatever) that should be dealt with separately.

Well just for you, heres the young lady in question,** Catrina’s parents Ann and Vincent maintain no such rule exists in the school planner. **
“Catrina was nervous going into school on Monday,” her mother Ann explained this week. "She didn’t know what to expect or whether teachers would be against her, or not look at her. But she got a positive response. The pupils were amazing. When she got off the bus and went into the cloakrooms, they all cheered her and that lifted her spirits.

“She went to class and Mr Knox had a chat with her and sent a letter home to us. It said that a full Board of Governors’ meeting would be held after mid-term break to deal with relevant issues. Mid-term break is on Friday and Monday, but we have no word on when the meeting will be, we will just have to wait and see.”

However, the school Principal, Martin Knox said that as part of the school’s uniform code, badges of any sort were forbidden, and Catrina had consequently broken school rules by refusing to remove them from her lapel.

**Catrina’s parents Ann and Vincent maintain no such rule exists in the school planner. **

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What is meant by “badges” in this case exactly? From the fact that she apparently wears them on her lapel, it sounds like they are small pins. Not exactly obtrusive.

Well as you can see they aren’t exactly billboard size, I hope they get it resolved, I do wish they’d deal with the big issue of bullying and then deal with the small problem, instead of vice-versa.

Anyway it has blown up out of proportion, heres a link, hope it works.

 

[legeorge]

From the linked article:

As it is a Catholic school, and is not mixed religion, she feels her daughter is not offending anyone.

This is a Catholic school, suspending a student for wearing a St. Patrick pin and a guardian angel? What kind of nonsense is that?

 

[snowfly]

From the linked article:

This is a Catholic school, suspending a student for wearing a St. Patrick pin and a guardian angel? What kind of nonsense is that?

Yes, youve got it, it’s a Catholic school in Ireland with a Catholic girl wearing a badge of Saint Patrick, and a Guardian Angel, now how ironic is that ?

I wonder does Miss/Mrs Knox know St Patrick is the patron Saint of Ireland. ?