A boy at Harris School is caught speaking on his mobile during assembly and justifiably his phone is taken off him...
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E
veryone accepts that the phone should not have been used at that time....
When it is pointed out that there are valid reasons why the boy should carry a phone the school relents, but instead of giving him back his own phone, they give him another confiscated phone.
Why? I don't understand. The school is penalising the boy just because they can and then being small minded when it is pointed out that their rule is not entirely appropriate.
I thought schools were there to educate young people... to teach them not just facts and figures, but also values, logic, fairness and justice.
What has the school to benefit from this behaviour?
Will the child benefit from their ridiculous episode.
If he learns anything it will be to pour scorn on his teachers and other authority figures.
Coming from a sensible and reasonable position in the first place, the teachers at Harris have made themselves look pretty silly to me and I'm sure a lot of other people.
The sensible thing would have been to make the boy hand in his phone on arrival and give it back to him when he leaves each day.
In all this of course the only innocent really, is the boy. He answered the phone to his father, who called becuase he thought it was important enough to do so.
The boy, realising it was inappropriate told his father he would have to hang up, but for his troubles in punished.
I'm sorry Steve Dobson, the head teacher's explanation doesn't add any sense to a senseless situation.
I think it is about time that they grew up!
