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This is disgraceful https://t.co/mkmliHYkfl
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Those attitudes were out of date decades ago.
Await Tories prattling about 'discipline'.
The problem here is clipboardism taken to the point of insanity.
People in the category you describe will ignore the paperwork and licensing.
The answer is it does go on, very frequently. However, because it is impossible to work in education without a reference from your previous school, the pressure to accept a settlement including that reference and sign an NDA is immense.
I’m not even sure if that is legal, certainly not for criminal matters, but it has happened to colleagues of mine in every single school I have worked in. Indeed, in one school I kicked up such a fuss over the head using NDAs to cover up his predatory behaviour he threatened me with violence.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-66796263
Aren’t they just designed to intimidate? And they won’t work if you refuse to be intimidated. I note that Harvey Weinstein has yet to initiate legal action against those who breached the NDAs concerning his predatory behaviour.
Monty Python in true life.
Exactly the same questions that we have seen before - the philosophy of all pupils being treated the same is excellent, however when it's run by, as pointed out, a man with a clipboard and possibly a financial incentive, La-La-Land beckons.
Just chinos and a Jeff Banks patterned shirt - like a younger, slimmer version of James May without the chins, the pipe, and the Worzel Gummidge hairdo.
I agree, it’s disgusting. But it definitely happens.
If Keegan wants to do something useful sorting that out would help a lot. But since she doesn’t even act on falling classrooms or major safeguarding breaches involving Ofsted I won’t hold my breath.
Like much of our law it isn't enforced, and the answer to lack of enforcement isn't other laws that also won't be used.
There are also people like this owner that are really in denial about their potential killer:
XL Bully owner who allows children to pet dog insists he is 'loving' https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12512693/xl-bully-owners-hit-loving-dog-amid-calls-ban-breed.html?ito=native_share_article-nativemenubutton
Edit: ah I've found it.
It is quite striking to see how immaculate African school children dress, even coming out of shanty towns.
They are using misleading pictures in the BBC news story.
The problem here is best case as you described, cynically, it has the stench of corruption. The school probably gets a kickback from the "official suppliers" would be my guess.
Would be much better if schools said pupils had to wear plain trousers or skirts from a set colour palate - dark blue, black, grey, bottle green with plain white shirts with a collar, plain blazer or jumper and a school tie that is the same for everyone.
Still looks smarter than shit uniforms but easier for parents to buy if financially squeezed and doesn’t allow the arms race of wealthy parents dressing their kids in designer gear and depressing those who don’t have the money.
The use of the reference system as part of this bullying behaviour is also completely typical.
The story schools tell themselves about skirts and trousers is that branding then the only way to ensure that the cut is suitably unfashionably loose. At one place I taught, there was a thriving needlework culture of buying the official trousers and... adjusting them.
Still, a valuable life skill, I suppose.
Though I would add that this policy should be introduced under an NDA, so anyone trying to complain about not being allowed to fire NDAs at people would be in breach of an NDA.
However, the specific British issue is the sweetheart deal which schools cut with expensive local suppliers - the school gets a rake-off for every uniform sold. I took it up when an MP by writing to the competition authorites, arguing that parents should be free to choose the cheapest supplier if the clothing was otherwise identical (whether they really were in this case is a side-issue). My complaint was rejected - I forget why - but I still think it's indefensible - a clear use of monopoly power by both the school and the supplier.
Incidentally, the punishment of the child for a decision by the parents is even more indefensible. WTAF?
Edit: or for emphasis indulge in fake news as I believe it's called now.
We've had "I'll stop funding LTNs" from numpty Mark Harper, before he even knew what one was. We've had "Govt will cancel the ULEZ under the GLA Act 1999", before they discovered it would not be a suitable use of the power. We've had ambitions for Active Travel essentially abolished to shave about 1p off the price of petrol for a few months. We've had "Number Plates for Cyclists" by numpty Grant Shapps, whilst he was in possession of a report from his own department explaining why the proposal was BS.
Now we have legislative time to create Death / Serious Injury by Dangerous Cycling.
A comprehensive review of road legislation was promised in 2018 or so, and everyone in the field has been asking for it to happen since, which would give a chance for thought not PR stunts, incorporate the above and many other things which are needed, including putting rational definitions in place for "Dangerous" and "Careless".
Govt Response: Crickets and Arse Sitting.
Of the 8 or 9 occurrences of pedestrian death caused by collision with a cyclist over the last decade, I can only think of *one* where the cyclist did not receive a prison sentence - that was Robert Mobey.
Meanwhile it is unusual for a motor vehicle driver where a pedestrian is killed in a collision to get a prison sentence. The last number I saw was one in ten.
What a shitshow this Govt has become.
Tens of thousands of sixth-form students could be left without a suitable study programme under the Government’s “reckless” plans to reform post-16 vocational qualifications, a report suggests.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/btec-tlevels-geoff-barton-robert-halfon-government-b2411108.html
Reforming BTec qualifications wasn't itself a bad idea, but the replacements (T Levels, to cash in on A Level cachet) are running late, very hard for schools and small colleges to deliver, and probably too difficult for the core target audience.
But "world class".
America and the free world can’t handle much more of this. Democrats must act to replace the president
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/09/13/biden-is-becoming-dangerous-remove-him-before-its-too-late/
Father Dougal: I read an article about priest's socks, that priest's socks are blacker than any other socks.
Father Ted: That's right. Sometimes you see lay people wearing apparently black socks, but if you look closely, they are really very, very, very very dark blue.
Father Dougal: That's true. I thought my Uncle Tommy was wearing black socks but when i look at them closely, they were just very, very, very, very, very, very dark blue.
Father Ted: Never buy black socks in a normal shop. They will shaft you every time.
https://archer.fandom.com/wiki/Turtleneck
He told Woodhouse to sort them by color, because five are dark black and the other five are a slightly darker black.
https://youtu.be/NEsPN_yR7KE?si=UXVd__r-JeXBo6ZR
Schools have a uniform selection of colours they can select between that are stocked by supermarkets (and required by statutory guidance mentioned above). Hence why all the kids going to primary schools in blue or red t shirts have the same shade of blue or red.
If the school has chosen an improper colour that's the schools fault, not the parents. Like a school insisting their uniform t shirt isn't red, it's magenta.
If we examine first the law because it gives us a good entry into the ethics. When it comes to indirect discrimination against people with protected characteristics, an example would be hiring someone who needs to interact with customers who speak Welsh. Clearly, when stipulating that the candidate is a fluent Welsh speaker, you're going to be filtering out disproportionately large numbers of people on a number of characteristics. The racial, age, and religious profile of the average Welsh speaker is different to the national average. But such a requirement would be legal and ethical. Legal because of the objective justification rule, and ethical because putting such an absurd restraint on employers that prevents them making good hiring decisions core to their business model would be a restriction on their economic freedom. Moreover, it would end up having detrimental effects on those customers with the very same range of protected characteristics!
The same thing goes for immigration policy. The fact that we had more relaxed rules on workers from EU countries was part of the objective justification of closer economic integration with neighbouring countries. It was a key aim of British foreign policy to reduce trade friction within our region for the economic well-being of our population. The four freedoms: goods, services, capital and persons, are what was judged to be the pillars of economic integration.
All of this is very clear and out in the open and, to repeat, is just how economies work within modern countries. Well, well functioning ones, at least.
Very clearly you don't support those EU aims, but we don't have to get into that and besides, you got your way. But you do need to let go of this stance that it is wrong because you are cheapening the good work that indirect discrimination legislation does by denying the ethical case for innocent practices that do indirectly discriminate but are legally and ethically justified if we are to have any economic freedom whatsoever. Rules (be they legal or ethical) should never be held so absolutely that they lead us into absurdity. Hiring a "diverse" non-Welsh speaker to speak to your Welsh-speaking customers would be an example of such absurdity, and as such an indirect discrimination argument needs to be thought about but not worshipped above all other gods.
I did read a memoir by a RTR tankie who recalled the time they moved to a former barracks in Germany and couldn't understand the reaction of the locals till it was explained to them that the barracks' previous owners had been the SS.
If they're discriminating against girls, that's idiotic. They're also discriminating against poorer families who can't afford to shop at Kickback Clothing. I imagine this is a local comp which has been effectively privatised, so parents may not have much of a choice in being able to send their kids to a school not run by stards.
I’m nobody’s idea of a Tory, but there is still something quite sad about the decline of a once proud and serious party that has turned into a sclerotic UKIP-lite, foregoing any sense of rational policy-making to nose down whatever idiotic blind alley of populism that could grub them an extra few votes.
Unsurprisingly, the DM readers fetishise the uniform.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12496487/Uniform-anger-School-pupils-roam-streets-sent-home-wearing-wrong-clothes-pupils-detention-having-renegade-shoes-forced-wear-blazers-heat.html
He probably broke some laws, but the Biden administration looks to be abusing its power by weaponising the Justice Department to destroy him.
In both cases the SS were JohnnyComeLately.
Mind you, my grandfather (WWI veteran) caused a moment in the pub, when talking to some soldiers on leave (WWII). They’d been explaining that they shot out of hand any Germans in all black. As being SS. He pointed out that they were almost certainly tank crew.
Payments made with cash rose for the first time in a decade last year as consumers struggled with rising prices.
But the number is still dwarfed by debit card use which accounted for half of all payments, its highest ever level.
Consumers often say they find it easier to manage their money using cash.
However UK Finance, which compiled the data, said it expected cash use to decline over the coming years, once the current financial squeeze has eased.
Even during cost of living pressures and the emergence from lockdowns, it said nearly 22 million people only used cash only once a month or not at all last year. That compares with just under one million who mainly used cash.
a) some Hunter conspiracy stuff
b) ‘sleepy Joe’
In an interview with The Times the Labour leader pledged that he would “smash the gangs” by expanding the use of civil orders that are used to target serious criminals, terrorists and drug traffickers.
The Labour leader says he will ultimately seek an EU-wide returns agreement for asylum seekers who come to Britain. He says that the “quid pro quo” of any deal, such as accepting quotas of migrants from the EU, would be for future negotiations with Brussels.
In a clear dividing line with the Tories, Starmer confirmed that he would drop Conservative plans to ban cross-Channel migrants from claiming asylum in Britain. He described the government approach as unsustainable and said: “We have to process the claims. Those who aren’t entitled to be here should be returned and returned quickly.”
He said that the government’s policy of sending migrants to Rwanda was inhumane, ineffective and represented poor value for money.
His comments represent his first significant intervention in the small boats crisis, an issue that will form a key part of next year’s general election campaign. The Labour leader said he wanted to take the same approach to people-smugglers as is used for terrorists and serious criminals.
“The features are the same,” he said. “Very few terrorist operations are within one nation, one border. They are nearly all cross-border. They are highly organised and involve the movement of people and apparatus across borders. There’s usually a lot of finance involved.”
Starmer wants to expand the use of serious crime prevention orders, which are used to restrict individuals’ movements and freeze their assets. They can be applied to suspects before they have been convicted. Starmer said he was prepared to change the law so they can be used against people-traffickers.
“They’ve been used, these powers, for terrorism, for drug trafficking, but they’ve never been used for serious, organised immigration crime,” he says. “My own view is that they should be used for that.”
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/keir-starmer-immigration-plan-channel-crossings-uk-2023-rv3qmqtmp
For once we should get ahead of the curve. In America, cops have been found to be seizing stuff they want, and buying it for personal use for pennies at “auctions”.
Why not open this up to the general public - a website where you can specify in advance what you want seized? Steal to order…
Oh, and for a fun topic crossover - in America, a ridiculous percentage of seizures are moderate amounts of cash. From black men.
https://archive.ph/GIF73
Allistair Heath "acknowledging" that Trump has "broken some laws", yet trying to lay responsibility for what is happening mainly on Biden's shoulders - for example by accusing him of being near senile and setting the DoJ on Trump.
Heath underplaying Trump's deliberate attempts to undermine the result of the last Election by creating a slate of false electoral reporters to report altered electoral data, having obtained the data by theft, then leaving Republican aligned bodies to "sort out the situation" and select Trump's fake version - thus falsely winning him the Election.
The use of ‘terrorist’ as a catch all term for the bogeyman de jour is pretty wanky at the best of times.
I rarely use it and it's use will diminish but I expect it will be still in use for many years to come
I simply do not see why it causes such controversy
Asda:
Rawcliffe:
Different. I mean if you are going to have a school uniform then have a school uniform or don't bother. What about all the children who abided by the rule and then see someone else come in and pay half what they had to pay.
On topic just where has common sense gone not just on the uniforms but ULEZ and blanket 20 mph in Wales
Sensible implementation of these changes would avoid unnecessary controversy
Another factor is that irrecoverable fraud involving cash is higher than compared to cards.
There's a reason more and more shops that use cash put up signs saying 'No £50 or Scottish notes.'
And are the teachers obliged to buy from the official supplier ?
It is without doubt that many of them are resourceful and it does make sense to DIY their crossings, though it is as dangerous as ever
BTW I am in the south of Spain this week. Forecast to reach 31degC today. Back to the British autumn on Sunday, alas.
The NHS employed an estimated 1.96 million people in June 2023, an increase of 21,000 (1.1%) compared with March 2023 and an increase of 78,000 (4.1%) compared with June 2022.
https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/publicsectorpersonnel/bulletins/publicsectoremployment/june2023
And an increase of 266,000 since 2019 and 402,000 since 2010.
Have any Conservative MPs noticed this ?
That's completely different to insisting on a different shade so that people can't get it affordably.
Starmer does live in the real world where getting a returns deal with the EU would entail something in return whereas Sunak thinks the EU are going to take returns with zero reciprocity.
Suffice to say that black is not a shade of grey.
If they've chosen an inappropriate colour that can't be purchased at supermarkets then that's the schools fault. Just as if they chose neon green as the colour. There's a range of acceptable colours for school uniforms that are able to be chosen, choosing a different shade of grey, or a different shade of red, or a colour not otherwise a available, is not acceptable.
Some years back, my wife had a serious falling out with a head (who was essentially a sociopath), but was able to find a new job without too much hassle.
I don't think it is appropriate to make a pun/gag about schoolgirl uniforms and Fifty Shades of Grey.
Oh shit, I just did.