Great School This Is.

[tommy.irene]

www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/huge-response-after-bedworth-pupil-7466614   

Huge response after pupil banned from end-of-term celebration for taking day off to go to mum's funeral

[bankhaunter]

Perhaps they thought the school may have attempted to correct the scheme's insufficiencies rather than simply end it.

The problem with an all or nothing scheme is that it doesn't  encourage those who know they cannot reach the all so they might as well go for the nothing.

More graduated rewards would push those who cannot come first to at least still aim for second.

[upthecreekyetagain]

I think this comment on one of the articles best sums up my views on this.

"Maddie was simply not included. She was NOT deliberately excluded. She certainly wasn't banned as the press report. And she most definitely was not being punished for attending her Mother's funeral as the worst excesses of the media have suggested! The notion that there was some cold, callous, heartless and punitive decision making going on at the school defies belief."

and this if true makes the father's actions beyond belief!

"Some have called for the teachers, headteacher and even the governors to be sacked or resign. It is worth noting that Andy Stevens is a former governor of St Giles School and was instrumental in the appointment of the now villified headteacher. Having enjoyed an effective working relationship with her until he was obliged to step down as a governor, you would have thought he would have felt able to discuss his anger and disappointment with her. But no, when he contacted the school, it was to inform them that he was going to speak to the Daily Mail. He declined to talk to the headteacher. How has this in any way benefited the school he once sought to serve?"

[bankhaunter]

Talking about sackings or resignations is completely OTT, the school's error was having an over simple scheme which didn't allow for the possibly inevitable unusual event and not seeing it at the time.

That sort of thing happens in one way or another quite often, when my kids were at school it was decided one year that the limited tickets for a school trip would be allocated on a first come first served basis on a particular morning, it didn't sink in to them that those children using the school bus would have no chance against those living within walking distance and who could get there early.

[lambsy_uk]

Re: Great School This Is.in reply to bankhaunter on ‎02-08-2014 08:33 AM "Some have called for the teachers, headteacher and even the governors to be sacked or resign. It is worth noting that Andy Stevens is a former governor of St Giles School and was instrumental in the appointment of the now villified headteacher. Having enjoyed an effective working relationship with her until he was obliged to step down as a governor, you would have thought he would have felt able to discuss his anger and disappointment with her. But no, when he contacted the school, it was to inform them that he was going to speak to the Daily Mail. He declined to talk to the headteacher. How has this in any way benefited the school he once sought to serve?" ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ Unfortunately we live in a society with a good measure of gullible people who let themselves be led by unethical morons!