Teacher orders boy to remove Help for Heroes wristband 'because it might cause offence'

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<p>Just to add fuel to the flames:-<br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><h1>Teacher orders boy, 10, to remove Help for Heroes wristband worn in memory of Lee Rigby 'because it might cause offence'</h1><ul><li><strong><font style="font-size: 1.4em;">Tracy Tew's son Charlie was put on report card at Maldon Primary School <br /></font></strong></li><li><strong><font style="font-size: 1.4em;">Refused to take off charity rubber bracelet sold to honour injured soldiers</font></strong></li><li><strong><font style="font-size: 1.4em;">Charlie wears item in honour of Rigby and service personnel in his family</font></strong></li><li><strong><font style="font-size: 1.4em;">Mrs Tew, 38, says: 'We are really proud of Charlie for sticking to his guns'</font></strong></li><li><strong><font style="font-size: 1.4em;">Essex school insists wearing any wristband is against its jewellery policy</font></strong></li><li><strong><font style="font-size: 1.4em;">H4H 'haven't heard of any health and safety incident connected to them'<br /></font></strong></li></ul><p class="author-section">By<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/search.html?s=&authornamef=Mark+Duell">Mark Duell</a></p><p class="byline-section"><span class="article-timestamp article-timestamp-published"> <span class="article-timestamp-label">Published:</span> 09:33 GMT, 12 March 2014</span> | <span class="article-timestamp article-timestamp-updated"> <span class="article-timestamp-label">Updated:</span> 11:08 GMT, 12 March 2014</span></p><div> <ul><li><br /></li><li><br /></li><li><br /></li><li> <span class="g-interactivepost"> </span> <br /></li><li> <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2578994/Teacher-orders-boy-10-remove-Help-Heroes-wristband-worn-memory-Lee-Rigby.html#socialLinks"> </a> <br /></li></ul> <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2578994/Teacher-orders-boy-10-remove-Help-Heroes-wristband-worn-memory-Lee-Rigby.html#comments"> <p class="count-number"> 425</p> <p class="count-text">View comments</p> </a></div><br /><p><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">A teacher allegedly ordered a 10-year-old boy to take off his Help for Heroes wristband because it could cause offence.</font></p><p><font style="font-size: 1.2em;">Tracy Tew was shocked when her son Charlie was put on a report card at Maldon Primary School in Essex after he refused to take off the charity rubber bracelet sold to honour injured..........</font></p><br />Read more: <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2578994/Teacher-orders-boy-10-remove-Help-Heroes-wristband-worn-memory-Lee-Rigby.html#ixzz38wp1tjU3">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2578994/Teacher-orders-boy-10-remove-Help-Heroes-wristband-worn-memory-Lee-Rigby.html#ixzz38wp1tjU3</a><br /><br /><p>&nbsp;</p>
 
My personal view; the teacher was an idiot, the head teacher is correct in banning the band though as it's against uniform policy.....nothing to do with what the band symbolises.
 
My view is that we should be able to support our Forces. If people take offence to this then they know where the boarders are. Our country is too soft.
 
I have no problem with that concept but IF and it's a very important "if", IF the school has a policy that forbids the wearing of bracelets then this is not a matter for anything or anyone other than the school policy on jewellery. It is irrelevant whether or not the arm band symbolises or is in the support of Help for Heroes, The Royal British Legion or even the Muppet Show. If the teacher said what is claimed then they should be reprimanded or at least corrected by the Head Teacher who seems to have given the correct and reasonable answer.
 
Essex school insists wearing any wristband is against its jewellery policy
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That's the story.

Parents after 15 seconds of fame.

Daily Fail lap up as it suits their agenda.

"A teacher allegedly ordered..."

Bollocks did they.
 
mike_field - 30/7/2014 12:57

Essex school insists wearing any wristband is against its jewellery policy
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That's the story.

Parents after 15 seconds of fame.

Daily Fail lap up as it suits their agenda.

"A teacher allegedly ordered..."

Bollocks did they.
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More importantly, what a fat little git. His Mum should be ashamed allowing him to eat so much.
 
What a load of CRAP!

Jewellery is supposed to be brooches, rings, necklaces, earrings and bracelets (silver, gold/gold plated etc) not an inoffensive rubber wristband, which happens to support Help The Heroes!

Personally, I would be telling the school to pee up the wall and play with the steam!!...........

 
mike_field - 30/7/2014 12:57

Essex school insists wearing any wristband is against its jewellery policy
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That's the story.

Parents after 15 seconds of fame.

Daily Fail lap up as it suits their agenda.

"A teacher allegedly ordered..."

Bollocks did they.
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:1: :1:
 
Wristbands are jewelry, if you don't stop them, then you can't stop the friendship bands and all the other things as well.
 
Jewellery policy affects everything worn that's not uniform.

Give it 5 yrs with idiot parents whinging because they can't be bothered to make little Johnny or Joan stick to it, and schools will blanket policy to include 'and all worn accessories' for the simpletons mate.

Our eldest has a few bands etc and there's usually a little more freedom for that type of expression in secondary/high schools, but he's 10 so presumably Junior/Primary level.

I'm still waiting for her to come back and say she's not allowed to wear them anymore.
 
mike_field - 30/7/2014 12:57

Essex school insists wearing any wristband is against its jewellery policy
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That's the story.

Parents after 15 seconds of fame.

Daily Fail lap up as it suits their agenda.

"A teacher allegedly ordered..."

Bollocks did they.
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That was the "eventual" story yes. But the teacher(who seen the band 1st) said it could offend.

Its obviously got to Headmaster and its "oh no lets not go down the offend road, we can stitch in with uniform policy instead".
 
Did she, were you there?

Funny how on stories where little Johnny objects to something that's against stated and known school policy, the teachers always play the offence card, instead of doing what teachers do, cite school rules.
 
Help 4 Heroes are c**ts. The boy buying the band just swelled the coffers of the share holders. He should had brought a RBL wrist band who would ensure a percentage of the sale would go on to help all Ex Service men and women and not those post 2008, like H4H
 
Allegedly is a libel cop out that doesn't actually work - the implication is with allegedly you aren't stating it as fact.

A teacher claiming something could cause offence is not libellous anyway, and not actionable in anyway shape or form.

The irrelevance of the phrasing should tell people all they need to know about the validity of the story.
 
At the end of the day, the teacher could have just left it. Kids wear these friendship bracelets, rubber beads etc and a blind eye is usually turned.
 
Not if the school doesn't 'turn a blind eye' to friendship bands etc. It's a primary school, not secondary.

Schools give more leeway for expression at the age it serves a development purpose - the teenage years. Not to ten years old with a chip and parents who want 15 seconds of fame.

But the Fail investigating that element of the story would no doubt end in one place, it wouldn't be a piece they could use and get tempers going again about their favourite topic...those of a different skin colour.
 
Green Tea - 30/7/2014 14:34

At the end of the day, the teacher could have just left it. Kids wear these friendship bracelets, rubber beads etc and a blind eye is usually turned.
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Why should it be? If they allow one, what is the justification in not allowing another? There is either a rule or not, if it's there then it should be kept and if consensus agrees that it's an inappropriate rule then the rules can and should be changed but while the rule is t\enforced for some it should be enforced for all.

 
SKEGGY - 30/7/2014 13:37

Slow news day on here the article is from march
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They republished then or newsnow is having a skitz lol

Gave us something to do and saved me from working for a bit!
 
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