Managers at The Willow Brook Centre have threatened to ban all students from the community school while wearing school uniform.
The threat was made to the headteacher of the school, Dave Baker, because of the behaviour of a “minority” of pupils.
Mr Baker said he has had to field complaints from both security staff and members of the public about some students.
In a recent meeting between the centre’s staff and the school a total ban “was mentioned”.
“I asked for students to be given the chance to prove that they could behave appropriately,” said Mr Baker, who says the threat had been lifted.
“This was communicated to students and, understandably, there was a sense of outrage from the vast majority of students who always behave appropriately.”
He has now appealed for pupils to behave while in the centre.
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1 Mr Puzzled // Oct 29, 2009 at 6:07 pm
“while in the centre” ??
why not all the time?
2 Miss confuzzled // Nov 2, 2009 at 7:22 pm
I feel doing so would be highly inappropriate for the students of the school as many go there staight from school making use of the conveniance of the centre in relation to their school. All students I have come across have been well behaved and the poor beaviour is definatley in its minority! Teenagers already have such a hard time from the media! So maybe a polite smile wouldnt go a miss! As I am aware of children of their age opening doors and smiling and not even getting as kind smile or a thankyou in return. Maybe it is true that children learn from our example?
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