Change Todmorden High Schools Seclusion Policy. And change it now!!!

tod high is awful

i asked school to let me go back into my science lesson as its one of the main lessons I need in my career!

Charge us for taking kids on a holiday yet it's ok for them to do this ? Wallys !

even people in prison get a hot meal

who decides this is a way to punish children!!! ridiculous

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Stupid people trying to make potentially bright young things dull and even more angery. This is the road to hell!

Given that seclusion is used for matters such as non proper compliance of uniform and forgetting their journal this is disgusting.

we pay £2 for a meal then im sorry they should get a meal of their choice not have their human rights taken away from them

use seclusion for serious matters and not petty little things

absolutely disgusting. I myself didn't realise this. well done for making a stand

big changes are needed in tod high

I also found this punishment to be a disgrace and out dated response. How is putting them in a room with nothing to do and starving them helpful towards there education!! Ridiculous you just end up with children panicking about attending School or just not going in at all.

I find this ridiculous! especially when most parents pay for there child to have a hot meal

Valid point, yet id also like to point out the ridiculous reasons why you are put in seclusion such as: not having black socks, all black shoes (with no branding) no calculator, no ruler, no pen, no pencil. I think this is a very right wing policy, and lowers the children's self esteem, it also glorifies dictatorship, and tod high is a huge dictator, instead of a democratic school where everyone has a voice, rules are put foward without a range of opinions or proper intelligent, long, hard research. All the children are made to look the same, if u ask me, its not far off being a concentration camp of what the new staff think is a perfect human being, im sorry but fashion expresses and individuals personality, but clearly the staff at tod high are too thick to realise this, yet me at 17 years old can, good school that isn't it...... Not!!!

I think the seclusion policy is a good idea based on my son's observations on the difference it has made-and he has been secluded quite a few times, but now he organises himself better, brings his planner, turns up to the right lesson etc- and my own experience of teaching in schools where disruptive behaviour is allowed to flourish. Before it was introduced it was common practice for kids to have their mobiles out in class, pushing and shoving in the corridors and constant disruptive behaviour in the classroom. How does that help the childrens learning. Also all the children are treated equally whether they are A students or those that struggle at school. Tod high is a good school and I think we should applaud their efforts to make it so.

It's not supposed to be relevant to their school work it's supposed to be a consequence of their actions. To set individual work for each child who goes to seclusion would be an impossible task. Hopefully the child involved would get the message that misbehaving, turning up late, not bringing their equipment to the lesson is not acceptable and won't go into seclusion again. People on here think that not bringing your pen is a minor issue but at the start of a lesson if ten children don't have their equipment needed for the lesson then the teacher needs to deal with that. While he is sorting that out there is a space for more disruptive behaviour then he has to get the class refocused, then ten minutes later the children don't have their calculators-more disruption and an opportunity for children to shout out etc. More time refocusing, more chaos. I've worked in schools and it's impossible to teach and keep order with all that disruption going on.