Families have suffered loss of income, loss of family members and n some cases loss of businesses.
Our children and young people have also suffered enormously.
Mental health services reported an increase of referrals by 68% in March 2021 when compared to March 2019.
Our children have been unable to sit examinations that they have worked over 10 years for.
Those working towards their examinations have been adversely effected by the break in education, many young people reported difficulties in online learning.
Therefore when schools returned to face to face teaching, rather naively I believed that our young people and children would be supported both in terms of their mental health, and academic learning.
Sadly this has not been the experience of many young people attending James Calvert Spence College.
The focus has significantly been on uniform, having gone to the lengths of reprimanding young people for showing ankles, physically measuring skirts, stipulating the width of trouser legs.
I absolutely see the need for a school uniform and fully support this, however our children attend school to be educated, the width of their trouser leg, length of skirt and type of shoe does not impact on their ability to learn,
Young people are receiving punishments for not having the ‘correct uniform’ leading to missing teaching, young people not wanting to attend for fear of getting into trouble.
Parents are doing the best that they can under difficult circumstances, our young people are doing the best that they can given the situation they find themselves in.
All we ask for is some common sense in relation to uniform and actual support for your students, when compared to other schools in local areas the JCSC uniform policy is overly strict and non inclusive, other schools achieve academic results on par with JCSC and therefore we request that the policy is relaxed for our young people.
Updates
September 24, 2021
The stories coming in about how uniform policies are disrupting classroom time are alarming. Please email your local school board representative today to demand they prioritize teaching over skirt lengths. We cannot let them ignore these reports of students missing lessons for minor infractions.
September 24, 2021
The momentum behind this push for uniform reform shows that people are tired of seeing students punished for their clothing instead of focused on their learning. Take a moment to text three friends and ask them to sign this today. We need to keep this pressure on the administration until they change their priorities.
8 Comments
Education is the highest priority not uniform! Yet to see a jcsc pupil looking scruffy
The uncalled for punishments that JCSC dishes out towards its pupils who have uniform issues is nothing short of senseless and it’s bordering on obsessive nit picking and victimisation. If a child grows out of or loses a blazer for instance and the supplier doesn’t have their size in stock or the family don’t have the funds available to replace it then that child should not be reprimanded or singled out for something that is outside of their control! What a child wears (or doesn’t wear) does not in any way impact their brains ability to process information!
They need to concentrate on education first and foremost.
Absolutely ridiculous
Measuring skirts
Never known a school so bad its more like a prison than a school
Uniform policy is getting beyond a joke picking on pupils
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Families have suffered loss of income, loss of family members and n some cases loss of businesses.
Our children and young people have also suffered enormously.
Mental health services reported an increase of referrals by 68% in March 2021 when compared to March 2019.
Our children have been unable to sit examinations that they have worked over 10 years for.
Those working towards their examinations have been adversely effected by the break in education, many young people reported difficulties in online learning.
Therefore when schools returned to face to face teaching, rather naively I believed that our young people and children would be supported both in terms of their mental health, and academic learning.
Sadly this has not been the experience of many young people attending James Calvert Spence College.
The focus has significantly been on uniform, having gone to the lengths of reprimanding young people for showing ankles, physically measuring skirts, stipulating the width of trouser legs.
I absolutely see the need for a school uniform and fully support this, however our children attend school to be educated, the width of their trouser leg, length of skirt and type of shoe does not impact on their ability to learn,
Young people are receiving punishments for not having the ‘correct uniform’ leading to missing teaching, young people not wanting to attend for fear of getting into trouble.
Parents are doing the best that they can under difficult circumstances, our young people are doing the best that they can given the situation they find themselves in.
All we ask for is some common sense in relation to uniform and actual support for your students, when compared to other schools in local areas the JCSC uniform policy is overly strict and non inclusive, other schools achieve academic results on par with JCSC and therefore we request that the policy is relaxed for our young people.
Updates
September 24, 2021
The stories coming in about how uniform policies are disrupting classroom time are alarming. Please email your local school board representative today to demand they prioritize teaching over skirt lengths. We cannot let them ignore these reports of students missing lessons for minor infractions.
September 24, 2021
The momentum behind this push for uniform reform shows that people are tired of seeing students punished for their clothing instead of focused on their learning. Take a moment to text three friends and ask them to sign this today. We need to keep this pressure on the administration until they change their priorities.
8 Comments
The most important point here is the children IN SCHOOL to get the help & support needed
Education is the highest priority not uniform! Yet to see a jcsc pupil looking scruffy
The uncalled for punishments that JCSC dishes out towards its pupils who have uniform issues is nothing short of senseless and it’s bordering on obsessive nit picking and victimisation. If a child grows out of or loses a blazer for instance and the supplier doesn’t have their size in stock or the family don’t have the funds available to replace it then that child should not be reprimanded or singled out for something that is outside of their control! What a child wears (or doesn’t wear) does not in any way impact their brains ability to process information!
They need to concentrate on education first and foremost.
Absolutely ridiculous
Measuring skirts
Never known a school so bad its more like a prison than a school
Uniform policy is getting beyond a joke picking on pupils
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The most important point here is the children IN SCHOOL to get the help & support needed