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Protests against education cuts at Hornsey School for Girls
Students at Hornsey School for Girls staged a sit down protest against the education cuts in their playground this morning. The school gates were then locked and no-one was being allowed to leave. The police were also called.
Several students who left earlier were approached by the police at Turnpike Lane station who were asking which school they attended and where they were going and why.
(thanks to Andy for this info)
Several students who left earlier were approached by the police at Turnpike Lane station who were asking which school they attended and where they were going and why.
(thanks to Andy for this info)
Tags for Forum Posts: education_cuts, hornsey_school_for_girls, public spending cuts
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Permalink Reply by matt on
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> Several students who left earlier were approached by the police at Turnpike Lane station who were asking which school they attended and were they were going and why.
''Best chicken 'n' fries are in town sir''
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Youth need a signed 'permission slip' to protest, otherwise the school will have to assume pupils off-site are missing, triggering police call and council Education Dept interest. Not something the school would want.
I remember when NZ was at the height of its anti-nuclear protests in the mid-80s, a pupil at my secondary school slipped away during lunch to join a protest against a nuclear sub coming into Auckland harbour. There were no gates to lock. NZ became a nuclear free country a year later, something the Americans weren't too happy about.
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update: Bristol school students say on BBC News 24 that their school allowed them to 'sign out' of their school to go and protest, assuming their parents were allowing them to.
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Permalink Reply by Old-Age-Emporium(OAE) on
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Doesn't detention mean anything anymore? Bring back Rhodes Boyson and corporal punishment, I say.
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Permalink Reply by Liz on
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Rhodes Boyson, now there's a candidate for the 'I thought you were dead' award. Turns out he's still with us, unlike corporal punishment, although I was amazed to discover they were still getting whacked until 1998 in private schools. Privilege gets you all sorts of perks.
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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on
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Rhodes Boyson still getting whacked until 98?
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Well, that's possible but I have never read about in the News of the World. No, I meant, private school pupils could still get six of the best until 1998.
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Why was that police van parked there ?
Watching the attack on the police van on the news tonight, i can't help feeling that the van was 'planted' or allowed to be vandalised by a huge enraged crowd that were prevented from leaving the immediate area for hours and hours where the van was 'parked'. I hope i'm wrong.
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Oh yes, good old Rhodes Boyson - supporter of section 28 and general homophobe.
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Permalink Reply by John D on
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Isn't it ironic that people ( not aimed at Hornsey School for Girls :-) )protesting against cuts in public spending destroy public property which will have to be replaced out of public funds ?
And the organisers always say that the bad behaviour was only by a small minority of the demonstrators. So why doesn't the large majority move in and stop it ?
As in this picture where the pupils are protecting the police van against vandalism -
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Permalink Reply by pamish on
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An interesting snippet on Facebook
Heiko Khoo: Police planted an old police van in Whitehall in the middle of 4000 demonstrators, we asked the police to remove it, they refused. Police only 20 yards from the van refused to protect it. They wanted it to be attacked. The 'attack' on the van was an excuse to kettle 4000 people for 8 hours, some 11 years old. We had no water or toilets for 5 hours. The news media worked with the police to fabricate the story.
Via the Nobody Likes A Tory page
Another story in the too-good-to-check category.
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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No it's not. Wait until it comes time for the Police to protest, there will be no-one around to take photos like this.
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Michelle, if your daughter is over 16, in the Sixth Form and had your permission to attend the Trafalgar Sq protest, then presumably she might have some grounds for grievance. (You don't say whether she was just an observer or an active participant in the assault on the
concentration campschool gates, closed (then locked) not unreasonably around Mid-morning Break.)
For children under 16, I take it HSSG management and teachers have a duty of care - we used to have a foolish notion that we were 'in loco parentis', even or especially when our charges were running loco around us. I'd hazard a wild guess that most of the apparently 13-15 year olds in your photograph didn't actually have in the forefront of their minds University or its rising costs, or their struggles 10-15 years hence to pay back their £30-40K debt.
Yes, schools and police (usually through their own liaison officer/s) do work together. (I think John and I are going to disagree on this one!) I'd have to wonder, Michelle, why as a HSSG parent you choose to post a photo of these young children on a public site. I don't think I would be allowed to do so.
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