My son’s school is like prison – they demanded I leave work immediately over a uniform rule with his SOCKS, it’s petty
A MUM has been left “fuming” after getting a call from her son’s school about the colour of his socks.
Liz has two boys at senior school – a 12-year-old and a 15-year-old – and insisted they’re “not bad kids”.
But in a video on her TikTok page, Liz revealed that three days before the end of the term, she received a call from the school.
“I’ve been phoned this morning to say that he has forgotten his tie and they are going to confiscate his phone as payment for a tie,” she explained.
“He’s refused to hand his his phone over which I don’t blame him really and so they’re gonna put him in isolation for the rest of the day.”
As she was processing that news, she then received another call five minutes later, to say that they’ve just noticed “he’s got white socks on rather than black socks”, and could “a parent bring his socks to the school immediately so that he can change?”
“I’m absolutely fuming,” Liz raged.
She phoned the school back and asked what act they were accusing her son of – asking if they’d found a knife or drugs in his bag, been in a fight, verbally abused the teachers or thrown chairs around the room.
“No, he’s got white socks on,” she said.
“So what? What difference does that make? Does it make any difference with his learning?”
Liz then made the decision to go and pick both of her sons up from school, and told staff that they “won’t be in for the rest of the term.
“They might not be back in September,” she added.
“Depends if I’ve calmed down or not!
“I’m absolutely fuming.
“How dare these schools treat kids like this and treat them like prisoners?”
She was even more outraged because his socks were mainly hidden by his trousers.
And as he waited for her to pick him up, her son was put into isolation anyway and given work that was four years too hard for him.
When he asked for help, she said he was shouted at for doing so.
“Is anyone else’s school or area like this?” she concluded.
“It’s just beyond me. Absolutely beyond me.
“I’m so mad!”
School Rules + Laws in the UK
- Can I home school my child in the UK?
- Is online school legal in the UK?
- Who is eligible for free school meals?
- What age should my child start nursery?
- What is an EHCP and what are the 5 stages?
But people in the comments section were divided as to whether or not Liz had done the right thing with her response to the school.
“You’re teaching them that rules don’t apply to them!” one wrote.
“Rules are there for a reason,” another added.
“You can’t have that attitude in the corporate world!”
“We can’t keep blaming schools, he shouldn’t be answering the teacher back regardless and should follow the rules,” a third commented.
“Children have to learn.”
“Rules are rules though, petty as it sounds if every kid showed up like that, what would happen?” someone else said.
But others were on Liz’s side, and slammed the “ridiculous” situation.
“I was I’m A&E last night and one Dr had a tracksuit on, another Dr had jeans and a tshirt on,” one wrote.
“Who cares what they wear, schools need to get a grip!”
“Sounds like the school my kids attend,” another said.
“They go into isolation if they sneeze. It’s a joke.
“In my days isolation was for doing something really bad.”
“Honestly high schools are ridiculous – my son got put in isolation because they had a random uniform check and he was wearing black nike socks with a little white tick on,” a third raged.