It’s the start of year at Hartsdown Academy in Margate. Bright and bushy-tailed pupils leave home to go through the school gates – and about 50 not so bright and bushy-tailed pupils get sent back home again. No entry. The headteacher Matthew Tate is having a crackdown. It’s what heads do at this time of year.
This one’s about dress code. He’s coming down like billyho on the smallest sartorial peccadillo – wrong shoes, wrong trousers, no blazer, no trousers and, it seems, “gold buckles on shoes and frills on socks”. Eh? Who are these Little Lord Fauntleroys? Whatever, they must go back home. Seventh years blub, parents get stroppy and the old Bill are summoned. Isn’t this all a bit dramatic? Tending to the fascist?
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