Recently, Hanson Academy, in Bradford, made the headlines after running a school-gate spot-check on school uniform which resulted in large numbers of students being sent home to change various items of clothing. The media made much of the fact that 152 were sent home on the first day, a Tuesday (there were fewer mentions of the figures for the remaining three days of that week, which were, respectively, 63, 33 and seven).
Unsurprisingly, the under-the-line comment warriors fired up their devices and lined up facing each other. There’s no point in summarising the opposing views. Just fill them in yourself.
As we shall see later, though, the whole spat had an interesting and very positive outcome.
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