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a) The parents must have known the rules beforehand and could have clarified the issue with the bangle [which happens to be no jewellery, just jewellery-shaped and worn 
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b) If the rule states no jewellery, than that is the rule. I say tomato you say tomatoe [or whatever], a bangle is a bangle by any name.
c) I mean I could come to school with a gun and proclaim that it might look like one and work like one but that I belong to a church where this is our link to god!
The school is a place of learning. It should be even more restrained as nothing should distract from learning.
I remember my school, no dress-code whatsoever, not hair not tattoos or piercing, everything was allowed.
I had my most exciting times in 1984 with my gothic mates, going smoking in our "smoking room", shocking the little 'uns, checking out the boys and generally doing teenage things. I don't remember anything about learning or doing homework, school was a place to "hang out" and meet mates.
I am easily distracted, very easily.
So I studied many years later than I should have and found out about myself that in order to learn anything, I have to listen and not be distracted.
I had to sit away from friends in order to achieve this.
Now, do I really believe that a simple bangle could jeopardise this tranquility necessary to listen?
Apart from it probably making annoying "cling -clong" noises on the table when writing, no. Not by itself.
However letting her off will automatically open the floodgates. I mean why can she and the others can't?
What's easier, forbidding all jwellery apart from stud-earrings or making a tedious list of exceptions?
Its simple practicality.
]b) If the rule states no jewellery, than that is the rule. I say tomato you say tomatoe [or whatever], a bangle is a bangle by any name.
c) I mean I could come to school with a gun and proclaim that it might look like one and work like one but that I belong to a church where this is our link to god!
The school is a place of learning. It should be even more restrained as nothing should distract from learning.
I remember my school, no dress-code whatsoever, not hair not tattoos or piercing, everything was allowed.
I had my most exciting times in 1984 with my gothic mates, going smoking in our "smoking room", shocking the little 'uns, checking out the boys and generally doing teenage things. I don't remember anything about learning or doing homework, school was a place to "hang out" and meet mates.
I am easily distracted, very easily.
So I studied many years later than I should have and found out about myself that in order to learn anything, I have to listen and not be distracted.
I had to sit away from friends in order to achieve this.
Now, do I really believe that a simple bangle could jeopardise this tranquility necessary to listen?
Apart from it probably making annoying "cling -clong" noises on the table when writing, no. Not by itself.
However letting her off will automatically open the floodgates. I mean why can she and the others can't?
What's easier, forbidding all jwellery apart from stud-earrings or making a tedious list of exceptions?
Its simple practicality.
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