12 year old girl in UK put in isolation and sent home by school for wearing Union Jack to Culture Day

[IcaroRibeiro]

SeaDaVie said:

curl-6 said:

I don't have a problem with anyone who practises Islam peacefully and ethically and doesn't do any of the above either, they should be free to be proud of their culture and heritage too.

But it's not hard to see where people's frustrations come from when they see a British kid being punished for being proudly British, the implication being that in Britain it's okay to be any culture except, you know, British, that the majority are second class citizens in their own land.

The key point here is if she’d been something like, say, Indian and shed turned up dressed like a famous Indian pop band star and wearing an Indian flag as a cape, would she have been treated in the same way, or would that have been deemed an appropriate cultural outfit? I’m fairly sure she’d have been treated in the same way, but obviously that’s just speculation.

Cultural doesn't need to be necessarily traditional or folklorical. If a Korean kid wanted to be dressed as kpop star it would be completely appropriate too (as long the outfit was not sexual or skimpy)

The teacher made a mistake and the school recognized it, move on lol