School pupils will be expelled for having boyfriends and girlfriends

lifeandtimes

https://m.independent.ie/world-news/europe/britain/school-principal-says-he-will-expel-pupils-who-have-a-boyfriend-or-girlfriend-36524567.html

First off- hahahahahaha

Secondly- what if they married?

Mr. Incognito

Bitter because the school girls wouldnt go out with him.

lawred2

lifeandtimes wrote: »

https://m.independent.ie/world-news/europe/britain/school-principal-says-he-will-expel-pupils-who-have-a-boyfriend-or-girlfriend-36524567.html

First off- hahahahahaha

Secondly- what if they married?

sad arse..

He also seems to not understand kids - tell them not to do something and they'll do their best to do the exact opposite

what a pillock

SEPT 23 1989

as a father of a teenage girl this is a welcome development

Water John

Good grief, a pillock. Reminds me of the school head nun who used to go down the street hunting couples, out of doorways. Where does she think they went, the stupid cow.

PopePalpatine

I honestly thought this was that religious nutjob who denied a secondary school place to a teenage mother in Kerry.

Wanderer78

we should also introduce religious controls into our educational system, all pupils will be deemed sinners and will be terrified to step out of line!

Water John

And the poor eegit hasn't started to get his head around, same sex relationships, transgender toilets etc.
Real fun to be married to. I'd say.

wexie

Great idea....lets make sure that kids whose hormones are just kicking in have no outlet for these hormones whatsoever and no support with all the things they are now dealing with.

This is a great way to make sure that students just get better at hiding things and won't come looking for help if they need any

Water John

How do tools, like this, end up with the gig? Usually chosen by a few gombeens on the BOM.

ancapailldorcha

Water John wrote: »

How do tools, like this, end up with the gig? Usually chosen by a few gombeens on the BOM.

It's a posh, private school in North Wales. It wouldn't surprise me if there weren't people pushing this behind the scenes. It's in the perfect place for these sorts of opinions.

lifeandtimes

Gotta love random ad placement

sjb25

lifeandtimes wrote: »

https://m.independent.ie/world-news/europe/britain/school-principal-says-he-will-expel-pupils-who-have-a-boyfriend-or-girlfriend-36524567.html

First off- hahahahahaha

Secondly- what if they married?

Feck I’d of been expelled anyway I’d several girlfriends in secondary school ah the bike shead

lifeandtimes

sjb25 wrote: »

Feck I’d of been expelled anyway I’d several girlfriends in secondary school ah the bike shead

Pam and her 5 sisters dont count

sjb25

lifeandtimes wrote: »

Pam and her 5 sisters dont count

Lol

MilesMorales1

'Wales' well there's your problem.

Colonel Claptrap

When I was in school girls who ended up pregnant were immediately told to stay at home and had their class work sent home to them for the duration of the pregnancy.

This was to hide them away from the other pure students, in case they got any wild ideas.

Mad when you think about it now.

Hector Bellend

What a plank.

I cant have been the only teenage boy who constantly had fanny on the brain when he was 16 and 17, so to speak.

Personally, I'd be more worried if teenagers weren't trying to rip each others knickers off.

Hector Bellend

MilesMorales1 wrote: »

'Wales' well there's your problem.

Yeah. He really needs to take up sheep farming

It's very common for schools in China to do this with the expectation that students without bf/gf will study better.

Absolutely nuts for it to happen in Europe though.

Ten of Swords

I strongly disapprove of any boyfriend/girlfriend relationships - and it will always affect any university reference I write

Oh jayzus, someone better explain to him that boy/boy and girl/girl relationships are also not beyond the realms of possibility.

Might want to have the defib on standby though.




What a complete idiot

Oldtree

He's about 40 years too late with the idea. What a morally upright person he is.

Must be some sort of religious fanatic

valoren

Considering they charge 40k a year for students it would probably be more in with their bottom line if they charged an extra 10k per year for students who want to have boyfriends/girlfriends.

Sofiztikated

What if you're not boyfriend/girlfriend, but just casually riding?

I'm guessing if parents are spending £34,500 a year on fees for a secondary school, they'll probably have the funds to sue the **** out of the school.

Skatedude

How can it be in any way legal to expel students because they went to the park, or had a takeaway, never even mind dating.

There is no way they can legally enforce policies like this.

One eyed Jack

Skatedude wrote: »

How can it be in any way legal to expel students because they went to the park, or had a takeaway, never even mind dating.

There is no way they can legally enforce policies like this.

There isn't any legal impediment to stop the school from implementing any of the above policies. As was mentioned already, this is a private school where the parents are paying €40k a year for their children's education and policies like these are more often pushed by the parents themselves.

AllForIt

He seems to be saying that he's against pupils having relationships with other pupils in the same school. I wonder what action he would take if any if one of his pupils were in a relationship with someone outside of the school. Surely he has no say in what his pupils do outside of school hours.

freshpopcorn

They are lots of school rules you can get expelled for breaking. You only get expelled if you get caught!

Greyfox

Stupid rule and a gobsh**e of a principal, his ban just makes dating someone 20 times more exciting n will definitely lead to distraction from schoolwork

eviltwin

Good luck trying to enforce that. Dating relationships are normally for teenagers and can be good for them. Trying to suppress the natural instincts of teens will never work.

LionelNashe

What struck me was the bit about him saying that it will impact the written reference he gives students. 3rd level places being offered on the basis of references is nuts.

Klinkhammer

I started going out with my now wife while we were in 4th year. This rule could have saved me a lot of strife and hardship.

Mrs OBumble

His school has far more demand than it has places for kids.

This will simply ensure that he gets the kids who want to spent their time studying, not f***ing. The smart ones can go to his school and get the best schools results they can. The rest can go to other schools and spread diseases amongst themselves.

Sounds like a win for everyone.

Billy86

This should be grounds for giving him the boot to be honest, he's openly bragging about being unfit for his job.

The_Valeyard

This ban would be unenforceable and a waste of time

Hector Bellend

Skatedude wrote: »

How can it be in any way legal to expel students because they went to the park, or had a takeaway, never even mind dating.

There is no way they can legally enforce policies like this.

Even from a practical standpoint, social interaction (at the very very least) should be encouraged between kids of this age. You don't necessarily want them having gang bangs or giving each other rusty trombones or kentucky tractor pullers (see urban dictionary) but you certainly want them engaging each other in a normal way.

Zaph

Presumably the whole obsession they have in the UK with school league tables plays at least a part in this. If the school's academic standards fall then that queue of people waiting to get their kids in will start to reduce and then all of a sudden the school isn't sitting on such a big pile of cash any more. So even if the school's scores start to fall a little over the next year or two, the principal has demonstrated his commitment to high academic standards and the lengths he's prepared to go to maintain them, which may mean that people aren't as quick to look at alternatives.

iguana

Did anyone read the whole article. The pupils are already forbidden from going to restaurants, having take-aways or going to the park!

Wanderer78

iguana wrote: »

Did anyone read the whole article. The pupils are already forbidden from going to restaurants, having take-aways or going to the park!

surely theres been a misprint, surely the article is suppose to say prison instead of school!

iguana

Wanderer78 wrote: »

surely theres been a misprint, surely the article is suppose to say prison instead of school!

It's a boarding school so not too far off.
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/private-school-ruthlessly-expel-students-12670511

lifeandtimes

Hector Bellend wrote: »

kentucky tractor pullers (see urban dictionary)

Had to look this one up

The act of a male and a male or male and a female preforming anal sex. During sex the receiver clenches their butt-cheeks tightly and runs with the penis still in the buttocks

"Last night my boyfriend scared me during sex by putting it in my butt so I ran away. Little did I know I accidentally gave him a Kentucky Tractor Puller."

Made me spit my beer out while actually watching hector bellerin play chelsea

Hector Bellend

lifeandtimes wrote: »

Had to look this one up

The act of a male and a male or male and a female preforming anal sex. During sex the receiver clenches their butt-cheeks tightly and runs with the penis still in the buttocks

"Last night my boyfriend scared me during sex by putting it in my butt so I ran away. Little did I know I accidentally gave him a Kentucky Tractor Puller."

Made me spit my beer out while actually watching hector bellerin play chelsea

Thats a quality shape

Your Face

Think of all the terrible poetry that will be written if this measure is brought in.

suicide_circus

Colonel Claptrap wrote: »

When I was in school girls who ended up pregnant were immediately told to stay at home and had their class work sent home to them for the duration of the pregnancy.

This was to hide them away from the other pure students, in case they got any wild ideas.

Mad when you think about it now.

joe40

Private school, he can do what he wants. He is a plonker and if parents still decide to use the school they are no better.

Badly Drunk Boy

Ten of Swords wrote: »

Oh jayzus, someone better explain to him that boy/boy and girl/girl relationships are also not beyond the realms of possibility.

Might want to have the defib on standby though.




What a complete idiot

No, he doesn't care if the gays don't do well academically, so long as the normals do. ;)

PandaPoo

Colonel Claptrap wrote: »

When I was in school girls who ended up pregnant were immediately told to stay at home and had their class work sent home to them for the duration of the pregnancy.

This was to hide them away from the other pure students, in case they got any wild ideas.

Mad when you think about it now.

That's what happened to me...and that was 2010!!

Cookie_Monster

when did having written reference for uni become a thing?

Peregrinus

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

when did having written reference for uni become a thing?

It's a thing in the UK, for the tonier universities. Always has been.

Peregrinus

Zaph wrote: »

Presumably the whole obsession they have in the UK with school league tables plays at least a part in this. If the school's academic standards fall then that queue of people waiting to get their kids in will start to reduce and then all of a sudden the school isn't sitting on such a big pile of cash any more. So even if the school's scores start to fall a little over the next year or two, the principal has demonstrated his commitment to high academic standards and the lengths he's prepared to go to maintain them, which may mean that people aren't as quick to look at alternatives.

This is exactly it - in the newspaper report he's quite open about his motivations. The school charges a lot of money on the basis that it delivers league-topping exam results; he reckons students in relationships are distracted and underacheive academically as a result. Obviously, if that's true (which I'm not so sure it is, but let that go) students in relationships will bring the school's average results down, and we can't have that, can we? Because then parents might not be willing to pay quite so much.

Chrongen

This whole sorry fcuking episode is the school's fault and the blame lies directly with the Administration/Admissions Office.
They admitted 45 more students than they can handle/house so now instead of becktracking and finding the cause of the error and rectifying it. e.g. simply identifying the 45 surplus students who were erroneously admitted, they are shifting to another tactic of introducing draconian measures in a bid to cull the numbers and extricate themselves from their own fcuk-up.

You know the staff/principal don't have the guts to phone up some billionaire oil Sheikh or American captain of industry or British Royal cousin and "regretfully inform" them that Amir or Sergei or Little Lord Fauntleroy who was successfully admitted was done so erroneously and must now fcuk off to another school.

Bad form that, say what! Plus these parents donate handsomely to the school fund. No we must find other methods of trimming the numbers.