14-Year-Old School Girl Banned From Class, ‘Too Big’ For Uniform

A schoolgirl who is ‘too big’ for her school uniform according
to her school management has been forced to sit in isolation or
stay at home because her skirt doesn’t match uniform
requirements.

MailOnline relates Kada Jones, 14, school resumption story. She
returned to school after the summer holidays to begin her first
term in Year 10, but due to her size she has to wear a different
skirt to the one suggested by her school.

Instead of the grey pleated knee-length skirts the school
requires, Kada wore a grey size 24-26 skirt from Aldi, which
according to MailOnline report she wore last year without
complaint.

But this year, the 14-year-old found herself being removed from
classes at Portchester Community School in Fareham, Hants, and told
that if she didn’t wear the regulation skirt, she would be forced
to either study in isolation, or stay at home.

The school’s headteacher insists that the skirt does not match
school regulations.

Kada Jones. PHOTO Portsmouth News

In an act of defiance, Kada went into school on Wednesday and
even attended two of her morning lessons, before the school removed
her from the classroom.

Kada, who is studying geography, health and social care, history
and art alongside the core GCSE subjects, is heartbroken by how she
has been treated by the school.

She said: “I’ve been crying for the past five days – I don’t
understand, I’ve done nothing wrong.

“People get put in isolation because they have done something
wrong; they’ve been treating me like I’m not even a human
being.

“ll I want to do is go to school.”

Kada’s mother, 54-year-old Carleen Jones, says her daughter is
medically healthy, and is ‘fuming’ that the school has changed its
mind on her skirts.

She said: “Kada was in the headmaster’s maths class last year,
and he never raised an issue with her skirt.

“If she was dressed like a punk rocker or something I would
understand, but this skirt is similar to the school ones and is
absolutely fine.”

Richard Carlyle, headteacher at Portchester Community School,
says all schoolchildren must abide by the same rules.

“It’s about the skirt being the appropriate length and
appropriate material.

“Miss Jones” skirt wasn’t quite up to school regulations in
terms of length, but the school is working to find a uniform that
is compliant.

“Pupils have a duty to wear the uniform respectfully and with
dignity.”

Portchester Community School currently has 633 students and was
rated ‘Good’ by Ofsted in 2018.