Fuming mum slams school after daughter sent home for wearing Vivienne Westwood shoes
dailyrecord.co.ukA furious mum has slammed her daughter's school after she was sent home for wearing designer shoes. Angry parents have blasted the school for putting pupils in isolation for wearing footwear deemed as unsuitable on the first day of the school year.
Students wearing certain shoes lasted a matter of hours of the new school year before they were sent packing by staff at Grace College in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, on Tuesday.
As reported by Chronicle Live, among the kids asked to return home were a year 10 pupil wearing black Nike walking boots and year nine and year seven students who arrived in black Vivienne Westwood pumps.Melissa Pope said her 11-year old daughter was forced to spend the day in isolation until she could be picked up by her grandmother and she is now reluctant to go back.
Mum-of-two Melissa said: "My daughter has had her first day at secondary school. She's been sitting in a room not learning anything at all and not wanting to go back."They've said she can't wear them for health and safety because the shoe doesn't cover the top of the foot.
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