Why was a schoolgirl punished over a Union Jack dress?
There is nothing hateful or racist about liking Shakespeare or the Spice Girls.
Courtney Wright was told that her dress – featuring a sequinned Union Jack – was ‘unacceptable’. She was placed in ‘isolation’ and given a choice: she could wait for her parents to collect her and take her home, or she could put on a school uniform and return to school. She was effectively treated as if she’d arrived in an SS uniform.
Courtney, like all Bilton School students, had been encouraged to wear ‘traditional’ outfits for Culture Day, and to ‘proudly represent their heritage’, including their ‘nationality or family heritage’. Courtney’s school also stopped her from giving a speech about what being British meant to her.