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No uniform, no school

6/20/2017

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This morning there was a meme going round about how children who had survived the Grenfell fire disaster had been turned away from school by the headteacher.  This was allegedly reported by the Daily Mail.   It turns out, as far as I can tell, to be fake news and I can't find any trace of the story on the DM or other websites.

So what is that all about?  In fact, there are some true stories of a pupil turning up the morning after the fire to sit a GCSE Chemistry exam.   (It was a young women named Ines Alves, reported here: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/jun/15/grenfell-tower-fire-teenage-survivor-exam
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It's interesting that 'being turned away from school for not having uniform despite tragedy'  is the kind of story that people would make up - and perhaps even more interesting that it is, in this current neoconservative climate, believable.  But of course the (probably fictional) headteacher and local authority were vilified on social media- which may be a measure of the current anti-establishment feeling which has been  engendered by the Corbyn election campaign and post - election events (the Prime Minister's supposed 'unfeelingness' in not meeting fire victims, Andrea Leadsom's support of her, and so on).  I'm not too sure what to make of all this, but certainly the 'Fake News' issue, which has been made so clear by Trump and his comments on the inauguration day crowd photographs, is one that needs to be held firmly in mind.    
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