Mom could lose job after refusing to pay school fine over daughter’s ear piecing — even though she needed to wear studs to avoid infection

A mom is facing tribunal action and could suffer her occupation for refusing to salary a schoolhouse good aft her girl was banned from lessons for having her ears pierced.

Helen Gent’s girl Lucille, 14, was wearing “tiny” stud earrings erstwhile she returned to Magnus Church of England Academy successful England aft nan schoolhouse holidays, SWNS reports.

But nan Year 10 student was told they went against azygous argumentation owed to “health and information issues.” She was put into isolation.

Gent said nan schoolhouse still refused to let her backmost successful people moreover aft explaining they would request to enactment successful for six to 8 weeks to heal and debar nan consequence of infection.

The 45-year-old took her girl retired of lessons for 5 days to homeschool her but nan teen returned nan pursuing week wearing integrative studs.

Gent claims cipher performed a azygous cheque connected nan pupil and location were nary further problems until nan caller schoolhouse twelvemonth started.

She past received a missive from nan schoolhouse saying arsenic Lucille was absent for 5 days, they could return tribunal action, which would jeopardize nan mother’s employment.

The academy followed up by sending a missive fining Gent £60 ($77.79) if paid wrong 28 days aliases £120 ($155.58) if not paid wrong that play for “unauthorized absences.”

Gent said: “I said I’m not going to salary because I didn’t return her retired of lessons, that was nan school’s prime and I person now received a tribunal summons for criminal action.

“I took her to schoolhouse to registry for classes each azygous time of those 5 days, and they refused to fto her into class.”

She said it wasn’t arsenic though she’d taken Lucille connected holiday. She had taken her into nan schoolhouse and nan teen was turned away.

Gent branded it a “massive over-reaction,” claiming she could extremity up pinch a criminal record.

“My girl loves school, is simply a straight-A student, and has 100 percent attendance isolated from these days. I conscionable can’t get my caput astir it,” she said.

“To get a missive from nan CPS fundamentally asking if I plead blameworthy aliases not blameworthy for sending my girl to schoolhouse pinch earrings is conscionable bizarre.”

The taxi driver has had to prosecute a solicitor arsenic nan lawsuit is presently successful nan hands of Nottinghamshire County Council Prosecution Service and she will beryllium taken to court.

She said if she wins thing will hap but if she loses, she will bull a criminal record.

“I americium conscionable outraged that nan consequence of maine having a criminal grounds could forestall maine from getting employment successful nan early and it could moreover impact nan occupation I do currently,” she said.

“I’m a taxi driver, I activity pinch susceptible children and adults. I person sewage a clear DBS cheque because of moving pinch children and adults.

“But it’s required arsenic portion of my taxi license, if I past person a criminal record, I would person to inquire support from Newark and Sherwood District Council to group that speech truthful that I tin proceed my activity arsenic a taxi driver.

“If they determine not to do that, I would beryllium unemployed — this is perfectly ridiculous.”

Gent says she is waiting to perceive backmost from her solicitor, and nan day for her tribunal case.

The fuming mom antecedently blasted nan “Victorian-style authoritarian policy” arsenic astir schools and workplaces let for elemental stud earrings to beryllium worn.

She criticized nan azygous argumentation and branded nan state-run schoolhouse “sexist, archaic, and irrelevant.”

The mother is furious her daughter’s acquisition has suffered a brace of stud earrings, calling forbidding her from accessing acquisition “indirect sexism.”

Her girl was offered to beryllium taught successful isolation successful an agency but nan mother considered it a safeguarding issue.

“A azygous brace of mini stud earrings should not beryllium a problem. It is portion of British civilization and isn’t applicable to a child’s learning ability,” nan mom said.

“It’s fundamentally saying that piercing her ears is shameful and should beryllium punished by removing her valuable education.

“Other schools person nan communal consciousness to recognize having receptor piercings doesn’t impact a child’s expertise to learn.

“Even nan NHS has revised its argumentation to let stud earrings because they admit it doesn’t forestall their unit from doing their activity and is not a wellness and information obstacle.

“A Victorian-style dictatorial, authoritarian policy, utilizing strict subject discipline crossed a modular authorities school, that reinforces ‘do what I opportunity and not what I do’, is not nan champion measurement to get nan astir retired of children.”

Magnus Academy’s policy connected jewelry states that students whitethorn deterioration a watch.

However, wellness and information issues, positive concerns relating to nan nonaccomplishment of valuable items, and jewelry of immoderate benignant are banned.

A Magnus Academy spokesperson said: “Our azygous standards are clear and disposable connected our website.

“These person not changed successful complete six years, and reminders are sent location often passim nan year.

“On uncommon occasions, and wherever individuals do get astatine schoolhouse having not followed our azygous policy, we ever springiness them an opportunity to correct this.

“If they do not, aliases cannot correct their uniform, we supply work, on pinch afloat coach support, for them to complete elsewhere wrong nan school.

“We do not exclude for azygous breaches, and activity pinch families to resoluteness them quickly.”