{"id":559,"date":"2011-05-10T16:12:40","date_gmt":"2011-05-10T15:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=559"},"modified":"2011-05-10T16:12:40","modified_gmt":"2011-05-10T15:12:40","slug":"becoming-more-action-competent-news-from-the-front-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2011\/05\/10\/becoming-more-action-competent-news-from-the-front-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Becoming more Action Competent: news from the front line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A heart-warming story in today's <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/education\/educationnews\/8504552\/Boy-wears-skirt-to-school-in-protest-against-discrimination.html\">Telegraph<\/a> about a one-boy stand against the forces of complacency in his school. \u00a0Chris Whitehead, a year 8 student, took exception to a school policy which prevented boys from wearing shorts in hot weather. \u00a0But he had a sharp eye for loopholes, and he wore a skirt instead as this wasn't specifically un-allowed by the school policy. \u00a0The school's head is reported as saying:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>''Our uniform policy had a significant consultation and ours is typical of most schools in Cambridgeshire and the consensus was we were going to go for that. \u00a0...\u00a0Ultimately the boys can wear a skirt to school because it doesn't say they can't in the uniform policy and we would be discriminating against them if we did not allow it.\"<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dear me! \u00a0Sadly, he went further:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\"Chris is a very bright and articulate student and we have got a very strong student council. \u00a0He is one of only two year 8 pupils on it. \u00a0I know he wants to go into politics and has got strong principles - so maybe Parliament is not the best place for him.\"<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-top: 0px;padding-right: 0px;padding-bottom: 0.7em;padding-left: 0px;font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 1.4em;line-height: 1.48em;margin: 0px\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif;line-height: 19px;font-size: 13px\">Chris's mother, Liz, is 50 \u2013 a fact which seems so important to the Telegraph that I pass it on.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A heart-warming story in today's Telegraph about a one-boy stand against the forces of complacency in his school. \u00a0Chris Whitehead, a year 8 student, took exception to a school policy which prevented boys from wearing shorts in hot weather. \u00a0But...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}