Parents have slammed a school where pupils are ordered to smile when a teacher asks them to, march silently in rows and line up for inspections of equipment up to five times a day as being like a "military camp". New rules at the secondary school in Bristol have infuriated parents, with many saying they are now looking at moving their children to other schools.
There has already been a protest at the gates of Blaise High School, which already has double the number of pupils suspensions than any other school in the city, Bristol Live reports. The school's strict new rules, which were put in the place at the beginning of the new term, include pupils being given detention or time in isolation for resting their chin on their hand during a lesson, or not properly marching in a straight line with classmates with what the school calls ‘pace and purpose’.
That rule requires students to walk in a straight line "quickly and with no gaps" before standing in a straight line. Students are also marched in and out of school and through the school in complete silence.
