Scores of children have walked out and parents are planning a protest after a Midlands school installed locked metal barriers outside toilet entrance that are locked during lesson time.
One mum says she saw more than 70 pupils leave The Discovery Academy, in Stoke-on-Trent, on Thursday, with now more than 140 parents signed up for the protest, reports StokeonTrentLive.
The 30-year-old said: "I was flicking through Snapchat when I saw one of the gates. I asked my son, ‘Are there gates on the toilets?' He said ‘yes’. I phoned the office and asked them about it. I said ‘send my son home now'. They asked me why and I told them ‘because I said so, that’s why'. My son asked to go to the toilet and he was told 'no'. He wasn't allowed and he has a medical pass.
