Southend parents protest against silent transition rules

A father said he had requested to send his son to a new school after the director imposed one -hour arrests for students who spoke in runners between lessons.

Southchurch High School in Southend-on-Sea brought the so-called silent transitions since Wednesday.

Lee said his son was already fighting with depression and anxiety. An online petition that protests against the changes has received more than 500 signatures.

The main teacher Tracy Airoll Sid, the silent transition policy had been “judged and proven” in other schools within her academy’s confidence.

In an email of the school, the parents would also be told the arrests on the same day of the same day for minor crimes that include forgetting the stationery, using incorrect uniform and not completing the task.

Lee said the rules could “seriously damage” his son’s education, which he is studying for his GCSE.

“For someone like [my son] Who has to verbalisme in the short term when he feels something, not Bee capable of talking to someone between classes in the corridor will be very bad for him, “Essex told BBC.

Another father Stuart said he responded to school “was using a sled hammer to break a utility” when comments were requested.

He said he told his son not to attend any arrest on the same day.

“They are implementing the same level of punishment for any transgression, no matter how stupid tiny,” he said.

Mother Abbey Riley, 35, said the students obtained arrests for “small silly things” and added: “You lose a pen, you have detention; you speak, you have detention.”

A petition began asking the policies to be reassess, which exceeded 500 signatures in 24 hours.

Southend -on -be the member of the work cabinet of the City Council for culture, tourism and business – Matt Dent – added his comment in more than 600 another 600 about the petition, expressing concern.

According to a survey or 6,283 teachers made by Tacher Tapp Last Mond, 1% of them in eastern England said the school itself had applied silent corridor rules.

The figure was 7% for London.

Gráinne Findo used to teach Essex and is head of community at the teacher TapP.

He pointed out that secondary schools had to face the challenge of managing students in large buildings, while trying to enforce unidirectional systems and staggered times for different groups of years.

“You want to do that as sure as possible and that is why things like silent runners come,” he explained.

Mrs. Airoll Sid Silent transitions had worked well within some of the other 18 schools within Learning Partnership Trust, which predominantly operated in the capital.

“We have an extremely satisfied leg with how good our students have adapted to new expectations,” he said.

“The comments of the teaching staff this week have been positive to the curve; students calmly reach the lesson and, more importantly, ready to start their learning immediately.”