Legal Advice & Education

Originally Posted by BluePete

In trying to answer your question MissA*, I managaed to find this.

S T A T U T O R Y I N S T R U M E N T S
2006 No. 1751
EDUCATION, ENGLAND
The Education (Pupil Registration) (England) Regulations 2006
Made - - - - 1st July 2006
Laid before Parliament 11th July 2006
Coming into force - - 1st September 2006
In exercise of the powers conferred by sections 434(1), (3) and (4), 551(1) and 569 of the

Education Act 1996(

a), the Secretary of State for Education and Skills makes the following

Regulations:

Citation, commencement and application

1.

—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Education (Pupil Registration) (England)

Regulations 2006 and come into force on 1st September 2006.

(2) These Regulations apply only in relation to schools in England.

Interpretation

2.

In these Regulations —

“the local education authority” means, in the case of a school maintained by a local education

authority that local education authority, and in every other case the local education authority

for the area in which the school is situated;
“maintained school” means a school maintained by a local education authority;
“relevant person” means —
(a) in relation to a pupil under the age of 18, a parent of the pupil;

(b) in relation to a pupil who has attained that age, the pupil.

which appears to say that a pupil under 18 has to attend and be registered.

Contents of Attendance Register

6.

—(1) The following particulars must be recorded in the attendance register at the
commencement of each morning session and once during each afternoon session —

which explains the sixth forms request she attend all day.

The full text is here and is not interesting reading.

Maybe have a read of it with your sis and parents before the meeting 'cos I imagine the head will be able to quote it!

Pete.

fine post and find ,Pete.It is always best to go to a meeting with a knowledge of the rules and regs that the school ,is obliged to work under.

Originally Posted by BluePete

In trying to answer your question MissA*, I managaed to find this.

S T A T U T O R Y I N S T R U M E N T S
2006 No. 1751
EDUCATION, ENGLAND
The Education (Pupil Registration) (England) Regulations 2006
Made - - - - 1st July 2006
Laid before Parliament 11th July 2006
Coming into force - - 1st September 2006
In exercise of the powers conferred by sections 434(1), (3) and (4), 551(1) and 569 of the

Education Act 1996(

a), the Secretary of State for Education and Skills makes the following

Regulations:

Citation, commencement and application

1.

—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Education (Pupil Registration) (England)

Regulations 2006 and come into force on 1st September 2006.

(2) These Regulations apply only in relation to schools in England.

Interpretation

2.

In these Regulations —

“the local education authority” means, in the case of a school maintained by a local education

authority that local education authority, and in every other case the local education authority

for the area in which the school is situated;
“maintained school” means a school maintained by a local education authority;
“relevant person” means —
(a) in relation to a pupil under the age of 18, a parent of the pupil;

(b) in relation to a pupil who has attained that age, the pupil.

which appears to say that a pupil under 18 has to attend and be registered.

Contents of Attendance Register

6.

—(1) The following particulars must be recorded in the attendance register at the
commencement of each morning session and once during each afternoon session —

which explains the sixth forms request she attend all day.

The full text is here and is not interesting reading.

Maybe have a read of it with your sis and parents before the meeting 'cos I imagine the head will be able to quote it!

Pete.

Thanks for this bluepete The thread seems to have derailed a bit from the original question..! (no problem with this though, its quite good to have a good ol' debate about things). I'll also tell my parents to find the schools own 'terms and conditions' as well.

Anyhoo - there are both sides to every story so that is why my parents are going to see the head of sixth form to get to the root of the issue. Because as some others have said, something does not sit right. i.e. why would a student who does the work get kicked out.

Hope the dismantling of your poor SV is going alright..!

Maria

[Bluepete]

Originally Posted by Miss Alpinestarhero

Hope the dismantling of your poor SV is going alright..!

Maria

Something you want to tell me? First I've heard about it!

Originally Posted by BluePete

Something you want to tell me? First I've heard about it!

doh..! got you mixed up with someone else. Sorry!

Maria

Originally Posted by Miss Alpinestarhero

doh..! got you mixed up with someone else. Sorry!

Maria

dooohhhh...just spent the last 10 mins searching Petes posts

[Bluepete]

Originally Posted by gid

dooohhhh...just spent the last 10 mins searching Petes posts

That's ten minutes you'll never get back isn't it!

Originally Posted by Ed

Northy, you're eloquent as usual. But making beds and lying in them comes to mind.

I can't think of anything else I can usefully add TBH.

I think cutting off your nose to spite your face would be a more appropriate metaphore!

Originally Posted by MiniMatt

One that I can think of off the top of my head would be fire safety - I'm guessing the school needs to keep track of who's in and out of the premises at any given time in case the physics lab goes thermo nuclear or something. Now sure, that can be negated by just agreeing that your sister signs in and out when she comes and goes, however when that's applied to a whole sixth form the school will likely need to pay some admin person an extra hour a day to keep track of it all - that's money that could be better spent on.... better facilities.

That ones already been covered - they get registered for every lesson anyway, so fire safety isn't a valid reason.

Originally Posted by Messie

My sig is an in joke, but you're not in so you won't get it

I get it

This thread is so funny, I have only just caught it, some of the replies, Gettin2Dizzys with the cat is funny (not thread related but was still funny pic), I'm with Ed (post 67) on Xans post, I spat Pepsi when I read that!

She may benefit from going to school all day when she has a lesson that day, distribute her free periods at school for studying. Then when she hasn't got a lesson, don't go in...Give herself proven study time in school as she's on the register for the day...Then on her free days, she is free to do as she likes? Be it Study or go out, sit and watch the box, whatever...A solution for everyone?

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

Interesting read, cheers all. A couple of you appear to be showing true colours in this one.

+1

Interesting read this...

1st off - FFS! 4 courses?!?! How hard can it be? Media studies...??? Where the hell is she going with that? More people should be doing proper subjects aiming to do proper jobs! Whatever happened to people doing Maths, Science, Physics, Languages???

Secondly, As rude as Neio was, between the lines I agree with him...I must be honest, the bloke does get a bit fired up but I understand why...way too many lefty, guardian-reading soap dodgers around these parts.

It did make me laugh though...all 15 pages of it! Glad I dont come here that often any more