A school has been forced to 'ban' pupils from bringing 'inappropriate' designer handbags to lessons. Teachers at All Saints' Academy in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, claim the luxury items are not suitable for carrying A4 files, textbooks and PE kits2.
位于英国格洛斯特郡切尔滕纳姆市的万圣中学禁止学生携带“不适用”的名牌手提包上课。该校老师称,奢侈手包并不适合学生,学生书包是用来装A4大小的文件,课本和体育用品的。
Some of the 900 students who arrived for the new term on January 5 with new bags from designers including
Ted3 Baker4, which can cost up to £289, were told to bring a rucksack the next day.
But parents at the church school, which opened in 2011, said the clampdown was 'pathetic' and argued that many designer bags are
perfectly5 functional6.
One mother, Martine Allen, claimed her teenage daughter was given a warning over her new £39 pink Ted Baker shopping bag.
The 32-year-old said: 'I
fully7 understand and totally agree with the handbag situation going on.
'[But] my daughter's bag is 36cm in height and width and a 15cm depth. It can carry all her books, PE
kit1, lunch, in it at once.
'In my sense [it] is fully reasonable for her school equipment. She now has to take a
Jack8 Wills rucksack which doesn't fit half of what she needs in it and it is a named bag.'