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Story summary
- Aisling, a mother in England, challenged her son’s detention for wearing coloured socks at Sir John Leman High School.
- The school’s uniform policy requires white socks for indoor PE and navy socks for outdoor PE.
- The 11-year-old wore black socks twice and forgot his trainers once, receiving a lunchtime detention.
- After Aisling’s complaint, the school revoked the detention.
- Aisling said policing sock colour is a disproportionate punishment for ordinary mistakes.