12-Year-Old Girl Removed From Class Over British Flag Outfit On Culture Day
By Hank Berrien
“She should not be made to feel embarrassed about being British.”
A 12-year-old British girl was removed from her class and her father was called after she simply wore a British flag dress on her school’s culture day.
“’Straight A’ student Courtney Wright wore the Spice Girls-esque dress and wrote a piece about British history and traditions as part of the celebrations on Friday,” The Telegraph reported. Informed her dress was “unacceptable” at Bilton School in Rugby, Warks, Wright was told to wait in an office for her father, Stuart Field, he said.
“Courtney was so embarrassed and couldn’t understand what she’d done wrong,” Field stated. “She should not be made to feel embarrassed about being British. And she shouldn’t be punished for celebrating being British – nobody else I’ve spoken to can quite get their heads around it.”
“Somebody at the school has politicized a Union Jack dress even though that was clearly not Courtney’s intent,” he continued. “Courtney didn’t do anything to be political. It’s about being British, the Spice Girls and even the freedom at being able to wear a dress. This is just what being British means to her.”