{"id":1054530,"date":"2021-11-25T10:13:52","date_gmt":"2021-11-25T15:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1054530"},"modified":"2021-11-25T10:13:55","modified_gmt":"2021-11-25T15:13:55","slug":"uk-school-asks-pupils-to-wear-yellow-badge-to-show-they-are-mask-exempt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/uk-school-asks-pupils-to-wear-yellow-badge-to-show-they-are-mask-exempt\/","title":{"rendered":"UK School Asks Pupils to Wear \u2018Yellow Badge\u2019 to Show They Are Mask-Exempt"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fuk-school-asks-pupils-to-wear-yellow-badge-to-show-they-are-mask-exempt%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1054530&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Schoolchild-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">A parenting campaign group has criticised the \u201cdeeply inappropriate\u201d request from a school for pupils to wear a \u201cyellow badge\u201d to show they are exempt from wearing a mask, with many making a comparison to the yellow stars forced upon Jewish people in Nazi-occupied Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Allison Pearson from <em>The Telegraph<\/em> had <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AllisonPearson\/status\/1461049797956325384\">circulated<\/a> last week excerpts of an email from the headmaster of&nbsp;Farringtons School in Chiselhurst, Kent, advising parents that children who are exempt from wearing a mask in school should wear a \u201cyellow badge\u201d to identify themselves. The email prompted the journalist to ask \u201cdoes the school have teachers who know their history?\u201d as well as dozens of responses to the tweet with members of the public seeing the comparison to the forcing of Jewish people wearing stars in Nazi-occupied Europe so they could be identified and singled out for discrimination.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>In a follow-up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2021\/11\/23\/echo-nazi-stars-yellow-badges-pupils-exempt-wearing-face-masks\/\">investigation<\/a> by the newspaper on Tuesday, the contents of the email from the boarding school \u2014 which with fees up to \u00a334,050, one would assume likely employs some of the more capable teachers in the country \u2014 confirmed that the school was enforcing a mask policy and that those who are exempt from covering their faces \u201cshould wear a yellow badge to indicate this\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Farringtons School headmaster David Jackson wrote to parents:&nbsp;\u201cIn light of the increase in the number of cases, we have also decided to re-introduce the compulsory wearing of face masks in classrooms and other confined areas within the senior school, such as corridors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose pupils who were exempt from wearing a mask last academic year will once again be exempt and should wear a yellow badge to indicate this,\u201d Mr Jackson added.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The school responded to the outrage after the letter was leaked online, saying that they were \u201chorrified\u201d such a parallel with the Nazi yellow star was drawn, but that \u201cno offence was intended\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>A Farrington School spokesman told <em>The Telegraph<\/em>:&nbsp;\u201cThe rationale for introducing a badge for mask exempt pupils is so that they are not repeatedly challenged about not wearing a mask. On walking down a corridor, a teacher can immediately see that a mask is not required and therefore the wearing of a badge was intended to make it easier for those pupils.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe badge was chosen after looking at the government advice about exemption from face-covering badges. This has a yellow circle and so we went for a yellow badge rather than producing a specially designed one. No offence was intended and we are horrified that any such parallel should be drawn.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"6.9146341463415\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">French Police Arrest Briton for Wearing Wrong Type of Mask on Eurostar Train: Report <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FG82JFVV52\">https:\/\/t.co\/FG82JFVV52<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1446524037157593110?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 8, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Parenting campaigner Molly Kingsley from UsForThem told the newspaper that the yellow badge was \u201cdeeply inappropriate\u201d and it should \u201cnot need explaining\u201d to educators why yellow badges should not be used to single people out, saying: \u201cThis has historic connotations which are deeply uncomfortable for many people.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Ms Kingsley also revealed that \u201cunbelievably this specific example of asking them to wear a yellow badge is not in isolation\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Kent MP Craig Mackinlay called the story \u201ccompletely bizarre\u201d, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/talkRADIO\/status\/1463433178887200776?s=20\">telling<\/a> talkRADIO\u2019s Julia Hartley-Brewer on Wednesday that there are \u201cobvious similarities, the clean and the unclean. It is just mad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Media <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/02\/18\/supermarket-calls-cops-disabled-man-refused-wear-yellow-mask-exemption-sticker\/\">reported<\/a> earlier this year of supermarket security guards in England calling the police on a man, who said he was disabled and mask-exempt, who refused to wear a yellow sticker signalling he was not required to wear a mask.<\/p>\n<p>The incident happened in February when mask-wearing in supermarkets was still mandatory and security guards had taken to demanding shoppers mask-up, prove they were exempt, or even be banned from shopping. While exemption markers were not required by law, Morrisons\u2019 policy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/news\/14074483\/morrisons-face-mask-medical-exemption\/\">demanded<\/a>&nbsp;at the time the wearing of a sticker, \u201cso that colleagues and customers inside the store are aware that the customer is medically exempt.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"6.9316770186335\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Leftist Mayor Sadiq Khan: Not Wearing a Mask on London Transport Should Be a Crime <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FM3xSzuoN4\">https:\/\/t.co\/FM3xSzuoN4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1423361161299386369?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 5, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A parenting campaign group has criticised the \u201cdeeply inappropriate\u201d request from a school for pupils to wear a \u201cyellow badge\u201d to show they are exempt from wearing a mask, with &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1054530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1054530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1054530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1054530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1054530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}