School apology after threatening to send pupils home for dress code breach
A secondary school has apologised after it told parents their children would be sent home if they came to school wearing a type of cultural dress it described as "religious items". Mulberry Stepney Green college in Tower Hamlets is due to hold a Culture Day on June 21, where pupils are encouraged to wear cultural dress or clothes in the colours of the flag they feel best represents them or their identities.But in a letter to parents on Friday, June 7 the school said the wearing of an abaya or
