Home Blogs & Views Birmingham Mail Columnists Maureen Messent
Go to the bottom of the class
THE most boring characters in our islands are the malcontents who beat paths to the High Court in the course of their battles with schools which lay down dress and jewellery codes of wear.
The latest in this po-faced profession is Lydia Playfoot, 16, an evangelical Christian who wants to wear a chastity ring that signifies her promise to remain a virgin until marriage.
She says that Sikh girls at Millais School in Horsham, West Sussex, are allowed to wear bangles, so why can't she wear her ring?
Go to the bottom of the class, young Lydia.
The Sikh bangle, known as a kara, is a requisite of that faith. No branch of Christianity has yet come up with an instruction to wear one of these rings.
Why does this bothersome girl feel the need to proclaim her purity? There's something psychologically iffy here...
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