Our kids’ school is like a PRISON with pupils ‘punched in canteen fistfights’ & toilets locked up behind bars

PARENTS have slammed a faculty for locking youngsters' bogs behind "jail" bars - after footage emerged of a fistfight within the college canteen.

Round 50 mother and father turned up at a protest outdoors Discovery Academy in Bentilee, Stoke-on-Trent this morning, following complaints about steel bars being put over the doorways to bogs.

Dad and mom in Stoke say placing pupils' bogs behind bars is inhumaneCredit score: BPM

From round 9am, mother and father and kids stood outdoors the gates with placards displaying slogans like "No Bars on Bogs", "Fundamental Human Rights" and "It is Not a Jail".

Dad Rob Cooper, 39, stated: "Bogs are a human proper. It’s a faculty for kids, not a jail.

"Persons are right here as a result of they’re indignant."

Mum Tracey Barnett, 43, stated: "On Friday my 12-year-old son requested the instructor twice to make use of the bathroom they usually refused to let him go."

Some protesters on the scene this morning additionally raised considerations over bullying on the academy, after footage emerged of a schoolgirl being punched within the head within the college canteen.

Simon French, CEO of Alpha Academies Belief, which runs the varsity, addressed mother and father on the protest.

He stated: "We’re going to have a mother and father' assembly on Thursday, after college, to undergo the suggestions and the findings.

"As a Belief we’re solely going to unravel this by working collectively.

"It’s received to be mutual respect from either side."

A spokesman for Alpha Academies Belief stated: "At AAT now we have excessive expectations of studying and clear processes in place to assist.

"We've excessive requirements of uniform prepared for the world forward and have processes in place for many who truant.

"We encourage college students to go to the bathroom at common set occasions throughout the day and assist these with medical wants by accessing bogs at any time.

"Parental engagement is extraordinarily essential to us and we worth alternatives to hearken to considerations and clarify the explanations for our selections."

This morning these attending the protest wrote their considerations right into a e book which might be handed in to the varsity.

Police have been additionally on the scene.

These bars have left the pupils' bogs trying extra like a jail than a facultyCredit score: BPM

Simon French, CEO of the belief which runs the academy, addressed mother and father on the protestCredit score: BPM

As many as 50 mother and father joined the protestCredit score: BPM

The protests come after footage emerged of a fistfight within the college canteenCredit score: BPM

Protestors stated that bogs are a primary human properCredit score: BPM

Police additionally attended the sceneCredit score: BPM

These native dads borrowed their youngsters' highlighters to make some snazzy placardsCredit score: BPM