Earlier this month 13-year-old Lewis Whitehead was sent home from schoolfor having hexagons shaved into his hair to make his head look like afootball for the World Cup. Do not be alarmed. He didn't succeed. Itstill looked like his head. Just a bit patchy.
Then last week the Daily Mirror reported that six primary schoolchildren were sent home for turning up for classes in England footballkits. The mother of two of them said: "They are denying my children aneducation for supporting their country".
A Cambridgeshire County Council spokesman said it was "inappropriate towear dangerous studded boots".
Another triumph for bureaucratic safety rules. Another blow forchildren's rights.
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