CYP Now - Quotes of the week (131)

"The head is jealous because he's bald" - A pupil at St Peter's Church of England Aided School in Exeter, Devon, on the head teacher's ban of spiky hairstyles. Pupils staged a protest on the school playing fields last week.

"These are disturbing figures, but they reflect the weakness of New Labour's anti-poverty strategy" - Clare Short, ex-Labour Cabinet minister, on anti-poverty figures that reveal her constituency tops the English league table for the most number of children living in poverty. Ladywood in Birmingham has 81 per cent of children living in or on the brink of poverty

"In large parts of the education system God has become an embarrassment" - Tim Hastie-Smith, chairman of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference, complains a moral vacuum has appeared thanks to celebrity culture and The X Factor.

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