Joe Harker
Parents have blasted a school as 'pathetic' after over 50 pupils were sent home for signing shirts on their last day before they left for study leave.
It's quite the tradition for secondary school leavers in the UK to crack out the felt tip pens and sign each other's shirts on the final day of term before everyone breaks up and potentially never sees each other again.
Not you and your friends of course, dear reader! You'll never find yourselves slowly drifting apart as the years go by until you realise it's been ages since you last spoke.
Anyhow, over 50 year 11 pupils at Wymondham High Academy, Norfolk, were sent home on their last day before study leave after writing all over each other's school shirts.
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While it's not technically the end of their time at school they're now off studying for their all important exams (at least until the next chunk of all important exams in college or sixth form) and realistically the end of their school year.
What awaits them now are days of studying and occasionally popping back into school whenever an exam or useful revision session is on, so you can likely understand why pupils were in the mood to scribble on each other's shirts.
It could be the last time the whole year is together at school as attendance tends to get a bit piecemeal once study leave and exams are on so it sounds like the perfect moment for heartfelt goodbyes and final insults.
According to the Daily Mirror, a pupil said they thought they'd be allowed to sign each other's shirts because it was their last day all together in year 11 before study leave so they got cracking with the pens as soon as the day started.
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However, they said that during the day the fire alarm went off and when they headed out into the school field 'teachers pulled people out of the lines who had visible writing on their shirts'.
They were then told that their parents had been called and they would be going home as 'rules were rules' and writing on the shirts were 'disturbing lessons'.
The parents weren't happy either, slamming the school as 'pathetic' and saying the place was 'run like a boot camp' and it was an 'absolute joke' that their kids were sent home early.
The school's headteacher Chris Smith had sent a letter out in the aftermath of over 50 pupils being sent home to say that a 'small number of year 11 students' had been 'engaging in shirt signing and disruptive behaviour'.
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There is meant to be an official celebration day for school leavers planned for June where pupils would presumably have the chance to write on each other's shirts, but some schools allow students to ditch the uniform once they go on study leave.
LADbible has contacted Wymondham High Academy for comment.