Head: I sent home 50 pupils for wrong uniform

Name: Head: I sent home 50 pupils for wrong uniform
Uploaded: 2016-09-07T08:36:13.000Z
Duration: 2 min 32 s
Description: Headteacher Matthew Tate explains why he sent home 50 pupils on the first day of school

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Parents have protested outside a school in Kent after the headteacher sent home 50 pupils because they were not wearing the correct uniform.

Matthew Tate, headteacher of Hartsdown Academy in Margate, tells the Today programme why he took the action.

7 September 2016