UK: Teachers Tell Pupils Not to Offer Seats to Disabled Passengers for ‘Safety’ Reasons
27th June 2012
“I said, ‘may I sit down?’ And the children said, ‘no, we’re not allowed to stand up’. The teacher didn’t intervene.”
“The schools take these large groups of children out, and the children are instructed they must not give up their seats for anyone. When someone gets on, the teacher shouts, ‘you are not to stand up’,” she said.
Well, all is not lost.
She stressed that not all schools enforce this policy, citing an occasion when several pupils from a Catholic primary school jumped up to offer her a seat on a train.