Yes of course a school can, and should, ban a parent if they pose a potential safety or  security threat to staff or pupils in the school.    Take the situation of a parent entering the school blind drunk - not only is it not pleasant, not a good example to pupils but there is a real danger of the parent falling over and breaking something......a child´s back perhaps!

Whether wearing a veil poses a potential threat to safety or security is, of course, a different matter!!!

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20090415/twl-fir-tree-found-growing-inside-man-s-3fd0ae9.html

Poor chap with pains in his chest did not expect to have a spruce tree growing in his lungs............... gives a whole new meaning to being "spruced up"!! 

Glad they were able to remove the sapling from his lungs!!

A new member´s personal picture:

http://www.turkishclass.com/picture_20274

 hee hee maybe it´s the ingredients for the freak power

 I thought it looked like the preparations for an unpleasant procedure of some sort with only a length of rubber tubing missing  

 apparantly a very liberating procedure!!

When this woman walked onto the stage of Britains got talent, people in the crowd were sniggering and giggling and pulling faces, a snearing bunch of prejudice people thinking she will be crap...............

So one good reason why you should never judge people by their looks......... sorry for those who cannot see youtube....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lp0IWv8QZY 

Watching this woman sing brought a lump to my throat and tears to my eyes.............

What a voice! Gives me the chills! Wow!!!!

 ...and to mine.  As you said it just goes to prove how wrong it is prejudge people based on their looks.  This woman has an amazing voice - I hope she can somehow realise her dream.

 By what is in the papers today, she has not gone un-noticed around the world with something like 12 millions hits on youtube and the rich a famous commenting on her voice!

Shanno Khan, Schoolgirl Dies After Corporal Punishment in the Sun

Shanno Khan, a little 11-year old girl in India, is dead after a teacher subjected her to severe corporal punishment by forcing her to stand outside in the hot sun.  Corporal punishment is illegal in India and Shanno Khan´s teacher and the school principal are facing possible criminal charges over her death. Little Shanno Khan was severely punished, literally left in the sun to die, after she didn´t complete a homework assignment.  For hours the 11-year old stood in the blaring New Delhi sun; her nose started to bleed, she fainted, and eventually slipped into a coma in hospital where she died. Renuka Chowdhury, India´s Minister for Women and Child Development called the incident a "terrible tragedy."  Police are awaiting the results of Shanno Khan´s autopsy before deciding whether to lay criminal charges on the educators.

Eleven-year-old Shanno Khan´s teacher made her stand in the baking New Delhi sun, after which she got a bloody nose and fainted. Khan slipped into a coma after being taken to the hospital and died on Friday, AFP reported. The teacher and school principal have been suspended, and criminal charges are pending after the autopsy results are released, according to local media reports. While corporal punishment is illegal in India, it is not unusual for teachers to physically abuse students.

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Horrible! Why aren´t practices like this not pursuid more? That teacher..... in jail for a very, very long time!