What is the difference between UK school and a concentration camp?

School bans boys from wearing shorts, telling them to wear skirts instead - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/chiltern-edge-school-uniform-policy-trousers-skirts-shorts-ban-a8382336.html

Parents complained wearing a blazer in the heat could make their children ill - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/school-uniform-headteacher-hatsdown-academy-matthew-tate-pupils-sent-home-a7232816.html

Nearly 80 pupils turned away from secondary in Kent over supposed dress code violations - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/school-uniform-row-hartswood-kent-dad-confronts-headmaster-at-gates-new-rules-a7231531.html

Schools refuse to let children take off their blazers during heatwave - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/uk-heatwave-school-stops-children-taking-off-blazers-uniform-policy-temperature-a7801531.html

School sends pupils home for wearing wrong shade of grey trousers -
[quote]Headteacher Nicky Cooper defended the decision, saying: “We are very, very particular about the uniform because we need consistency right across the board.[/quote] Are the teachers there really that incompetent?
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/kepier-school-houghton-le-spring-sunderland-a7935596.html

Mother whose child cried daily over school skirt to take legal action against 'discriminatory’ uniform policy - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/roberta-borsotti-skirt-school-uniform-policy-trousers-london-legal-action-department-for-education-a8435271.html

When my own children were at school I challenged the headmaster over clearly unlawful school policies. He told me quite clearly that he didn't care what the law said, he made the rules in [b]his[/b] school. It took legal action to get him to back down and comply with the law.

Caroline259 · 56-60, F

I don't know much about concentration camps but I am familiar with the attitude of some UK schools.

I attended an incident at a school earlier this year where a girl had fallen and injured herself. She had a suspected fracture of her ankle and a head injury that required suturing. It was reported (by another student) that she appeared to have lost consciousness for a short period and that she had subsequently vomited. Teachers had even moved her from where she fell!

When we arrived a rather indignant teacher told us were we weren't needed and demanded to know who had called us. I said I didn't know, I had just been told to attend. In fact, we'd been called secretly by another student on her mobile 'phone. As that was totally against the school rules she had asked us not to identify her as she would be in serious trouble.

We transported the casualty to A&E and I personally called her parents to let them know as, given the attitude of the teachers, I didn't trust them to. Quite frankly, I was disgusted by the way the teachers handled the incident.