SIR: I must write and defend Thornleigh Salesian College. I have four children who went to this school, they are all now in good jobs.
I did not agree to all the discipline. My daughter coloured her hair a bit lighter on the last week that she was there, and she was told if she didn't put it right she would not be able to go in to school that week and she would miss the leaving party.
I was not happy. But I think if you want your children to go to the best school where they will not let standards slip then you should be 100 per cent behind that school as parents.
I worked in a secondary school for 15 years and I left because the discipline had gone, and the children had no respect left.
Mrs D M Locke
Roscow Avenue, Breightmet
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