35 kids detention following school shoe rule created days before term

35 children were left in detention on their first day of school after failing to meet strict new uniform rules.

Bodmin College in Cornwall introduced a new "defined heel" rule days before the start of term. The rule rule seemed to have initially been announced via a Facebook, post which detailed which shoes were acceptable for students to wear.

One of the parents whose daughter was placed in a 'reset room', Gavin Mitchell, said he believes pupils were put in detention all day and that many other parents hadn't been contacted by the college, Cornwall Live reports.

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He said: "My daughter spent eight hours in reset copying out of a book because she was told she didn’t have the right shoes. She didn’t even get to find out her tutor group. To punish kids for the parents' downfall is just wrong.

“They were denied an education on their first day and they weren’t even given a warning." The college previously explained to parents that'shoes should be plain black, polishable or patent, and unbranded with no logo'. Shoes no longer allowed include hi-tops, canvas material, trainers and branded items with logos.

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Parents say there was no mention of a 'defined heel' until the Facebook post was sound. Mr Mitchell said that by the time the post was made, his wife had already bought new shoes for their daughter which they believed was appropriate.

“They brought out this policy idea about the uniform at the beginning of the summer but it didn’t specify that shoes needed to have a defined heel to be appropriate,” he said. “Then at the end of August, they came out