A ten-year-old boy from Weston Super Mare has been put on a school “hate register” after he allegedly made a homophobic insult in the playground.
Peter Drury, a pupil of Ashcombe Primary School, is believed to have called one of his friends a “gay boy,” according to his mother.
The boy’s mum says she was called into her son’s school to be told by head teacher that another mother had heard him using homophobic language.
She claims she was told the incident would be registered and his file monitored while he was at the school.
“He doesn’t even understand about the birds and the bees, so how can he be homophobic?”
Schools are reportedly being given advice that offensive comments made by children as young as five should be recorded and kept on record until the pupil leaves secondary school.