Furious mother takes her daughter, 15, out of school weeks before her mock GCSEs after teachers put her in isolation for having a nose piercing against school rules

A mother has decided to take her 15-year-old daughter out of school rather than make her remove her nose piercing.

Louise McNamara, 52, has removed her daughter, Shannon, from the Oxford Academy in the city, after the Year 11 pupil was told to take out her tiny nose stud as it was against school rules.

The school said Shannon would be educated in isolation if she refused to take out the stud.

But Ms McNamara saw that as an unfair punishment and so removed her from the school just weeks before her GCSE mock exams.

The Oxford Academy has warned Ms Mcnamara that she faces prosecution if she keeps her daughter at home.

Shannon, who lives with her mother in Greater Leys, Oxford, got the piercing on Saturday as an early present for her 16th birthday in December.

Although she knew there were rules against facial piercings, she claimed other girls in Year 11 got away with wearing small studs.

But when she arrived at Oxford Academy on Monday, the head of Year 11 spotted the stud and took her out of her class.

The teacher contacted Ms McNamara and said Shannon would be educated in isolation until she agreed to take the stud out. 

However she refused to let Shannon study in isolation for the eight weeks she’s been told to keep the stud in and so removed her from the school.

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