Teens Suspended From School 'For Kissing In Library' - Leaving Other Pupils 'Disturbed'

A teenage boy and girl have been suspended from school for kissing - shortly after two single sex secondaries merged.

The 13-year-olds were barred from classes at Pensby High School, on the Wirral.

It recently formed from two separate all-boys and all-girls establishments.

The mums claim the pupils “pecked on the lips” after a teacher left the classroom - an act which resulted in the pair being withdrawn from a day’s classes as punishment.

The school declined to discuss the details of the incident but said the pair had “disturbed” other pupils’ learning.

But the school’s reaction has angered the pupils’ parents, reports the Liverpool Echo.

The girl’s mum, from Oxton, said: “This is the same kind of punishment they’d get if they’d been violent to another student. Are they for real?

“They’re 13-year-old teenagers. You’d expect children of that age to be experimenting, so it came as a huge shock to us.

“It’s a whole day in year nine - the year before she takes her options for GCSE.”

The boy’s mum, from Rockferry, said: “My partner rang me in work to tell me that my son had been excluded. I was really shocked.

“So when he told me he’d been excluded for kissing a girl in the library I just laughed my head off. It’s ridiculous.

“My son just thinks it’s funny.

"All his mates are going round now saying I’m going to kiss a girl so I can get a day off school. That’s the problem.

"There’s nowhere in the rules that says if you kiss a girl you’re going to be excluded.

“At the end of the day you’ve just put an all-boys school with a girls school - it’s bound to happen. They only merged in September.”

Kevin Flanagan, headteacher at Pensby High School, said: “Unfortunately two students were excluded as a result of choices they made around their behaviour.

“Students are safe and learning well at Pensby, we always reflect on how we can improve and seek to work with parents wherever possible.

"We cannot allow students’ learning to be disturbed by a small minority of students.

“Our local community wants a school where behaviour supports learning and promotes the values and culture that will allow all our students to be successful, both in school and when they move on to work or further study.

“Less than a year ago the boys’ school was in a category of concern with Ofsted and behaviour was recognised as a serious concern, this is no longer the case.

“It is support from the vast majority of parents and students that has led to dramatic improvements in behaviour in the last 12 months.”