WATCH: On Diversity Day, straight-A student is SENT HOME for wearing patriotic dress! * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh

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Across America, there have been schools that banish the Pledge of Allegiance, bar common-sense statements like “There are two genders,” and fly “diversity” flags instead of Old Glory in classrooms.

It seems that same infection has crossed the Atlantic, as a student wearing a patriotic Union Jack design on her dress for Diversity Day in the United Kingdom  was stunningly sent home!

The result of the political agenda included a public condemnation from the prime minister for Bilton School, which punished straight-A student Courtney Wright, 12.

The Daily Mail said she wore a Union Jack dress on diversity day, a “Spice Girls-esque garment, and wrote a speech about history and traditions.

She was told her costume was unacceptable by school officials and hauled into a reception room where she had to sit under her father collected her.

Meanwhile, students wearing burkas, niqabs and traditional Nigerian clothing were reportedly allowed to attend lessons as normal, but children with St George’s and Welsh flags were turned away at the school gates.

A spokesman for the prime minister said, “The PM has always been clear that being British is something to be celebrated. You can see that from everything this government has done. We are a tolerant, diverse, open country, proud of being British.”

Stuart Field is Courtney’s father and in inimical British style described being “gobsmacked” to find out what the school did.

“She should not be made to feel embarrassed about being British. And she shouldn’t be punished for celebrating British culture and history; nobody else I’ve spoken to can quite get their heads around it,” he told the Daily Mail.

The school had claimed the Culture Celebration Day was to “promote inclusion, understanding, and appreciation of different backgrounds, traditions and heritages.”

Courtney explained the British heritage to include kings and queens and castles and Shakespeare, humor, fairness and politeness, but “sometimes at school, we only hear about other cultures.”

Her father noted, “They didn’t even read or listen to her speech which actually celebrates inclusivity and other cultures. It was just like British culture could not be celebrated. She was punished for being proud of being British.”

School officials, later, admitted they goofed, with a statement, “An incident occurred during our Culture Celebration Day that caused considerable upset to one of our pupils, her family, and members of the wider community. We deeply regret the distress this has caused and offer our sincere and unreserved apologies.”

Bob Unruh

Bob Unruh joined WND in 2006 after nearly three decades with the Associated Press, as well as several Upper Midwest newspapers, where he covered everything from legislative battles and sports to tornadoes and homicidal survivalists. He is currently a news editor for the WND News Center, and also a photographer whose scenic work has been used commercially. Read more of Bob Unruh's articles here.