Brisbane high school students given detention for wearing wrong shoes

They're sensible leather shoes that don't come cheap but get caught wearing them at one Brisbane high Sshool and prepare to pay the price. 

More than a hundred students at the Gap State High School have been ordered out of class and put on detention for wearing the wrong school shoes. 

Parent Karen Bishop’s daughter was told her $100 shoes didn’t meet the height requirements and was handed a detention notice despite wearing the same style shoe since grade 7. 

“I just think it’s wrong, they’re pulling some good kids out of school and placing them on detention,” Ms Bishop told 9NEWS. 

“I agree with keeping the kids neat and tidy but a heel height and an arch support I don't see the sense in that”. 

Mrs Bishop said the school offered to buy her daughter a pair of shoes that met their requirements but she doesn’t believe that is the answer. 

“I’m very grateful because I can’t afford to buy another pair but I don’t see they’re going to be able to do that for all the kids.” 

The uniform crackdown has divided parents at the popular school in Brisbane’s south west. 

Dr Karen Lovelace, who has students in Year 10 and Year 11, supports the policy. 

“The communications have been made clear in a range of formats,” she said. 

“This school cares about their students and therefore the shoes are appropriate safe and healthy”. 

Queensland Minister for Education Grace Grace said it is up to the school community to determine the uniform policy. 

The school principal refused a request for an interview today, but the Department of Education said there have been no changes to the uniform policy since 2004. 

It also maintains the strict shoe policy was made clear to students both at school assembly and in newsletters last year.