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Coronation Street will see Gemma Winter up in arms against her children\u2019s school when one of her kid gets sent home in an upcoming storyline.<\/p>\n
Actress Dolly-Rose Campbell has weighed in on her character\u2019s ordeal, explaining how furious Gemma will be when her son Joseph (William Flanagan) gets punished for having used BSL with his friends at playtime. According to his teacher, kids aren\u2019t allowed to use other languages, as she insists that Joseph may have signed something rude without her knowing.<\/p>\n
Gemma, however, thinks her decision is \u201cignorant and audist\u201d and undermines her efforts for everyone in her household to learn sign language to make Aled (Joseph Woods) feel included.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe has encouraged and been the driving force of the family to learn sign language, to keep practising to keep using it with all the children to support Aled, and that includes Joseph,\u201d Campbell explained.<\/p>\n
\u201cGemma feels that the teacher is being unfair sending Joseph home and she feels that he wouldn\u2019t have been sent home if he was speaking maybe Spanish or something. She feels like it is an audist action and very ignorant of the teacher to discriminate against Joseph in this way.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe is worried about how it will be when Aled goes to school and will there be support there for him.\u201d<\/p>
With the help of her mum Bernie (Jane Hazlegrove), Gemma turns up at Joseph\u2019s school with the intention to get the teacher to apologise.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey even offer to help set up an after school class that Gemma would volunteer at but the teacher just dismisses the idea saying she hasn\u2019t got the time, she hasn\u2019t got the money to be teaching sign language and she has got other priorities,\u201d the actress said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt that point, things get out of hand and Gemma and Bernie sort of accidentally end up staging a sit-in and barricade themselves in the classroom.<\/p>\n
\u201cThen they realise that Michael is in there as he was waiting to see the teacher about enrolling Glory \u2013 but he did have cake with him so it wasn\u2019t all bad and he was a very welcome addition to the team. He ended up joining the protest and spending the whole night with them playing ScaleXtric.\u201d<\/p>\n
Will the school rethink their position?<\/p>\n
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