Highly visible shame - Telegraph David Copperfield was made to wear a placard at school: "Take care of him. He bites. The school was utterly grotesque: the hoarse-voiced bully Mr Creakle, and his violent stooge, the wooden-legged Tungay, even David's friend Traddle, drawing skeletons in the margins of his books. How surprising, then, to find that in Nottingham, an eight-year-old boy has been made to wear a high-visibility yellow jacket, after apparently stuffing leaves down someone's neck. "I know other people are looking at me," the boy says, like another Copperfield. Rather creepily, the school claims that teachers will know to "praise and reward more" those in jackets. Hi-vis jackets are a staple of health'n"safety, children often wearing them in the street, like convicts. Now they are seen as a feared livery - not quite the Scarlet Letter, but shamefully bright bibs of the Nanny State.