WTF!!!!! Just finishing dinner chatting away and the eldest (daughter 10) informed me they now get a bollocking off the dinner ladies if they do any kind of gymnastics type stuff at play time, ie handstands cart wheels etc!! What the **** is this country coming to?? One thing it ain’t is obviously gonna be any medals in the sport that’s for sure!!

It’s PC gone mad I tell you.

It’s me gorn maaaayd, I tell you. 😐

Football’l be next, you watch and see!
Bring back British bulldog I say!!

What the hell are the dinner ladies doing bollocking kids?

Lunchtime supervisers??

always have been haven’t they ?

What the **** is this country coming to??

Well it’s still fine elsewhere.

you can’t be too careful

Tell them to do it anyway.

Is this school policy or someone letting authority go to their head?

Handstands? Disgusting – little girls showing their knickers!
Mind you, my parents always say I spent most of my younger years upside down 😀

Are you a bat?

no she grew up in australia

I did used to hang upside down from trees a lot 🙂

It shows how some parts of the country are over PC, whilst others don’t even do PC (thankfully). Our kids last school had a topsy turvy dress day. So some kids came with tops on their legs, some with clothing inside out, and many (girls included) with underwear outside their clothing. The headteacher would have a criminal record for life if that happened in some parts of the UK. 🙄

tis coz mummy and daddy are suing the arse out of the education authorities at the moment.

claims such as grazed knee from the grit used at winter not being swept away off the playground by the jannie are such things being upheld for payouts

etc etc etc.

Girls can do what they want at my son’s school. I just asked him.

Girls can do what they want at my son’s school.

What, no discipline at all? 😯

well personally i’m DISGUSTED!

FURIOUS!

WHAT KIND OF HIPPY MADNESS IS THIS?!

(have they also banned physical education?)

My son broke his right arm at school yesterday (supra-condylar ?sp). He fell from a climbing frame at his primary school in Auckland.
It’s a right of passage

Girls have self control. I quote: “They are just not naughty and the teachers trust them.”
“Boys could do gymnastics but just choose not to.”

I have a small 1″ scar on my left hand caused by Sarah Donovan’s shoe heel as she swung down from doing a hayndstaynd against the wall of the school playground. I can’t remember if she showed her knickers or not; it was around 1979-80.

I do remember that it proper ****ing bloody hurt. And bloody bled copiously.

She owned a Grifter, same as me, and had quite good skilz on it. We once saw a couple ‘at it’ in a Ford Fiesta in Victoria Park, while out on our bikes one weekend afternoon.

Last I saw her, she was working in a NatWest I think it might have been, on Mare St. That was I think around 1990.

tis coz mummy and daddy are suing the arse out of the education authorities at the moment.

Are they? Evidence please.

the missus is just finishing off an i-osh course ( no idea how you spell it ) which is based around the creation of risk-assessments in the education establishments

whether its scaremongering or not, its apparently been a list of what mummy / daddy and kiddy are suing for … some of which are legit where you think fair do’s and others are as listed above.

The same list of examples included this one

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-11821439

What the **** is this country school coming to??

FTFY.

I shall complain if they ban handstands and cartwheels at our local school. It truly brightens my day to see the girls having such fun.

I have just returned from working on a school building site in the Kapiri district of Uganda. At breaktimes and lunchtimes, the headteacher would send kids over to help on the site. Cutting bricks with machettes, digging foundations with sharp hoes, shifting large granite hardcore pieces and lugging around old skool 50kg cement bags. The school is a primary school and most kids are between 6 and 10 yrs old!

The same list of examples included this one

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-11821439
Congratulations. You appear to have found an example of a pretty legitimate reason to sue where a risk assessment should have been carried out, the result of which is unlikely to limit what pupils can do. Don’t you think that maybe doing risk assessments is actually a perfectly reasonable thing to do, whether or not parents are suing.

They’ll be banning British Bulldog’s next. The younger chaps look at me like I’m mad when I suggest a game in the office at lunchtime. Usually end up playing on my own, with the coat stand. They frown at my doing my hand stands also.

Same rampant over-PC here in the US as well. No dodge-ball, tag or similar activity in many elementary schools—God forbid that they allow any sports/contests where they keep actually score because someone might win and damage the ego of the ones that lose.

Same rampant over-PC here in the US as well.

Doing handstands and cartwheels is a “politically correct” issue ?

They’ve banned proper footballs from my kids primary school since September.

Lots of the boys used to take their own footballs in to play with at lunch time but a lad stood on one when trying to kick it and fell breaking his arm.

Now they can only use tennis balls or ‘foam’ full size footballs.

What a crock.

Doing handstands and cartwheels is a “politically correct” issue ?

PC a poor choice of words on my part, but I think you know what I mean

PC a poor choice of words on my part, but I think you know what I mean

Did you mean “it’s the nanny state gone mad” ?

That’s the problem with knee-jerk conservative rhetoric……….you can get your “it’s political correctness gone mad/the nanny state gone mad/human rights gone mad” all mixed up.

It’s the fact that it’s knee-jerk, and bypasses the brain, what does it.

BTW, can you deport an illegal immigrant if they own a cat in the US ? ……you can’t here in the UK. Shocking.

I thought it was me what’s gorn maaayd? 😐

No?

BTW, can you deport an illegal immigrant if they own a cat in the US ? ……you can’t here in the UK. Shocking

First I’ve heard of it—you can deport someone who is here illegally, but don’t think owning a cat has anything to do with it.

I didn’t post to get into a p*****g contest over liberal vs conservative politics–just stated my agreement that some of these imposed limitations on kids by schools are, as neninja put it, “a crock”

from our primary school this week, all hair that is long enough to be secured with a ‘bobble’ should be worn that way at all times ( m and f) as apparently long hair has beeen the cause of an accident this week.
gymnastics must not be performed / practiced on any part of the school grounds ( they not allowed to do forward rolls in PE even)
little miss tts was 6 two weeks ago she took a box of sweeties for her class mates to share.. the teacher would not accept them as the school has a clear policy on food consumed on premises ( no sweets soft drinks crisps)
however the staff room is always full of sweets and biscuits and i havent seen a teacher refuse an end of term gift box of roses..

little miss tts was 6 two weeks ago she took a box of sweeties for her class mates to share.. the teacher would not accept them as the school has a clear policy on food consumed on premises ( no sweets soft drinks crisps)

Well what did you expect exactly?

aracer – Member

little miss tts was 6 two weeks ago she took a box of sweeties for her class mates to share.. the teacher would not accept them as the school has a clear policy on food consumed on premises ( no sweets soft drinks crisps)

Well what did you expect exactly?

The same as they do at most schools. Which is to hand them out as the kids leave for the day and that way they are eating them off school grounds.