Has britain gone stir crazy??

Whats wring with britain today.

Watchinh tv yesterday and they saying about a school banning mothers day card so as to not offend orphans. Just cos you dont have a mum doesn't mean you cant make a card for the person who cares for you.

There was a primary school who banned skipping ropes in case there was suicidal child??? do children think of suicide at 5 or 6yrs, or are we just putting ideas in their heads?



My friends mum was a dinner lady and she got into trouble for cutting a 5 yr olds food up for them.



Anybody else worried about this or just me??

Has britain gone stir crazy??
Nah, that can't just be you. The school systems are so afraid of litigation they are going overboard to protect themselves from every conceivable possibility.



We're getting some of that over here in the states.



There is a "no touch" policy. Which means they can't play tag.



Huh? We played tag as kids. We played dog pile and break the chain. We slid across the ice patches and ran into each other... Now they tell 'em "No running!". Come on! They can't work off their energy and then when they get back to class the teachers wonder why they can't sit still.



Another kid "..fell on top.." of my kid and my kid thought it was on purpose so he hit him. He's in 2nd grade. They classified it as Assault and Battery. Just so you know, Assault and Battery is a term the police use when you beat someone up.



We're ready to home school our kids. If I didn't think it might turn 'em into social retards we'd already be doing it... It's that or pay for private school.



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Reply:you should be ashamed for using a computer which emits radiation in such a close proximity to local children and youre damaging the environment - i need councelling for what youve done to me.



seriously though - yep its all nuts, so i stick to one simple rule, i live inside my own little imaginary bubble and have nothing to do with any situation that doesnt already involve me unless its some sort of request for help from an adult who is willing to sign a release beforehand.
Reply:Britain has NOT gone stir crazy, many of the people have though
Reply:i watched the same programme.



phillip schofield was fuming,



my daughter is now 16 and when she was in nursery,they taught tem baa baa white sheep,as not to offend,then the only black kid in the class,i was fuming,i went straight into the school and demanded my child either sang the right version or not to sing it at all,that was like 13 years ago,

people are now to afraid to speak up,incase they are branded racist.



also teachers are not allowed to quitely have a word with parents,of whom children have nits,even tho they know who they are,and head teachers can only send out 2 nit letters a month,incase they offend people with nits..

like doh....bring back nitty nora,the bug explorer



this country is a complete joke...
Reply:You're not alone in being worried....



This wonderful Great Britain is going loony tunes with rules



Protect our kids yes

wrap 'em in cotton wool? Nah... how can they develop?



We need to find that in between again... and stop spoiling our future generations, and allow them to grow...
Reply:im adinner lady at my sons school.we dont have that level of paranoia yet!but its all too political i agree!xxthink we are lucky-we moved here to Sufolk to escape the Essex crap bout 4 years ago.wer miss the life but its the best thing ever 4 my son!!
Reply:i saw that - it was on this morning. It is pc gone mad My son is in primary school and if he couldn't do up his trousers after using the loo i would go mad that no-one was allowed to help him and he was upset. And the fact that fooball in banned in a school because if the ball hits you it hurts - a lot of things in life hurt, kids have to learn. If the ball hit them in the face and it hurt they will learn to duck, it did the rest of us no harm! Most kids after a quick cuddle forget about the pain and run off to join in again. - oh yeah i forgot you can't hug kids!!! Give us a break.
Reply:The basics of it is our very existence as British people is offensive to some twisted hyper liberal minds as this is never going to stop until we weed them out of positions of power



Their thinking is we should be doormatts for everyone else because 100 years ago we were so so horrible to everyone else.





Time to get rid of the hyper liberals/PC police and fast

before they do anymore damage to the UK



In terms of the effect PC policy has had on schools, they now cannot appreciate mothers day and yet are soon to be fed bias towards certain alterantive sexualitys in the forms of story books?



It must be an Utter Nightmare in todays scools
Reply:you are not alone my friend,it is silly,my mum has passed on but i still get her a little something like and ornamante or card, this is an ongoing problem like nits if a teacher sees a nit in a childs hair then they are not allowed to tell that parent as its classed as discrimination,thats prob y they are such a problem these days i wouldnt be offended if they told me my child had nits id wanna know.
Reply:i would hate to be at school now. it must be sh*t. kids aren't allowed to play anymore. coming home with skinned knees etc; was part of a good day at school.

too much " cotton wool " approach now. what sort of woosses will be about in 20 years time if they haven't experienced a bit of rough and tumble or the true facts of life ?
Reply:I agree with you, its all getting so pathetic. Its gone beyond common sense now and into stupidity. The way things are going we wont be able to doanything in the future without risk of offending someone or breaking some pathetic and over sensitive helath and safety regulation. Why cant we just be allowed to be British and get on with our lives.
Reply:I totally agree with you. Everyone seems paranoid to me nowadays. Frightened to do anything 'normal' in case we offend someone.
Reply:Hahahahahaha, that is hilarious, and yes is would concern me, if I lived in Britain. Fortunatly, i live in America. God Bless.