Headteacher bans pupils from touching the snow.

HoratioTarr wrote:It's getting worse.   I blame a compensation culture.

magica wrote:It's because do gooders have ruined all the fun for kids. Might just as well put a glass dome over them.

The thing as well is if anyone fell over, got hit by a snowball, some parents would complain.  I feel sorry for kids nowadays.

Syl wrote:

magica wrote:It's because do gooders have ruined all the fun for kids. Might just as well put a glass dome over them.

The thing as well is if anyone fell over, got hit by a snowball, some parents would complain.  I feel sorry for kids nowadays.

Could be why a record number of youngsters suffer from stress and anxiety....they are not allowed to be kids anymore.

magica wrote:

Syl wrote:


Could be why a record number of youngsters suffer from stress and anxiety....they are not allowed to be kids anymore.

I agree Syl. We used to come in with scrapes on knees, bruises etc. Now kids dont do what kids do, enjoy themselves, get dirty rolling over grass down hills and so on, its utter nonsense.

Syl wrote:

magica wrote:

I agree Syl. We used to come in with scrapes on knees, bruises etc. Now kids dont do what kids do, enjoy themselves, get dirty rolling over grass down hills and so on, its utter nonsense.

When I was young I had a really horrible older sister.
One day it had snowed a lot, she was whinging she couldn't go to school because she couldn't walk in the snow, she was hanging on to the windowsill for dear life, trying to get my mum to let her have the day off school.

I loved the snow...leapt off the step whooping loudly, landed on my arse, got soaking wet and had to go back in to change....my horrible older sister stood there smirking.

The lesson is though....snow is fun.  

magica wrote:

Syl wrote:

When I was young I had a really horrible older sister.
One day it had snowed a lot, she was whinging she couldn't go to school because she couldn't walk in the snow, she was hanging on to the windowsill for dear life, trying to get my mum to let her have the day off school.

I loved the snow...leapt off the step whooping loudly, landed on my arse, got soaking wet and had to go back in to change....my horrible older sister stood there smirking.

The lesson is though....snow is fun.  

I've done that many times lol. I love a snowball fight such fun lol.

Lord Foul wrote:what you expect from a bloody townie

Didge wrote:

Lord Foul wrote:what you expect from a bloody townie

Please correlate how a country bumpkin compared to someone that lives within a city would be any different if they were stupidly radically left wing?

What has the number of houses where someone livews got to do with people being shit scared of libel claims based on dumb health and safety laws?

Maddog wrote:

Didge wrote:

Please correlate how a country bumpkin compared to someone that lives within a city would be any different if they were stupidly radically left wing?

What has the number of houses where someone livews got to do with people being shit scared of libel claims based on dumb health and safety laws?

Well, people with different lifestyle do tend to look at things differently.

A Texas rancher, has a different perspective than a person living in a highrise in Dallas.  

Didge wrote:

Maddog wrote:


Well, people with different lifestyle do tend to look at things differently.

A Texas rancher, has a different perspective than a person living in a highrise in Dallas.  

You mean class and basically snobery then?

You will look down on him and they will look down on you?

How does that solve anything?

Is it born from poor sterotypes?

Maddog wrote:

Didge wrote:

You mean class and basically snobery then?

You will look down on him and they will look down on you?

How does that solve anything?

Is it born from poor sterotypes?

No, I mean rural and urban lifestyles tend to create different outlooks,  regardless of income. I don't do class. I'm American.

Didge wrote:

Maddog wrote:

No, I mean rural and urban lifestyles tend to create different outlooks,  regardless of income. I don't do class. I'm American.

But it is class still, as your outlook of people in cities is still based on a class system

It may not be one based on wealth, but its based on what kind of lifesyle people live

Tribalism

Vintage wrote:Don't schools have to ask parents to come in to put plasters on kids knees these days. I thought teachers were expected to be in locus parentis, they were to us, at least in primary school, they picked us up, cleaned us off, washed and dressed any grazes, dried our tears and gave us a cuddle or a row as the case may be.

gelico wrote:

I know Ges Smith, this headmaster

He's a great bloke