18.1.14 School Farce

School Farce - Number 642

The latest 'health and safety' silliness has arisen, with a Wallsend primary school banning running in the playground.  Obviously society has (via playground directives) dispensed with the pastime of 'conkers', and it seems that vigorous movement is now another evil that has to be stopped.  The head teacher came out with a bizarre and annoying load of guff:

"We are working hard with the children to change the focus of their physical activity at play times and lunchtimes to make it more purposeful, whilst allowing them to run off excess energy and take plenty of exercise."

This load of carefully constructed tosh is undermining common sense, and normal practice.  Not being allowed to play 'Bulldog' or 'tag' in the playground is deprivation.  I'd rather the school concentrated on some rather more straightforward tasks, like educating the children.  This is not something that's being done, based on the further comment from the head teacher:

"I suspect that the "play safe, play sensible" work we are doing with our children to help them understand that they need to think of others when they are playing boisterously has been misinterpreted."

Hmmm . . . "play safe, play sensible" is completely wrong!  How about teaching the kids what a fucking adverb is, rather than fucking off the kids and parents with dictatorial bollocks about playground activities?

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