December 27, 200816 yr Author i agree with craig.... schools are and have been ever since the schoolteachers were ex hippies or of that generation, been far too soft on kids. life IS about survival, and kids should be taught how to deal with the knocks, not that knocks dont happen!!!! sports days SHOULD be competitive because thats what sport is about! ffs! not everybody can win the race, in the same way that not everyone can pass that exam... they should be teaching kids to play to whichever strengths they have and to accept that not everybody has the same talents but theres no shame in that.
December 27, 200816 yr i agree with craig.... schools are and have been ever since the schoolteachers were ex hippies or of that generation, been far too soft on kids. life IS about survival, and kids should be taught how to deal with the knocks, not that knocks dont happen!!!! sports days SHOULD be competitive because thats what sport is about! ffs! not everybody can win the race, in the same way that not everyone can pass that exam... they should be teaching kids to play to whichever strengths they have and to accept that not everybody has the same talents but theres no shame in that. One thing that amuses me (and annoyed my son) is the need for, particularly in primary school, to include EVERY child in the nativity or end of year play! By this - I mean being actually on the stage. From primary school, each year, my son begged me to get him out of the nativity play - yes teachers - it may come as a shock ... but not every child wants to be on the stage. The answer was always no ... one year he was a star, the next year a sheep. One year he was even a frigging bear! A bear! In Bethlehem? I'm hoping now that he's at secondary school he can just get on with helping behind the scenes ... I've got an awful feeling though .... Norma
December 27, 200816 yr Author One thing that amuses me (and annoyed my son) is the need for, particularly in primary school, to include EVERY child in the nativity or end of year play! By this - I mean being actually on the stage. From primary school, each year, my son begged me to get him out of the nativity play - yes teachers - it may come as a shock ... but not every child wants to be on the stage. The answer was always no ... one year he was a star, the next year a sheep. One year he was even a frigging bear! A bear! In Bethlehem? I'm hoping now that he's at secondary school he can just get on with helping behind the scenes ... I've got an awful feeling though .... Norma tbh im surprised they can still perform a nativity play.... but yet again, its this 'inclusion' thing , the suggestion that everyones equal when in the real world we arnt. (that is, equal in talents in every subject). on a personal level i object to the utter bollox that IS the nativity, its a traditional lie.
December 28, 200816 yr on a personal level i object to the utter bollox that IS the nativity, its a traditional lie. Same here. But, just to take Norma's point though, bears in the bloody desert.... :lol: :lol: It's true though, some kids just dont want to be in the school play, I didn't, couldn't be bothered with it, but my school actually held rehearsals for those actually interested and who had a bent towards that sort of thing... There was none of this "everyone on stage" nonsense that Norma talks about.....
December 28, 200816 yr . Apparantly it signifies "violence/murder". Blue signifies "Suicide" and Green symbolises "Jealousy", :rolleyes: And here was me thinking that red also symbolised danger, passion, fire, etc... blue also represented tranquility, calmness, oceans, and green also represented nature.... I guess the whole "feeling blue" thing is where the suicide/depression element comes in.... But who the fukk uses that expression anymore.....? It's a bloody American expression anyway, from the 1940s/50s.... Seems to me that teachers cant really use any colours at all for marking because on some level, ALL colours kind of represent something a bit negative as well as positive... ....Except pink..... :lol: Of course, boys are gonna hate that one though...... :lol:
December 29, 200816 yr Public Sector workers are, in general, pretty poorly paid in comparison to Private sector workers while they are in work, so I guess a "gold plated" Final Salary pension scheme is kinda to make up for that fact. Hate to disagree with you but public sector workers now earn on average more than private sector workers, so their retirement plans are actually no longer sustainable when you consider that they are subsidised by those private sector workers who earn less and have much less of a pension than public sector workers
December 29, 200816 yr tbh im surprised they can still perform a nativity play.... Yeah i'm surprised now. 4 years ago at my primary school we had assembly, at that school now its called "Collective worship" :rolleyes: . This is in a village where i don't think i've ever seen a non-british/eastern european person there in my whole life, nor in the villages surrounding it or the entire Peak District tbh (except for tourists, but even so they seem to attract British pensioners mainly). Even in the local town everyone is white, so it really doesn't matter, but apparantly it does. Hate to disagree with you but public sector workers now earn on average more than private sector workers, so their retirement plans are actually no longer sustainable when you consider that they are subsidised by those private sector workers who earn less and have much less of a pension than public sector workers True.
January 2, 200916 yr It goes in line with banning races in Sports Day. So what? God forbid, children will experience a good sense of competition, learn how to be good sports, except life is about losing aswell as winning. Thank GOD I'm old enough to not experience such yucky PC bollocks while I was at school. This red pen thing is almost borderline hysterical. Bring back the f***ing cane and let's get some hardcore discipline back into the classroom!
January 2, 200916 yr It goes in line with banning races in Sports Day. So what? God forbid, children will experience a good sense of competition, learn how to be good sports, except life is about losing aswell as winning. Thank GOD I'm old enough to not experience such yucky PC bollocks while I was at school. This red pen thing is almost borderline hysterical. Bring back the f***ing cane and let's get some hardcore discipline back into the classroom! Check youtube, Alan Carr Tooth Fairy talking about Sports Day, says it all. :lol: Hey, when I was year 5 we were only allowed to play 'No contact tag'. It's the only thing I can remember from being little, and I don't think we ever found a way to work that one out. :heehee:
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