The day PC went OTT

Posted 11 Feb 2010 by Walaa Idris

Happy Valentines Day

How is banning a primary school students from exchanging Valentine’s Day cards is going to protect them form emotional trauma!? The Mail online has a piece by Ryan Kisiel on how teachers of Ashcombe Primary School in Weston-super- Mare, Somerset has done just that – because they believe children are not emotionally mature enough to understand relationships. What relationships are we talking about here – with each other, with family members, or with people period?

The head of that school has missed a great opportunity to teach and send a great message. Love does not have to be only one type or ‘the X-Rated’ variety. There are many facets to love pure and innocent enough that 5 to 11 year old feel and are emotionally capable to understand, such as love of their family, love of country, God, friends, love thy neighbours…..the list is long and endless. And God knows some people – more today than ever before – need to learn about true love and how to give it and accept it.

Unfortunately, that school has taken the easy way out – ban the day. It would have been more conducive if each student was asked to make one card with a simple and age appropriate message of love, put them in a box and at the end of the school day give each child a card – preferably not their own – to take home. This way the school can guarantee that each child that day has received one fond message…….Imagine that!

3 comment(s)

Steve Foley

Steve Foley
13 Feb, 08:43

I often wonder if the PC Brigade will not be happy until children live in a sealed chamber protected not only from the germs of life but from all of the risks and rewards thereof.

Back in 1999 there was an almost total eclipse of the sun visble here in the Southern UK and I remember watching it through the proper protective glasses in the comfort of the car park of my flat. In one of the local schools they forbade the kids from watching it, with the proper glasses, and they could only see the TV coverage. A couple of friends of mine, not wishing their child to miss such a historic and often once in a lifetime spectacle kept them home from school, ostensibly with a “Tummy Upset”, and watched it with the appropriate protection from their garden. GOOD FOR THEM said I!

I feel that this Government in particular and its canting crew of self-styled “experts” has abolished the Wonder of Childhood

David T Breaker

David T Breaker
13 Feb, 16:53

“ It would have been more conducive if each student was asked to make one card with a simple and age appropriate message of love, put them in a box and at the end of the school day give each child a card – preferably not their own – to take home. This way the school can guarantee that each child that day has received one fond message…….Imagine that!”

What a good idea! Or they could have done a Secret Santa type set up – names in a hat, pick one each at random, then make a card for that person perhaps with a letter explaining what they like about that person, which would make them think. They could have tied it in with Art, PSHE, English.

They’ll ban Christmas Cards next, in case someone gets more than others!

Walaa

Walaa
13 Feb, 18:43

@David actually a school in East London has baned Christmas cards and all things Christmas because they ‘might’ offend non Christians!!!

It is mind boggling – who comes up with this silliness – no common sense whatsoever.

I was brought up a Muslim and loved (and still do) every accept of Christmas and never once was offended by them. Back in the Sudan I had a Jewish friend who after a fight in the school grounds crossed my name form her Birthday party (she gave the coolest parties). I was very offended that she did not see that our friendship went beyond school fights, I was 9 at the time.

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