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I couldn't believe my ears when I heard this reported on BBC1 just a few minutes ago...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/ne...00/6356189.stm

So I checked the website and sure enough, it wasn't a joke.

The headmistress said that she wanted the children in her charge "to consider what might be appropriate". At five to eight years old...what might be appropriate...what is happening to this wretched country??????

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oh how pathetic is that,we used to play allsorts in the playground when i was a kid, british bulldog, tig and we rarely got hurt, if we did we'd pick ourselves up and dust ourselves off n start again, or give as good as we got......what a loada mens dangly bits

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i'm not sayin we shud do this to kids

but i got electrocuted thanks to my own ingenius experimentation of stickign wires into sockets

now ok it buzzed etc and i let go but u learn from these

u run fall down and pick urself up

thats life

there's far too much safety on.

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For goodness sake!!!! Who in their right mind appoints these idiots into highly paid jobs. No wonder the state of education in this country is appalling when the headmistress of an infant/junior school has nothing better to do than make stupid rules about playing tag. No doubt I would have spent a hell of a lot of time in detention had I been at her school.

I loved playing contact games at school and had injuries as a result (including a fracture). Children learn by playing games, at the very least, they learn not to make the same mistake twice..;) :)

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kids wont know how to play and make there own games up soon

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How bloody pathetic.

I'm glad the little angels didn't go to my school QEGS, where I was the undefeated British Bulldog champion for many years running.

They'll be banning eye-spy with my little eye next, because it puts the dyslexic at a disadvantage.

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Folks, it is only one silly administrator who grossly overreacted. There are always a few twits in any profession. This one has obviously fulfilled the conditions of the Peter Principle and reached his/her level of incompetence.

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Electric wires into sockets? I managed it with Dad's keys! Once, only once!
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Still have the curly hair that resulted!

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Its ridiculous she's bothered over a bit of tag, just wait till they're giving each other dead arms!:D

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Does this mean that sports are going to be given up as well? I broke my foot when i was 11 playing netball - thats a contact sport more often than not and what about football and rugby etc?

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Makes you wonder what sort of parents the children have if they aren't doing anything about it. It's about time we started objecting to people like this ruining our establishments and country.

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According to the main BBC news site Kiss Chase is banned as well!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/6356865.stm


This is the only exercise some children get, running away from the girl with the snotty nose, and a mouthful of coldsores.:D

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Awwww, I used to love playing kiss chase at infant school. I was the girl who used to stand still but never got caught..:( It was nothing to do with my snotty nose, I was just an ugly duckling..:o
There was only one young lad who used to try and kiss me, he had terrible eyesight and was uglier than I was.. It was probably the only time that I used to run..:D

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The other thing is that they moan about children being unfit & not getting enough exercise then in another breath they ban good sources of exercise :confused:

Blumming give in one hand take away in the other as typical of this stupid country - about time for some rebelling!!!