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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!!!

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What next have them walking around the playground in uniformly spaced columns?

So no footy in case you get tackled.
Rugby a no no as its bodies running into each other flat out.
Cross country in case you get a sprain.
Athletics because you could pull a muscle.

Billcat it only takes one politariat bam to start a trend in these curly worleywold we have in this country.

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Didn't realise that kiss chase was banned too, used to love that, though same as Lettie wasn't chased often. Children need to run round and get scrapes and bruises its part of growing up!

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Part of the blame lies with the threat whether real or persived of being sued for not looking after children.

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bloody stupid!
why bother having a playground if you cant play?:mad:
like spuggie said, the threat of being sued probably has something to do with it!:(

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this is completely ridiculous, the geek who has come up with this crap should be disciplined. its great being a kid so let em be KIDS.

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Some properly wouldnt just in case something happened and they lost their chance. Me I would sign a disclaimer.

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when my daughter goes on a day trip with a school they want to know the in and outs of everything.......are they up to date with jabs, are they allergic to anything, emergency numbers, doctors numbers....etc..etc,
and thats not just once its everytime they go somewhere, i dont know why they dont just keep it for reference, we didnt have nowt like that when we where kids!

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Panther that would just be too easy for them and besides which it would mean them checking. They reckon they would be safer getting this info each time in case of changes but Ireckon its laziness.

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This sort of thing makes me furious. So a child may hurt him/herself? It's part of growing up, for goodness sake.

I think back to the way I played as a child, back in the Dark Ages, diving off a hay loft head first into a pile of straw (on a concrete floor), climbing trees etc. and, in the school playground, British Bulldog (fiendish) and chain-tig (if you were on the end you could almost go flying). I sometimes wonder that I survived it all - but I did, often with scabby knees and scraped hands and once with a badly sprained ankle and a dislocated thumb. I was healthy though - and happy.

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I broke my arm twice when i was a kid!
today it would probably be accused as child abuse! bloody daft!!:mad: the worlds gone soft!

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They ask everytime because sometimes there are changes and the parents forget to tell school and so if something does go wrong and they have out of date information what would happen? Everyone will blame the school for not having up to date information on the kids.

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When my son was 5 he was brought home from school one afternoon by his teacher. He looked like a neanderthal with a forehead twice normal size and rapidly going purple. Teacher said he had fallen off the climbing frame in PE. I said thanks for bringing him home (they'd had him lying down in the staff room for 3 hours!), bathed his head, gave him his tea and put him to bed - no concussion. Next day we spent all morning at the hospital where he was tested for a detached retina as he said he couldn't see properly but everything was fine and his forehead went down in about a week.

The thing is
1) we didn't sue the school
2) the hospital didn't suspect us of child abuse
3) no one tried to stop him climbing, jumping etc. in the future - or skateboarding, playing football/rugby/cricket, all of which injured him in one way or another from time to time.
4) he's still alive and well - and nearly 42

I think he was about 23 when he told me he hadn't fallen off the climbing frame - he'd dived off it. :rolleyes:

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I have had plenty of baumps scrapes and bangs on the head and i am ok I think.

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we used to have our knicker elastic over the bars at peel park,have they stopped that now,i dont know whats happening our kids are now told to use antibac hand wash and not to get any mud on their hands at school and on sports day they are not allowed to do the 3 legged race or sack race or egg and spoon race for the fear of getting hurt,i think it is wrapping them up in cotton wool

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Nice one Love your quote :D:D

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I don't understand that. What bars and how? :confused:

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we used to tie elastic (we called it knicker elastic)round the small fence (the bars) at peelpark school,you put the elastic round the bars and the other person puts the elastic round their ankles and the other person jumped over the elastic,unless there was 3 peeps then we didnt have to use the bars,loads of peeps played the game,but i dont remember what it was called,

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"Politariat bam?" "Curly worleywold?" What in the world?

Perhaps they banned the English language as well?

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Not one of my better moments but hopefully it did get my point across. :o

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We used to play that as well, I think we just called it elastics!

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We used to play elastics has well.

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thats the one,have they banned it at schools now?

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It was called Elastics...I still remember the rhyme we sang.

England,Ireland,Scotland,whales-- Inside outside inside ON!!

at which point you had jump on the elastic with both feet.......if both feet were not on the elastic you was out!!



OH happy days....:D:D:D

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About as clear as mud as to whom you were attempting to blame.

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Politicaly correct civil servants.

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I remember that one too, aah the memories!.............