tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21544361.post2749353563209107033..comments2023-05-27T12:03:28.241+01:00Comments on Five Chinese Crackers: Let's make up some nonsense about PC with the SunFive Chinese Crackershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09395982651352498540noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21544361.post-67727618029553714532007-06-04T22:08:00.000+01:002007-06-04T22:08:00.000+01:00Actually, the plasters one does have some basis in...Actually, the plasters one does have some basis in reality. As it was explained to me some years ago by someone who trained NNEB nursery nurses, you're not supposed to use plasters because they can set off skin allergies in some children (some adults, too -- my late wife had problems with them, for example), so you're apparently supposed to use sterile gauze dressings instead.<br><br>Don't ask me why schools can't use hypoallergenic plasters, which is what my wife used to use in preference to the conventional sort. Too expensive, possibly.Not Saussurehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16261214039693203494noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21544361.post-58273632524839961492007-06-04T18:35:00.000+01:002007-06-04T18:35:00.000+01:00Wonder what the Sun would've made of Pogs bein...Wonder what the Sun would've made of Pogs being banned from my junior school and yo-yos (the trick ones that went through a brief fad) being banned from my secondary school? Good sound reasons for both as I recall; kids ended up kicking the shit out of each other over losing a particularly rare Pog in a match, not to mention the fact you saw the occasional 'slammer' made of metal that could actually blind someone if it ricocheted. As for yo-yos, the ban was imposed shortly after they started being used as weapons. I wonder what Der Sturmer and the Scum would have said?Jamesrainmanlite.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21544361.post-87299788453632749692007-06-04T17:41:00.000+01:002007-06-04T17:41:00.000+01:00I nearly posted on this on Saturday. I got throug...I nearly posted on this on Saturday. I got through about the first 6, then lost the will to live. Glad someone else did instead.<br><br>I looked up the Apple one, and found a 15-year-old had been given a detention for eating an apple outside somewhere. If anything it reminded me of how authoritarian and ridiculously harsh some schools are on discipline, which is rather anathema to the political correctness argument. The deferred success one is also real, and it was a ex-teacher who submitted it to a trade union general meeting for it to be discussed, and she was, in her own words, being deliberately provocative in order to start a debate. It was also based on the fact that with the new modular exams that a child can still pass 75% of the papers and a fail just one of them and still be a "failure". The nursery rhymes one is also fishy, as they've been stories about the changing of "baa baa black sheep" because it's racist going back decades, and they've all been bollocks.septicislehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03369157723084834549noreply@blogger.com