Sure, in the United States we have law suits when teenage
lesbians aren't allowed to take each other to the high
school prom, but in Great Britain the education system
is so screwed up they have torturing children down to a
science.
On the one hand you have the story of a five-year-old
kindergartener who climbed a tree in his school yard and
refused to come down. Due to the school's strict health
and safety policy the teachers were prohibited from helping
him down.
Instead, staff followed guidelines and retreated inside the
school building to "observe from a distance" so the child
would not get "distracted and fall".
It took 45 minutes before a passer-by noticed the child in
the tree and helped him down. And for her trouble the head
teacher of the school reported her to the police for tres-
passing.
Meanwhile, at the middle school level, health and safety
policy apparently dictates that the school should emotionally
and psychologically torture the students.
An "exercise" at a middle school in Worcestershire began
when pupils heard that there was a gun in the school. Five
minutes later the alarm bell sounded and more than 300 were
sent outside and saw three teachers running across the field.
They saw a "gunman" in the distance and heard what sounded
like gunfire before seeing one of the teachers fall to the
ground. Colleagues appeared to attempt to resuscitate him.
It was all part of a big role-playing scenario designed to
teach the children about forensic science, but by the time
teachers got the kids all back in the school's auditorium
to explain everything, many of them were already frightened,
crying and some even getting sick in the bathrooms.
Which is ridiculous! Why should witnessing a brutal murder
frighten ten and eleven-year-olds to the point of being sick?
Anyway, parents complained, understandably, and in response
the school promised that in the future they will tone down
their mock murders. So it's all taken care of!
lesbians aren't allowed to take each other to the high
school prom, but in Great Britain the education system
is so screwed up they have torturing children down to a
science.
On the one hand you have the story of a five-year-old
kindergartener who climbed a tree in his school yard and
refused to come down. Due to the school's strict health
and safety policy the teachers were prohibited from helping
him down.
Instead, staff followed guidelines and retreated inside the
school building to "observe from a distance" so the child
would not get "distracted and fall".
It took 45 minutes before a passer-by noticed the child in
the tree and helped him down. And for her trouble the head
teacher of the school reported her to the police for tres-
passing.
Meanwhile, at the middle school level, health and safety
policy apparently dictates that the school should emotionally
and psychologically torture the students.
An "exercise" at a middle school in Worcestershire began
when pupils heard that there was a gun in the school. Five
minutes later the alarm bell sounded and more than 300 were
sent outside and saw three teachers running across the field.
They saw a "gunman" in the distance and heard what sounded
like gunfire before seeing one of the teachers fall to the
ground. Colleagues appeared to attempt to resuscitate him.
It was all part of a big role-playing scenario designed to
teach the children about forensic science, but by the time
teachers got the kids all back in the school's auditorium
to explain everything, many of them were already frightened,
crying and some even getting sick in the bathrooms.
Which is ridiculous! Why should witnessing a brutal murder
frighten ten and eleven-year-olds to the point of being sick?
Anyway, parents complained, understandably, and in response
the school promised that in the future they will tone down
their mock murders. So it's all taken care of!