Posted on 03/22/2012 12:01:52 PM PDT by massmike
TEACHERS are banning schoolkids from having best pals — so they don't get upset by fall-outs.
Instead, the primary pupils are being encouraged to play in large groups.
Educational psychologist Gaynor Sbuttoni said the policy has been used at schools in Kingston, South West London, and Surrey.
She added: "I have noticed that teachers tell children they shouldn't have a best friend and that everyone should play together.
"They are doing it because they want to save the child the pain of splitting up from their best friend. But it is natural for some children to want a best friend. If they break up, they have to feel the pain because they're learning to deal with it."
Russell Hobby, of the National Association of Head Teachers, confirmed some schools were adopting best-friend bans.
(Excerpt) Read more at thesun.co.uk ...
insane
Living in a wet, cold, boggy, moldy place makes people crazy, apparently.
Reading the comments now. All of them are against this rubbish. Maybe there’s some hope for Britain after all.
Best friends, God and Family are dangers to communist regimes because they undermine the goal of government being your #1 influence and #1 motivation.
Allow me to add asinine and idiotic.
If implemented on a wide scale basis, the result will be a nation of Adult Children.
I get it now. It’s okay if two little boys have sex with each other so long as they’re not good friends.
People come in and out of our lives constantly. It’s part of life. If somebody’s meant to be in a person’s life, they will be there eventually one way or the other. An no bureaucrat can do anything about it.
Hopefully parents are pulling their kids out of these schools apparently taught by psychopaths.
They can’t have best pals. However, they can have butt buddies.
This smacks of them trying to tell the kids who their friends will be...like faggots and such.
Every single time I think “I can’t possibly read anything dumber than that crap I read yesterday”........
A great psychiatrist, Harry Stack Sullivan, wrote books about how mental and emotional health was predicated on forming best friend relationships in pre-adolescence.
there is a new book called QUIET. forgot the author but it is interesting even if she is a libtard. it discusses being introverted in an extroverted world. even folks who appear extroverted may not be. basically the us indoctrination system from kiddie garden through business school looks down on kids and students who would prefer some alone time reading to being in a group activity all the time. i don’t think it was her intent but it’s scary how the indoctrinattion system does what it does. reminds me of the ‘50s when left handers were forced to write right handed.
Old Blighty (aka Perfidious Albion aka the UK) is the center of the whirlpool of Leftist thought and practice. It’s goal is to drag the West into the abyss of destruction. This is just another nail in the old coffin.
Time to nuke the island from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.
Well..... your post, I'm sure, was sarcastic. But I think that it's closer to the mark than either of us know.
Another example of the “collective” mindset overtaking America today.
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