Too Bureaucratic for Bureaucrats

Campus Report ^ | July 15, 2009 | Deborah Lambert

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Too Bureaucratic for Bureaucrats

by: Deborah Lambert, July 15, 2009

It had to happen. Now even the teachers in the UK are having second thoughts about the nanny state.

A recent survey conducted by Teachers TV showed that nearly half the country’s teachers think that school safety measures have gone so far as to actually inhibit learning, according to SkyNews.com.

When asked to name the most restrictive measures, some of them included actions like “banning running in playground, canceling physical education classes when the grass was wet, and making students wear goggles when putting up posters.

Others listed were “banning consumption of sweets due to choking hazard and not allowing children to play with toilet tube rolls.”...

[End Times Sentinel]

half the country’s teachers think that school safety measures have gone so far as to actually inhibit learning

Here in the U.S., I was driven to distraction in school, thinking about where my gun was, what it was doing, thinking, etc....

[the anti-liberal]

"... students wear goggles when putting up posters"

May as well wrap them in bubble wrap and pad the walls and desks in classrooms.

When will kids be allowed to be kids again?

What will these kids be like when they 'grow up'?

[sniper63]

"What will these kids be like when they 'grow up'?"

Did you see Bambi throw out the first pitch at the AS game? That's what they will grow up to be like...

[Woebama]

“... students wear goggles when putting up posters”
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Meanwhile, since they are still kids, they are making molotov cocktails, jumping off the roof, stealing Mom’s car, shooting at each other with air rifles, throwing sand in each others eyes in schoolyard fights, pretending to be the Count of Monte Cristo while wielding a real knife, sword fighting with pointy things and barely missing each others eyes, skateboarding, playing in flash floods, eating pet food to see what it tastes like, chasing wild animals, trying to ride cows, blowing up ants nests with firecrackers, making bomb bay doors on model airplanes and then making a real bomb to go inside it, teasing growling dogs, trying to make a horse run, swimming across lakes with motorboats in it, throwing clay at electrical boxes, playing in construction sites and abandoned homes, and the like. At least the boys are. I’ve never been a little girl.