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[Taz2]

I really do wonder just what we are coming to.... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2016/05/22/school-bans-aggressive-whistles-from-playground/

Taz x 

[Hurdity]

I agree it's utterly ludicrous - I heard it on the radio this morning.

Also my youngest son says the Student Union (not sure if it's just his university) - have this weird "safe space" policy - which sounds like a good idea in theory (eg showing respect for people) but ends up being mis-guidedly pc and repressing free speech - the latest thing though is the banning of clapping! Instead you have to use jazz hands to show your appreciation - - for the same reason as the whistle I think - that clapping is seen as too aggressive. I mean honestly !!!!!! Wouldn't have happened in our day eh?

Hurdity x

[Joyce]

Good grief! What a load of rubbish. Children need to get used to these things. In my day it was school bell which signalled end of break time. Did we get scared? No!

As for Jazz hands instead of clapping, well words fail me!

[Dyan]

Whatever next? The worlds gone crazy
What is ' jazz hands?'

[Hurdity]

I couldn't work out how to explain but here is a definition I found:

"a gesture originating in musical theatre, in which the hands are waved rapidly to and fro with the palms facing forward and the fingers splayed, used typically to express or indicate excitement or triumph."

Google a few images - and this might amuse you - pretty much shows it in the first few seconds. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuPSIbABYVU

Sorry Taz I didn't mean to stray from your thread....

Hurdity x

[Dyan]

  Hurdity

[babyjane]

I remember at school (juniors) there was always a group of children round the playground duty teacher at break time clamouring for a turn at ringing the heavy school bell. I don't remember anyone running crying because it scared them 

[CLKD]

Jazz hands - think Al Jolson   

Don't throw your mortar board in the photographs this year either 

[booboo]

Beam me up scotty!!  - this is planet earth but not as we used to know it 

[Joyce]

Maybe aliens have landed & are taking over. 

[CLKD]

Will it be skipping they stop next?  In case   

[booboo]

Have they banned mobile phones in schools yet I wonder!  - cant do this, cant do that, cant say this, cant say that- but kids are allowed to chat/text/take pictures & have access to all sorts of undesirable stuff and influences all day long...
My moan of the day ( first of many as I have turned into an old grump)

[Joyce]

Good point booboo!

[babyjane]

very good point 

[CLKD]

Yep - mobiles in School should be banned.  My friend's a teacher - apparently kids text each other across the Classroom  .  I would sit down and let them get on with it  …….. it is up to them to make the decision whether to listen/not, they can make the decision to text after all so that's the English lesson done with 

The only time anything was banned in the Playground was if a fight broke out