Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch and there's a new directive out from the Ministry of Silly Walks...
Teachers are being told they cannot chase children who run away from school, and must "track" them and call police instead.
They have been told that running after primary age pupils breaches "safe handling" rules because it can lead them to flee faster.
The advice came to light after a mother criticised teachers for calling officers rather than stopping her four-year-old son themselves when he ran away from school.
...to build upon past programs.
Imbeciles all.
The teachers may be onto to something here.The way Britain is walking off the short pier into deep doodoo,might as well be walking properly.
Cripes.Churchill has probably spun himself halfway to China by now.
That is because these kids do not belong to you, they belong to the government!
Forget the “Hitler youth” – these socialist governments have the “enviro youth” to nurture and groom.
Why did the movie "The Great Escape", "The Prisoner" and Pink Floyd pop into my head at the same time?
Obviously there is too much phys.ed happening, get rid of it, and put a Rottin Ronny's in the cafeteria. Then those little lard asses won't be running anywhere.
This is what the term "police state" means. Only the police have any official power to do anything.
The next teacher who runs after a kid will probably get arrested.
I predict an upsurge in home schooling. To be followed by a home schooling -ban-. As the day follows the night, so shall it be.
What about speed walking very deceptively, would your big nanny state of trackers trying to outwit 4 year olds allow for such a thing?
I mean running, are you kidding me , running is for the insanely suicidal or at the very least those who take the laws of self preservation tremendously lightly.
This just probably inflames the problem because who's to say that once the 4 year old is deceptively speed walked up on , he could lean out of reach.
Leaning out of reach could be extremely perilous for everyone including non running walkers who just happen to be looking.
If the child leaned out of reach as the teacher/tracker leaned forward to grab the child everyone might fall forward and the resulting scrapes contusions and most horribly bruises might occur, forcing the non running walker lookers to look away and thereby lose track of their footsteps also potentially falling forward and incurring more bruises contusions and scrapes.
I guess 4 year olds pretty much have the entire country over a barrel.
Please vote socialist, and get this over quick, it's taking far too long.
Omigod omigod this Martin Johnson guy actually exists, I googled him. At first I thought it was from "the Onion", I laughed a little...
"...but in town it was well known when they got home at night, their fat and psychopathic wives would thrast them within inches of their lives!"
I meant thrash.
Merry ole Englandstan, where social workers will someday chew your food for you lest you choke on a biscut.
Canada's future if the leftards get relected. I like chewing my own food, it will be cold day in hell before I'd trust a leftard to wipe me arse.
I say, let the little bu**ers run and run like Forrest Gump.
These kids are the ones you don't want in the classroom anyway. When they're little they disrupt the classroom all the time; when they get older, they hold their fellow-students hostage to their anti-social, psychopathic behaviour.
Let them run down the road as far as they want; maybe the police will be short of officers the day the school calls ...
when you see some of the Bruthas moving around Terana, you would appreciate the need to teach walking
My wife is an elementary school teacher in Ontario. According to her they more or less do the same thing here and have done so for quite some time. Staff is not there to chase little Johnny Bastard. Having said that, one should question if little Johnny's penchant for off-school strolls is a result of poor behaviour, or poor behaviour management. Well trained staff should be able to deal with situations long before Johnny turns into a runner.
On the other hand, if the kid is a total turd, then he may as well get used to being picked up by the coppers at an early age.
Dano: "Well trained staff should be able to deal with situations long before Johnny turns into a runner."
Trouble is, Dano, "well-trained staff" -- i.e., the ones who know how to handle Johnny via tough love, real consequences, demanding responsibility and accountability -- have either taken early retirement or are in constant pitched battles with the school/board admin. You see, parents are now clients.
Parents should actually be responsible for seeing that their kids don't become runners, but then, we don't ask parents to be responsible anymore. In fact, we've got whole industries -- social workers, child/youth workers, every-kind-of therapist, psychologists, health care workers, literacy specialists, gay/lesbian counsellors -- whose best interests dictate that parents not be responsible.
If parents aren't responsible, these specialists/therapists keep their jobs. If parents become responsible, they don't.
when you see some of the Bruthas moving around Terana, you would appreciate the need to teach walking
Posted by: GYM at March 6, 2009 7:00 PM
That is dope,ma man,we don't walk,we stride,we strut,we be cool,and don't you ever tell us udderwise,because we don't care if we live to twenty-five.Yeah ,we cool. Don't be a fool,slither away from school.
"Well-trained staff"
Yea it great in this new age that teaching and controlling kids in school is a "new art"!
What the hell are the sports psychologists for 14 - 15 year old hyperactive high school girls with ADD going to do if this US economy fails??? After all it's their show to begin with…………………….
What about the puppy psychologists in LA California – It must be a bummer having “niche skills’ when the economy recedes or heaven forbid collapses entirely.