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19 May 2003, 01:31 PM
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Parents have been banned from attending a school sports day for fear of "embarrassing" their children.
Head teacher Judith Wressel is introducing a less competitive format for the event at Maney Hill Primary School in Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands.
She said keeping spectators away while changes were made would be in the children's interest.
But one of the banned parents condemned the move as "political correctness gone mad".
Head teacher Judith Wressel is introducing a less competitive format for the event at Maney Hill Primary School in Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands.
She said keeping spectators away while changes were made would be in the children's interest.
But one of the banned parents condemned the move as "political correctness gone mad".
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19 May 2003, 01:36 PM
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<shakes his head in disbelief>
Is this real, sounds like a stetch from the Fast Show.
FFS - Perhaps the parents will vote with their feet and move their kids to a proper school. How the hell are these kids gonna cope in the real world with real competition if this is how they are educated!
Educated, hah, thats a joke!
Madness, madness, madness
[Edited by Paul Habgood - 5/19/2003 1:41:05 PM]
Is this real, sounds like a stetch from the Fast Show.
FFS - Perhaps the parents will vote with their feet and move their kids to a proper school. How the hell are these kids gonna cope in the real world with real competition if this is how they are educated!
Educated, hah, thats a joke!
Madness, madness, madness
[Edited by Paul Habgood - 5/19/2003 1:41:05 PM]
19 May 2003, 01:52 PM
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Who started al this PC bol10x and when are people going to say enough is enough and stamp it out, now wonder the country is rearing wimpy kids that can't be controlled. WHen I was at school we used to fight, if you went home with a bloody nose dad asked how the other kid was? if you lost you got a clip round the ear not a restarining order or law suit.
19 May 2003, 02:15 PM
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Kids are mean't to get skinned knees and bloody noses, Parents are designed genetically to embarress their kids, law of nature. It's about sharing as much time with you kids as possible. It was only a blink of the eye I was doing the three legged race with my daughter ( that sounds bad if your from Tennessee ) and now I'm paying for her driving lessons. Schools these days are to results orientated, we all mature and find our way at different times in our lives, and when my 6 year old son comes home twice a week with homework and gets stressed out about it, I think we have got something wrong. My school days were fun, from 5 - 18 and I enjoyed every second. Its sad that the level of competence requuired to pass A levels these days would have just scrapped through an O level in my day, I could do my daughters maths A level work now and I've been out of main stream education for 22 years.
19 May 2003, 02:31 PM
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If I had kids and that was their school I'd be very tempted to withdraw them from competing in the sports day altogether frankly. That Head Teacher deserves a slap, flamin' idiot.
19 May 2003, 02:34 PM
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I dunno .... if you've seen the way some of the parents round here behave at local under-7s football matches, you would think the head teacher has a point ....
I've seen dads shouting and swearing at their poor bloody sons who are trying their best, literally like "Competitive Dad" from the Fast Show. Two parents had to be banned from attending matches because they were verbally abusing opposing players and the referee. I feel very sorry for kids growing up in that kind of environment.
[Edited by brickboy - 5/19/2003 2:37:52 PM]
I've seen dads shouting and swearing at their poor bloody sons who are trying their best, literally like "Competitive Dad" from the Fast Show. Two parents had to be banned from attending matches because they were verbally abusing opposing players and the referee. I feel very sorry for kids growing up in that kind of environment.
[Edited by brickboy - 5/19/2003 2:37:52 PM]
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19 May 2003, 02:37 PM
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They are usually the ones who were sh1te at sports themselves. They try to put there own failures behind them by living through there children. Sad as ****.
They are usually the ones who were sh1te at sports themselves. They try to put there own failures behind them by living through there children. Sad as ****.
19 May 2003, 05:51 PM
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How the hell are these kids gonna cope in the real world with real competition if this is how they are educated!
[Edited by Mark Miwurdz - 5/19/2003 5:51:24 PM]
19 May 2003, 06:28 PM
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I feel sorry for children growing up today in this type of ridiculous,false environment,this head teacher is an imbocile.So much for helping a child develop and learning the ways of the world,what is wrong with a bit of good natured fun and friendly competition.
The parents should just keep their children off school on the sports day as a protest or find a new school!
The parents should just keep their children off school on the sports day as a protest or find a new school!
19 May 2003, 06:56 PM
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Can't wait to see how much the govt is going to increase funding to produce a more successful Olympic team, as they usually do.
Wonder if some of the funding will be to pay for this Head's early retirement?
Wonder if some of the funding will be to pay for this Head's early retirement?
19 May 2003, 07:55 PM
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It looks as though the Roman Sandal wearers are all trying to get more and more PC now.
It wont be long before they find out they are actually in competition with each other and then what will they do!
I am just so amazed at the next thing they seem to come up with now. Trouble is, if you ever discuss it with one of them they actually seem to sincerely believe in what they advocate. I wish they would all go to a special place somewhere where they can practice their philosophies on each other and leave us out of it.
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It wont be long before they find out they are actually in competition with each other and then what will they do!
I am just so amazed at the next thing they seem to come up with now. Trouble is, if you ever discuss it with one of them they actually seem to sincerely believe in what they advocate. I wish they would all go to a special place somewhere where they can practice their philosophies on each other and leave us out of it.
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19 May 2003, 08:01 PM
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So .....should Schools be allowed??? Well to sit in a class and see another pupil doing better than you..........could scar you for life !!!!!!
Love it....... makes me laugh.
Love it....... makes me laugh.
19 May 2003, 10:48 PM
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Wellll
My bro plays Ice Hockey for Solihull Barons sometimes and the parents are banned from the training days and home events.
Simply the coaches get more out of the kids if the parents aint around. And it works a treat.
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My bro plays Ice Hockey for Solihull Barons sometimes and the parents are banned from the training days and home events.
Simply the coaches get more out of the kids if the parents aint around. And it works a treat.
Shings
19 May 2003, 11:39 PM
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Stupid, just stupid! 
Thank **** I don't ever plan on having children. Or is that not PC either?
It really is getting beyond control now. And what can be done about it?
People will be having children, and they will be taken away from birth & put into a PC camp where they will come out brainwashed, fitting in with what 'the higher forces' see as a perfect society
Thank **** I don't ever plan on having children. Or is that not PC either?
It really is getting beyond control now. And what can be done about it?
People will be having children, and they will be taken away from birth & put into a PC camp where they will come out brainwashed, fitting in with what 'the higher forces' see as a perfect society