No more pencils, no more books. Well, no pencil holders anyway.
Primary school bans pencil cases
Two students at St Anne’s Primary School in Denton, Greater Manchester, got into a bout of “boisterous play”. One of them, aged nine, got superficial cuts from a letter opener wielded by his friend. The school’s solution to this problem? Ban pencil holders.
Glenys Dyer, head teacher at St Anne’s, said: “We have banned all pupils from bringing pencil cases and their contents into school to prevent any other potentially harmful instruments being brought into the classroom.”
She said the decision to exclude [expel] the child sent “a clear message to both the child and the school community that this is unacceptable behaviour which we take very seriously.”
Ms Dyer added: “It was a boisterous play between two friends which got out of hand as a consequence of involving a letter opener which had inadvertently been brought into school in a pencil case by another child, and we believe there were no malicious intentions.”
No malicious intentions, inadvertent minor injury. The logical solution for this administration is to expel the student and institute a ban on pencil boxes. Just what do these Brit administrators have against pencils? Just a few months ago we profiled a story where they banned pencil sharpeners. Pretty soon these students will be relegated to using blunted crayons.
(Tip credit to Steve Birks)
I’m not sure which is worse, the fact that this has happened or the fact that the BBC actually sounds sympathetic to the administrator who suspened the kid till Easter.
Key quotes:
“The nine-year-old boy suffered minor cuts to his chest and leg when he was involved in what the school say was “boisterous play”.”
And yet the BBC leaves the following sentence in the article as it’s own paragraph for emphasis
“The boy who carried out the attack has been suspended until Easter. ”
So it was considered “boisterous play” by all involved, but the BBC describes the incident and the pupil involved as having ‘attacked’ the other student. That type of logic would certainly justify the long-term suspension by the school.
I wonder when, exactly, we lost all command of common sense. Years it seems.
Hell, it’s been so long that I can’t even remmeber the last time we had it…..
Stupidity knows no boundaries. Zero-tolerance started here and is now wending its way around the world.
I guess it’s sort of good to know that we are not alone, right?
They must ban fingers, too. You can put an eye out.
This could all be fixed by making the school uniform a straight jacket.
they would never let a child use a blunted crayon it could be pushed into there eye. they might make all activatys verble but then some one might say bad words that hurt someones feelings