UK schools ban children from making best friends

mrbell1984 said:
I was chatting to a parent the other day and the school where her child goes too is concerned because the child has only one friend. Worlds gone nuts.
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I've found imaginary friends to be much improved from real-life ones.

They rarely complain and tend to be there when most needed.

Not much good for moving furniture or putting up shelves etc. but you gotta take the rough with the smooth.
 
isonomicjedi said:
I've found imaginary friends to be much improved from real-life ones.

They rarely complain and tend to be there when most needed.

Not much good for moving furniture or putting up shelves etc. but you gotta take the rough with the smooth.
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Soul mates are the best friends anyone could ever have, however you don't get it often these days.

I have often wanted a soul mate but can never find anyone worth my time.
 
The first thing I thought of when I read "children are encouraged to play in large groups" was the future is going to be all 'Welcome to the hive, we are one, we are the borg' :)
 
Biohazard said:
But Sir, it wasn't... :o
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Enough of the cheek laddo, any more from you and you'll get a clip round the ear... ;)

It's a fair point that the world moves on but there is a definite tendency amongst some to hanker after previous eras with an inability to accept that change is necessary and normal. The cliche about rose-tinted spectacles is sometimes true it seems. Not all change is good but to try to deny progress in all areas will be about as effective as King Canute's attempt at holding back the tide - although most interestingly what is forgotten about that story was that he was trying to prove to his courtiers that he didn't have the Worldly power to halt the tide, the poor chap is associated incorrectly with hubris when he was attempting to show the opposite.
 
semi-pro waster said:
Hardly. If correct then at most it's a stupid policy in a few schools, it doesn't require a re-evaluation of the entire country or a sweeping generalisation about how "it wasn't like this in my day".
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Don't bring your considered, intelligent opinions into this! :mad::mad::mad::mad:
 
Bobcat said:
The first thing I thought of when I read "children are encouraged to play in large groups" was the future is going to be all 'Welcome to the hive, we are one, we are the borg' :)
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Resistance is futile.

semi-pro waster said:
Hardly. If correct then at most it's a stupid policy in a few schools, it doesn't require a re-evaluation of the entire country or a sweeping generalisation about how "it wasn't like this in my day".
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Now listen here you young whippersnapper, it wasn't like that in my day. :D
 
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