Today my 7 year old daughter got told off at school for...

AHarvey said:
holding her best friends hand.

Her and 3 friends got told off last week because they were touching each other playing tag.

WTF is wrong with the world
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Bloody hell, when I was about 6 or 7 around the mid-1970s, we played 'Kiss Chase' during playtime whereby if you got caught by a girl she was allowed to kiss you. That was pretty icky when you were a boy of that age and thought girls were horrid, smelly things. Dear God, that'd have the #MeToo brigade having an attack of the vapours nowadays, bleating about consent and potential sexual assault. Sadly, Kiss Chase wasn't still a thing by the time we were hormone-fuelled teenagers :D ...
Hades said:
Same here. Back in my school days (1970's and 1980's) British Bulldog was a full contact sport. It was great.
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We used to go to Judo lessons after school and Bulldog was played as part of this. The idea was you used a judo move to bring someone down, but it never worked that way in practice - there was a kid in the class who we all disliked and more often than not we used to deliberately get taken out early so we could all go after this poor bugger.
Hades said:
We also used to randomly point at someone and shout "bundle!" and everyone in the playground would run up and bundle on top of them.
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Same here! Huge fun if you were one of the bundlers, not so much if you were the bundlee ...
Vexr said:
I now don't regret not having kids yet. If I had a kid who was in school for this nonsense, I'd be aghast. It looks like folks are waking up to the BS going on and there's a strong movement of common sense coming about amongst parents/sensible folk, and whatever the outcome of that is will result in a more sane (or severely oppressive if unlucky) world.
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Same - whilst I do have some personal regrets in never having kids of my own, I AM glad I've avoided having to deal with the BS they get fed in schools nowadays if threads like this are anything to go by. Call me old-fashioned, idealistic or simplistic if you want, but a school's job is to teach my child to read, write and add-up, how to respect discipline and via sport, to teach them how to compete, in order to prepare them for the world of work. To nurture any special talents my child might be discovered to have.

Not to fill their heads with the fluffy politics of the teachers, nor to monitor my child's diet and bodyweight on my behalf and contact Social Services if they're the slightest bit out of a green sector on a BMI chart.
 
British Bulldog is probably classed as racist these days just because of the name and I bet no school would allow it due to the excessive health and safety protocols. It's quite scary that generations are growing up glued to social media and with very little physical interactions and then people wonder why people have become so sensitive and you've got #metoo with women calling being touched on the shoulder sexual assault/harrassment etc. I've seen videos online with SJW who are convinced that misgendering someone is an "act of violence" against them, the left seem to be just changing the meaning of words and teaching everybody that any physical interaction is bad and it's probably all being taught in schools/university.
 
Lol this thread went off on a tangent! Where are my school football players at? Headers and volleys? Cupsies? Wembley singles / doubles? And who can forget batty licks!

Sounds so strange now saying this in my head as an adult...

I also remember messing around with conkers, oiling them up to harden them and getting a 'brainy' was the best!
 
dowie said:
People do try to make use of the fact that it isn't perfect to try and rubbish it in general, which is silly, most people aren't big bodybuilders, most adults in the UK are fat and BMI is fine for them.
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I wonder how many adults have a fatty liver in the UK. It is quite rare to see an adult in good shape when out and about.
 
skaif said:
Lol this thread went off on a tangent! Where are my school football players at? Headers and volleys? Cupsies? Wembley singles / doubles? And who can forget batty licks!

Sounds so strange now saying this in my head as an adult...

I also remember messing around with conkers, oiling them up to harden them and getting a 'brainy' was the best!
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Cheese cutter conkers!

Cheats would soak them in vinegar and bake them to harden them up.
 
Didn't really have any games during primary school, but I went to secondary school just south of London in early 2000s, and we had bundles, slapsies, and had a game which for some (unfortunate) reason was called blow-for-blow where we take turns punching each other in the arm and whoever gave up first was the loser.
 
Adnams Drinker said:
Bloody hell, when I was about 6 or 7 around the mid-1970s, we played 'Kiss Chase' during playtime whereby if you got caught by a girl she was allowed to kiss you. That was pretty icky when you were a boy of that age and thought girls were horrid, smelly things. Dear God, that'd have the #MeToo brigade having an attack of the vapours nowadays, bleating about consent and potential sexual assault. Sadly, Kiss Chase wasn't still a thing by the time we were hormone-fuelled teenagers :D ...
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I actually forgot about that in the late 80s. Let alone the love letters getting passed across the class. How innocent things were back then compared to today and nothing horrid happened. The worst that happened was the teacher caught the letter and read it out to the class to find out who fancied who. Then it was a red neck for a week.

Imagine today? Sexual harrassment?
 
Adnams Drinker said:
Bloody hell, when I was about 6 or 7 around the mid-1970s, we played 'Kiss Chase' during playtime whereby if you got caught by a girl she was allowed to kiss you. That was pretty icky when you were a boy of that age and thought girls were horrid, smelly things. Dear God, that'd have the #MeToo brigade having an attack of the vapours nowadays, bleating about consent and potential sexual assault. Sadly, Kiss Chase wasn't still a thing by the time we were hormone-fuelled teenagers :D ...
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I'd forgotten about kiss chase :D
 
Sorry to hear OP, I've recently called a school over a teacher for the second time making reference to Trump as Hitler to a group of young and impressionable children who for the most part really look up to this teacher.

Having said that the world is starting to go a bit barmy. I can't see how this sort of thing will stick in Stoke to be honest. The teacher must be from out of the area
 
If it makes you feel better I got sent home from work today for wearing white shoes got told to go home and change them to black ones then go back.

I never signed anything to do with dress code. I just did I was told couldn’t be bothered to argue.

I’m 34 years old and I felt like I was back in school. Might go in tomorrow, tell them I’ve finished my homework but then the dog ate it.
 
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