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Urban myths
There are sometimes news items about teachers being told not to say 'blackboard' or sing 'ba ba black sheep' I think theyare urban myths. Has anyone been giveninstructions about these things. If so where etc?
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yeah but all that's anecdotal, who exactly told anyone to say this? most things like this are made up by ridiculous right wing newspapers to cause racial disharmony. no-one cares if you say baa baa black sheep except the Daily Mail who doubtless made the (rainbow sheep/ bad sheep) up in the first place, so just carry on doing it and don't play their games.
I want to write a complaint to this 'PC Brigade' I keep hearing about. Where are they based? Do they have proper offices or a Portakabin in a car park somewhere? The public needs to know!
As "black" is not actually an insulting word, I would strongly expect that such incidences as the Baa Baa Black Sheep one are extremely rare, if not non-existent. I suspect that these are just non-stories, invented on a slow news day, that have been blown up out of all proportion by the right-wing tabloids to feed the prejudices of the more compliantly 'Angry of Tunbridge Wells' types among their readership.
Coming soon to a Daily Mail near you - local authorities ban children from singing Oranges and Lemons for fear it may upset David Dickinson, Judith Chalmers and Des O'Connor.
As "black" is not actually an insulting word, I would strongly expect that such incidences as the Baa Baa Black Sheep one are extremely rare, if not non-existent. I suspect that these are just non-stories, invented on a slow news day, that have been blown up out of all proportion by the right-wing tabloids to feed the prejudices of the more compliantly 'Angry of Tunbridge Wells' types among their readership.
Coming soon to a Daily Mail near you - local authorities ban children from singing Oranges and Lemons for fear it may upset David Dickinson, Judith Chalmers and Des O'Connor.
Check
http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question20 9587.html
It's completely made up, as are 99% of similar stories.
http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question20 9587.html
It's completely made up, as are 99% of similar stories.
Back in the late 1980s, when I was teaching, I attended a course on 'racial awareness', organised by Sheffield L.E.A.. One of the things we were told was that we should refer to all 'non-caucasian' people as 'black'. This, we were told, included everyone with family roots in Asia, including members of the Chinese community.
The following day I mentioned this to one of my pupils, who was the daughter of the proprietors of our local Chinese takeaway. What she said in reply is unfit to be repeated on AB. It would also normally have been totally inappropriate in my classrooom but, since it expressed my own feelings precisely, I was hardly in a position to complain!
About the same time, I knew a probation officer. He told me that there were both old and modern parts to the building in which he worked. The older part had training rooms equipped with blackboards which had been renamed 'chalkboards'. The newer part had whiteboards which had been renamed 'drywipe boards'. Strangely, though, we never received these instructions in schools.
Helliebob's husband shouldn't be surprised to be told to mark in green. This has been standard practice in most teacher training establishments for over 30 years and there are sound psychological reasons for it. Unfortunately, by the time that anyone gets to be head of a department (and therefore responsible for ordering stationery), they've forgotten all the theory and they continue to order supplies of red pens because that's what their predecessors did!
Chris
The following day I mentioned this to one of my pupils, who was the daughter of the proprietors of our local Chinese takeaway. What she said in reply is unfit to be repeated on AB. It would also normally have been totally inappropriate in my classrooom but, since it expressed my own feelings precisely, I was hardly in a position to complain!
About the same time, I knew a probation officer. He told me that there were both old and modern parts to the building in which he worked. The older part had training rooms equipped with blackboards which had been renamed 'chalkboards'. The newer part had whiteboards which had been renamed 'drywipe boards'. Strangely, though, we never received these instructions in schools.
Helliebob's husband shouldn't be surprised to be told to mark in green. This has been standard practice in most teacher training establishments for over 30 years and there are sound psychological reasons for it. Unfortunately, by the time that anyone gets to be head of a department (and therefore responsible for ordering stationery), they've forgotten all the theory and they continue to order supplies of red pens because that's what their predecessors did!
Chris
I have never been given these instructions and we sing baa baa black sheep in nursery quite often.
However we have been "officially" told to use proper anatomical words for parts of the body... and are supposed to use the proper word after they have used a common word.... its supposed to stop any embarassment and giggling when the proper words are used later in school for sex education purposes!
The next generation may well grow up calling each other penisheads!
;)
