When Is This Going To Stop

[dannyk13]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10216119/Church-England-school-CANCELS-Winston-Churchill-JK-Rowling.html?ito=push-notification&ci=aOIGvwrbYq&cri=nBKnQvknr1&si=45217445&xi=8f9ab4e7-9c53-4069-9582-959d7a6a4f5b&ai=10216119

[naomi24]

//My school 40 years ago had house names and I never saw the point of them. //

Did you not have competition between 'houses', Gromit. Sports, theatrical efforts, writing, etc?

Erasing history continues.

[AuntPG]

Naomi quote: //Schools having 'House Names' ( when clearly they are not boarding schools therefore dont have 'houses'). ////

// Bizarre! Even Hogwarts has 'houses'!//

Because its a fictitious Boarding School -I can't recall all the little darlings getting picked up by their parents after school lol!

[bednobs]

grumpy, you can be less grumpy now:
https://fundraising.co.uk/2021/05/26/marcus-rashford-is-the-youngest-person-to-lead-the-sunday-times-giving-list/

[dannyk13]

My Grammar school had houses, Angles, Saxons, Jutes & Celts.Sports days were always competitions between the houses.

[Gromit]

When is it going to stop?
Never. The Church of England can call its houses whatever it likes, and does not have to consult Daily Mail readers.
Rowling and Rashford are equally undeserving of the honour.

[bednobs]

History is not being erased. The person/people still did the thing that they did to make them worthy of history noting them. Not being named as house mascot at one school doesnt change that.

[Gromit]

// Did you not have competition between 'houses? //

Nope.

[AuntPG]

Gromit really? That was the whole point of them in state schools was not it?

[pixie374]

My children's schools all had Houses. They were used for Sports Days, merits, etc. for competitions. One school I went to did too, although they had boarders as well.

[pixie374]

But agree, bednobs, nobody can erase history- and assuming it's all accurately recorded in the first place. We do change who we celebrate, that's all.

[bednobs]

our school has colours (red, yellow, green, blue) much less frothing from parents there!
they get points ans can win the right to have a dress down day once a term

[pixie374]

Ours have colours and names of well-known local people.

[CrapAtCryptics]

I`m to busy burning books ask me later

[AuntPG]

I've just looked back at one of my old schools and they've done away with house names and just have numbers now, with the house colour. maybe time to do that then everyone will be happy.

[pixie374]

Everyone would want to be number 1, that won't work :-)

[rowanwitch]

My old school Blake, ( weird white male poet)
Dickens, Hampden (something to do with the civil war I think). Newton, Scott, and Wilberforce, soon after I left they switched to colours. Even back in the 70s we argued for female representation. Isaac Newton was considered too important to change to Nightingale, no others were even considered.

[jno]

lol pixie.

My school never had houses. jno jnr's did, and for reasons I won't go into, it did him some harm.

But Rashford and Seacole are both people I would be happy for a child to admire.

[jno]

rowan, that sounds like pretty much the roster of people on bank notes, doesn't it.

[Gromit]

My Primary school near Manchester had colours. But all the Manchester fans hated being Blue, and all the City fans didn’t want to be in Red.

[Barsel]

APG //I've just looked back at one of my old schools and they've done away with house names//
Sounds like a sensible thing to do.