"But we think if she wears it, it is going to be dangerous not only to herself but to others."
Doesn't look dangerous to me.
"But we think if she wears it, it is going to be dangerous not only to herself but to others."
Doesn't look dangerous to me.
I was just reading Rod Liddle’s take in the Times:
“Kioni’s school has cited health and safety as the reason for not allowing her to wear her daft ring. Here’s my suspicion: the school is being disingenuous. The real question is why it felt the need to be so.
“There was another little girl who was in the news this week, an even younger child. Alisha is eight years old and goes to school in Hartlepool but is being kept at home because the school won’t let her attend while wearing her earrings. Her mum was most indignant; she knew her rights.
“It may be that one day very soon Alisha will have a snake tattoo emerging from her buttocks and also a belly bar, who knows, maybe before the age of nine, with mum’s blessing. But again the school objected to the earrings on the grounds of – yes, health and safety.
“Even though the kid might have compromised and taken the earrings off when she went out to play, I think the school objected to the earrings primarily because they are repulsive on a child that young and are, on a deeper level, a sort of signifier for lots of ghastly things to come. In a way, earrings worn by an eight-year-old imply the opposite commitment to the one made by Kioni: they’re impurity earrings.
“I reckon the school is right to object broadly on those grounds, or more crucially simply because earrings are against its rules – but it wouldn’t dare say that, would it?
“Any more than Kioni’s school would say – look, first, we don’t allow jewellery of any kind, those are the rules, so bloody well abide by them, and second, we think the purity ring is a fatuous and deluded concept, so wear it at home if you must.
“Nope, instead it resorts to what has become the last refuge of officialdom – health and safety. The only thing in this country which has force any more, no matter how utterly spuriously so.
“Both schools should have told the parents that the rules were absolutely straightforward and were to be abided by without negotiation.
“But that sort of discipline has disappeared and we have in its place a new kind, based upon nonsense.
It’s a danger? Caught during PE? What are they fooling with in those classes?
When I worked in a hospital it was absolute no dangly earrings or necklaces - it was easy to get caught or a confused patient could snatch your ear.
And my husband worked with heavy machinery and never wore his wedding ring at work. But what are they working with in “Design and Technology”? And isn’t it part of a lesson then, to stop and remove your jewelry beforehand?
> But we think if she wears it, it is going to be dangerous not only to herself but to others.”
But we all know that’s not the real agenda. The real agenda is to undermine that which is good, so that evil can take its place. It has nothing to do with “safety”, even tho’ that is a “motherhood” argument that cannot be argued against.
God for her! You go, girl! I realize that’s a difficult thing to do in the UK. STAND YOUR GROUND! Awesome!
When I attended a Christian church in the UK, I was labeled by my friends, acquaintances, and co-workers as being ‘happy clappy’. That’s a very derogatory name for Christians.....meaning we are ALL charismatics.
While at least it is a blanket policy, but i think the attitude of most public schools in the west is that “repressing” their practices of free sex is what they consider most dangerous. Or that abstinence has really no place in stopping unplanned pregnancies - but “planned” parenthood (infanticide) does!
What a pretty little girl. I wish her well.
So in this school system the girls are not allowed to wear any rings, necklaces, earrings, etc.? I can’t believe they actually get away with enforcing a rule like that. What is the danger of wearing a ring? Or a necklace? Or earrings?
Wow - you sure would not get away with that in Canada. Most of our kids have so many nuts, bolts, screws, and assorted hardware on their faces, ears, assorted body parts, I can’t image them even suggesting such a thing.
There, problem solved.
I wonder if the teachers have to remove their rings and other shiny, dangling trinkets.
It seems as if learning is a dangerous occupation, teaching would be dangerous as well.