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INDIAN TEACHERS BANNED FROM KNITTING
Naples Daily News ^
| 12/10/2003
| Babu Lal Sharma (AP Writer)
Posted on 12/10/2003 5:57:54 AM PST by JesseHousman
LUCKNOW, India (AP) -- Teachers in India's most populous state have been told to stop knitting in classrooms and pay more attention to their students.
"They are often more interested in knitting than in teaching," Neera Yadav, the principal secretary of education for Uttar Pradesh, told The Associated Press in the state capital Lucknow on Wednesday. "All the officials - including teachers and clerks - in the primary and secondary sections have been banned from knitting on school premises during teaching hours."
Complaints from parent groups prompted the ban, which went into effect Nov. 26.
Teachers, however, are fighting back.
"People concentrate better when they knit," argued Panchanan Rai, a teachers' representative in the state legislature.
"What's wrong if they sit in the staff room and knit during free periods?" asked R.P. Mishra, a spokesman for the Uttar Pradesh Secondary Education Teachers' Association, calling the ban "dictatorial."
Mishra said the teachers have threatened to strike for the right to knit, but the government has not responded.
Copyright 2003 Associated Press. All rights reserved.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: india; knitting; teachers
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"They are often more interested in knitting than in teaching,"American children would be better off if their government school teachers would spend more time knitting and less in teaching them the leftist line and about how great is the homosexual lifestyle.
To: JesseHousman
LOL! I wonder what they're knitting, and what the piecework rates are, vs. the government teacher's salary :-).
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posted on
12/10/2003 6:09:24 AM PST
by
Tax-chick
(It's hard to see the rainbow through glasses dark as these.)
To: JesseHousman; martin_fierro
This is a needles waste of time.
To: JesseHousman
Darn!
To: JesseHousman
Bunch of knitwits.
To: JesseHousman
The sad part is, the students are still learning more than their counterparts in the "enlightened" American public schools.
To: JesseHousman
I thought this was about INDIANA, not India! LOL!
(Getting more coffee)
To: JesseHousman
Sew?
To: JesseHousman
They should say they're sari.
To: JesseHousman
Humph, can't say, "only in America" anymore.
To: Charles Henrickson
It's a stretch -- This is becoming a pattern.
To: Charles Henrickson; JesseHousman
This is so crewel
To: JesseHousman
the teachers have threatened to strike for the right to knit They're yarning to be free.
To: stainlessbanner
Stop it! You've got me in stitches!
To: JesseHousman
Well, there are worse places to knit than the classroom.
Recently, a highway patrolman on a freeway came up behind a car which was being driven erraticly at 70 mph. He noticed the woman behind the wheel was alternately looking down, then up through her windshield, then down again.
The patrolman turned on his blue lights, but the woman took no heed. He pulled up along side her, still going 70 mph, and saw to his amazement that she was knitting as she sped down the road. He yelled at her to get her attention: "Pull over!"
"No," she responded, "it's a cardigan!"
To: stainlessbanner
This is so crewel. Crochet!
To: JesseHousman
Learn to crochet?
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posted on
12/10/2003 6:22:02 AM PST
by
Just another Joe
(FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
To: JesseHousman
Sounds like the parents groups are just knit-picking to me...
To: JesseHousman
"Students, take out your textile books--oops! text books. . . ."
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posted on
12/10/2003 6:26:10 AM PST
by
Charles Henrickson
(A tagline is a terrible thing to waste.)
To: stainlessbanner
the teachers have threatened to strike for the right to knit A strike is looming.
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posted on
12/10/2003 6:27:40 AM PST
by
Charles Henrickson
(A tagline is a terrible thing to waste.)
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