A Tweet about the restrictions placed on schoolchildren going on a field trip went viral this week, for good reason:
The demand for children to hand their vital life-saving medication to the teacher, rather than keeping it on them, was not the reason, Reader.
And predictably, the Tweeter faced claims of 'Fake!' snd 'Rabble rousing by the Right Wing' in response.
But why is no one questioning the overweening arrogance of any school behaving as if they have the right to demand what type of sandwiches children can take in their packed lunch, not even under the banner of ‘healthy eating’ this time, but to comply with the demands of a religious minority? Or, as is often the way, not due to any actusl demsands, but out of an assumption that this shows them to be respectable people who are 'protecting'minorities..
The school itself - Mere Green Primary School in Sutton Coldfield - hit the brakes and reversed as soon as the Tweet went viral, blaming 'human error', otherwise known as 'Ooops, we said the quiet part out loud'...
H/T:Carrie via Twitter
4 comments:
Please let the arsey Islamists protest outside the school about them allowing pork on premises. That might focus minds...
Beef? Well the Hindu are are peaceful minority. So bring all the beef you like.
My mum would ask what sarnies I'd like for my school day trips. Invariably egg would be my demand, not egg mayo - too posh for us, sliced hard boiled egg. Boy, did they stink out the coach!
I wonder what problem they have with coconut? I understand the problem with nuts generally as they can be highly dangerous to anyone with an allergy. Coconuts however are not nuts as such, they just have a misleading name. A coconut isn't exactly the kind of thing that you would have in your packing up anyway, unless it was a bounty.
Stonyground.
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