I recently took inventory of childhood pursuits schools have banned like tag, touch football, snowball fights, cartwheels, running, skipping. A lot of school recesses now resemble yard time at federal penitentiaries.
But, when you think you’ve heard it all, along comes news from Down Under that reaches an all-new low.
So it is, our Nanny State Ninny Award for the month of July goes to Elanora Heights Public School in Sydney where the edu-crats have banned clapping.
They say the no-clapping rule was introduced to respect students who are “sensitive to noise.” Only “silent cheering” is allowed, like fist-pumps, “pulling excited faces” or wriggling on the spot.
You may be asking, how many children at Elanora Heights suffer from noise anxiety?
Zero. The school was caught lying. The no-clapping rule wasn’t to protect noise-sensitive students but rather, to minimize discomfort for ONE teacher with a hearing disability.
Apparently asking one teacher to use earplugs or noise-cancelling headphones was too logical so instead, the school flips upside-down to accommodate a single person because she’s allergic to noise.
Please pass the bubble wrap to protect our children.
Our politicians and law makers & teachers are becoming whimps!
It has to be millions per year!!!
Thanks, John
Perhaps they should considered what several LGBQ, women’s groups (or is that womyn groups), and Politically Correct SJW groups, and some student unions espouse, which is showing approval with “jazz hands” instead of clapping, applause, or the whacking together of two hands to make noises of approval. Maybe they should push how many Eastern European countries respond to accomplishment by whistling?
Sounds (quietly) to me that someone is being paid all to much to come up with stupidity such as this.
She could also consider getting a position reaching deaf students.
There are a lot of things should could do short of forcing kids to not BE kids.
Just another sleazy liberal educated twerp.
Dump Justin bin Trudeau
Some people will blow it all out of proportion and describe it as an attack on human rights, or the rights of the child, or whatever.
The teacher is loosing her hearing and so she asked that loud clapping be forbidden.
That was in Australia.
In Canada, The Rebel takes it up as if it is some major issue.
Why should a Principal be able to cancel something so normal as clapping approval without being challenged? The parents need to have a say in how the schools are operating, but the marxists think that they should be able to dictate any whim that they wish, just because someone may have needs that the majority don’t. The reason is because they think they own our children, and want to do what Hitler did by brainwashing the youth to conform to his ideals, so that they are easier to control. The state has no business undermining parental authority. Why should the majority always have to bow down to this insanity? Parents need to pull their kids out of these insane institutional brainwashing facilities, that have been taken over by the unions and fanatical groups with a marxist agenda, or society is doomed!
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One person forcing her requirements upon the masses – another example of people control and how it takes over.
Smells like MOAR MARXISM to me.