[QUOTE=Fellbeast;668274]The not being able to use the showers is surely a covid measure? We're no longer able to use the showers at my gym either.
Afraid not. He's in his third year and its been like it since he started!
[QUOTE=Fellbeast;668274]The not being able to use the showers is surely a covid measure? We're no longer able to use the showers at my gym either.
Afraid not. He's in his third year and its been like it since he started!
Visibility good except in Hill Fog
I just googled the guide lines. The is no specific rule set for schools on showering after PE and sport and schools are asked to come up with their own policies. Given the responsibilities that entails, I imagine some schools feel obliged to just not do it. Have a look at NSPCC best practice factsheet on it ->https://www.icmec.org/wp-content/upl...ging-rooms.pdf
I don't necessarily think it will be imbalanced... more incompetent... i see my nephew who is shooting ahead in academic terms, and it's mainly because his parents spent time teaching with him well before he even started school (i'm well aware that not all kids are fortunate enough to have parents like that).
My nephew could throw three darts in a board and add them up no problem, can recite his times tables, and can count in Spanish. Yet when i ask him what maths/numbers work he's doing with his class, it appears they are mostly still struggling with the "two times table".
As i mention above, this is not always the school's fault... but you only have to look at the average academic levels of people coming out of secondary school/college/university (i see CV's of graduates who can't even spell).
With all that in mind, there are obviously problems in the entire national curriculum, and i would rather this was given a higher priority than perhaps more "complex" issues such as homosexuality, gender issues, etc. And it's quite clear that a cover-all policy that when someone reaches 13 years old they should be taught these issues, is completely wrong. Unfortunately parents need to start taking some responsibility for the social (and academic) education of their offspring. My nephew is already aware that sometimes "boys want to marry boys" and that one of his friends has "two mummy's" rather than a mum and dad.
I do also sympathise with the worries expressed by Llani Boy... whilst everyone should be free to live as they like, without prejudice, i'd be slightly worried that schools may be pressing these kind of lifestyles as "normal" when rightly or wrongly they are still very much a minority. Kids should be made aware they exist, and leave it at that.
Last edited by Travs; 22-10-2020 at 12:44 PM.
Those people are normal. They might be in the minority, but they're not abnormal. I think it's absolutely normal to expect X% of a group of people to be, for example, homosexual or bisexual. Almost certainly a considerable majority will be heterosexual, but that doesn't render the minority not normal.
Geoff Clarke
Hate to break it to you Travs, but in some woke-Taliban minds Maths and Science are considered inherently racist now.
Regarding your latter point, I think teaching tolerance of different life-styles and choices is important. Sadly, it's not tolerance that's often promoted but rather coerced acceptance (i.e. forced approval). Coerced in the sense that whatever stands in its way appears not as mere obstacle, but as a hateful enemy (and ironically, intolerable).
Am Yisrael Chai
I think it's quite clear from my post that I am referring to "normal" as in a common form of lifestyle in the eyes of a child, where someone has a "mummy" and a "daddy".
I shouldn't really feel the need to explain that I clearly wasn't calling anybody abnormal, as the other paragraphs in my post would back up...