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| Thread ID: 66823 | 2006-03-08 03:03:00 | Baa Baa Rainbow Sheep ... | KiwiTT_NZ (233) | PC World Chat |
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| 436587 | 2006-03-08 23:33:00 | I understand UK libraries removed all Enid Blyton books years ago because stories about 'middle/upper class white children' were divisive. But all this sort of nonsense goes back years in UK, when one of my boys started school in Leicestershire in the 60s, we wondered why his reading was slipping backwards, he actually could read quite well before the age of five. The schools response was they didn't teach reading until the children were 6 years old, and they didn't want one child to be ahead of the others. Fortunately we moved to the country where the little local country school gave him some catchup tuition. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 436588 | 2006-03-09 00:06:00 | You have got to be joking. !!! :groan: :help: :annoyed: UK kindergartens bleat about nursery rhyme (www.nzherald.co.nz) because "the original words alienate and offend young black children." Hope MAPP stops it here. I believe that several hundred years ago when this ryhme was coined there was a tax on white sheep wool but non on black wool as it was considered unatractive so people figured this out and sold lots of black wool. Hence "one for my master, one for the dame and one for the little boy down the lane" |
paulw (1826) | ||
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