Nanny State gone too far (again)
Posted by: Mike-B on 26 February 2011
A teacher has been found guilty of unacceptable professional conduct by the General Teaching Council
Why - He was teaching a 16 year old student a very well known rhyme (in the electronics field) to help remember the sequence for the colour coding of resistors.
He did not complete the sequence omitting the “bad” words, but the student guessed them & it seems the teacher confirmed it. The incident came to light when the boy told another teacher.
The teacher in his defence said that he went into teaching after 30 years in engineering because he wanted to do some good for society, adding I am a professional, I'm caring & I like to teach children.
The GTC accepted he only communicated the words when pressed and was outside the formal classroom environment at the time - but "Notwithstanding that the mnemonic was not communicated in its entirety, to do so was entirely inappropriate and below the standard of conduct expected of a registered teacher"
The teacher will have a reprimand against his record for 2 years
How freaking stupid can this politically correct nanny state get .....
What kind of people – they are not teachers in my book - are so detached from the real word that they go telling tales on colleagues over real life rhyms that have been around the electronics world since Edison. Probably someone who never went through teenage years & who thinks 16 year olds are innocent creatures who should be protected from bad thoughts for fear they will self abuse.
A teacher has been found guilty of unacceptable professional conduct by the General Teaching Council
Why - He was teaching a 16 year old student a very well known rhyme (in the electronics field) to help remember the sequence for the colour coding of resistors.
He did not complete the sequence omitting the “bad” words, but the student guessed them & it seems the teacher confirmed it. The incident came to light when the boy told another teacher.
The teacher in his defence said that he went into teaching after 30 years in engineering because he wanted to do some good for society, adding I am a professional, I'm caring & I like to teach children.
The GTC accepted he only communicated the words when pressed and was outside the formal classroom environment at the time - but "Notwithstanding that the mnemonic was not communicated in its entirety, to do so was entirely inappropriate and below the standard of conduct expected of a registered teacher"
The teacher will have a reprimand against his record for 2 years
How freaking stupid can this politically correct nanny state get .....
What kind of people – they are not teachers in my book - are so detached from the real word that they go telling tales on colleagues over real life rhyms that have been around the electronics world since Edison. Probably someone who never went through teenage years & who thinks 16 year olds are innocent creatures who should be protected from bad thoughts for fear they will self abuse.
Black Brown Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Violet Gold White
This is what we are attempting to learn
Black, Brown, Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Violet, Grey, White
0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9.
There are quite a few mnemonic
Bright Boys Rave Over Young Girls But Veto Getting Wed.
Bad Beer Rots Our Young Guts But Vodka Goes Well
But he offending line was the more common - at least in my old school
Black Boys Ravish Only Young Girls But Violet Gives Willingly
Its not what the rhyme was, it was not that it was racist or not,
The question is how stupid is the politically correctness getting these days, how much further will the trend go, how much more bunny fluffy is the nanny state going to be
A secondary proposition is what kind of teachers are so detached from reality that they don't actually understand how kids think & what makes them enquiring worldly wise adults. And do we really want these teachers taking on the role & assuming they need to "protect" our kids from real life.
A little too serious for the Daily Mail - don't you think
Its not what the rhyme was, it was not that it was racist or not,
The question is how stupid is the politically correctness getting these days, how much further will the trend go, how much more bunny fluffy is the nanny state going to be
A secondary proposition is what kind of teachers are so detached from reality that they don't actually understand how kids think & what makes them enquiring worldly wise adults. And do we really want these teachers taking on the role & assuming they need to "protect" our kids from real life.
A little too serious for the Daily Mail - don't you think
More Daily Mail-style foaming at the mouth.
Mike, you can dress your argument up any way you want, but the mnemonic 'Black boys rape our young girls, but virgins go without' is racist, offensive, and wholly inappropriate in a classroom context. It's hardly 'Baa baa, black sheep', is it?
But I must post a not so funny something for the benefit of all real world humans about your reference to that "coloured" sheep nursery rhyme. Thanks for the feed.
'Baa Baa Black Sheep' is thought to be racially dubious in PC circles.
Various writings on it exist but it eventually reached the peak of lunacy when nurseries in Oxfordshire (my local area) altered it to "Baa Baa Rainbow Sheep"
So what do we get out of this ?? do kids think sheep are rainbow coloured ??? do we get kids believing rainbow sheep are real & that pink, blue, red sweaters come from sheep of that colour ??
Sorry to say YES THEY DO - a young relation came home in floods of tears because she had the mickey taken out her for believing that wool came from sheep of many colours. She was at one of those nurseries & had in mind her own painted pictures of rainbow coloured sheep.
I took her & her mum to a friends farm, were she got to see white brown & black(ish) sheep, the difference between boy & girl sheep, ride a horse, fall in a pile of dung, see pigs doing what pigs do & jump off a 10 foot straw stack. Real education.
And you can't pretend that either ' Black Boys Ravish Only Young Girls But Violet Gives Willingly' or 'Black boys rape our young girls, but virgins go without' aren't offensive, can you? Different standards apply in different situations. If you're a professional you have to accept that and act accordingly.
A teacher has been found guilty of unacceptable professional conduct by the General Teaching Council
Why - He was teaching a 16 year old student a very well known rhyme (in the electronics field) to help remember the sequence for the colour coding of resistors.
He did not complete the sequence omitting the “bad” words, but the student guessed them & it seems the teacher confirmed it. The incident came to light when the boy told another teacher.
The teacher in his defence said that he went into teaching after 30 years in engineering because he wanted to do some good for society, adding I am a professional, I'm caring & I like to teach children.
The GTC accepted he only communicated the words when pressed and was outside the formal classroom environment at the time - but "Notwithstanding that the mnemonic was not communicated in its entirety, to do so was entirely inappropriate and below the standard of conduct expected of a registered teacher"
The teacher will have a reprimand against his record for 2 years
How freaking stupid can this politically correct nanny state get .....
What kind of people – they are not teachers in my book - are so detached from the real word that they go telling tales on colleagues over real life rhyms that have been around the electronics world since Edison. Probably someone who never went through teenage years & who thinks 16 year olds are innocent creatures who should be protected from bad thoughts for fear they will self abuse.
Many others around the county & some around the country also did something to address the black word. My relation got her coloured sheep thing from the local state junior school
The question is how stupid is the politically correctness getting these days, ...
If it is racist then it seems reasonable to censure it.
If it is not - all a lot of fuss about nothing.
It is racist.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...color_code_mnemonics
People only seem to be offended by the word black, nothing to do with young girls then?
I agree, a better way of putting it would of been more acceptable.
The bit about raping young girls is just as offensive - and way out of place in the context of working with young people. I assumed that went without saying.
Mike,
It still seems a fairly low level local matter, so perhaps a nanny state isn't really what we're faced with - just a daft decision made by people who're anxious not to give offense and aren't thinking very clearly.
It used to be called humour because, the world over, it made us laugh. Sometimes even when we were on the butt end.
We don't seem to laugh so much these days.
Cheers
Don
Do you think asserting that black boys rape young girls is 'taking the piss out of each other'? Was there ever a time when that would have struck you as humorous?
Or to put it another way, back in those halcyon days before we all forgot how to enjoy ourselves, were there no limits on what it was and was not OK for a teacher to say in a classroom?
The teacher in his defence said that he went into teaching after 30 years in engineering...
To be fair most people who have worked in engineering for that length of time probably are (unconsciously, perhaps) racist and sexist.
However, if he used the Black boys etc. then that was a serious lapse of judgement. Similarly, if he spoke of raping girls, that too was poor judgement.
I assume the student was Caucasian? Would it have been appropriate to use the mnemonic with a black student; or an adolescent girl?
While most people are spending their time worrying about how others perceive them, the government is having a good laugh at how successful their brainwashing has been.
" if I said "this black bloke came up to me" a dozen people will immediately jump on me and call me racist"
I have worked in some very right on voluntary sector organisations, but I have never met anyone who would do this.
"the government is having a good laugh at how successful their brainwashing has been."
What a bizarre fantasy. Have you actually persuaded yourself this might be true?
Do you think asserting that black boys rape young girls is 'taking the piss out of each other'? Was there ever a time when that would have struck you as humorous?
Or to put it another way, back in those halcyon days before we all forgot how to enjoy ourselves, were there no limits on what it was and was not OK for a teacher to say in a classroom?
Cheers
Don