Saturday - April 07, 2012

BACK AGAIN WITH A HUGE BIT OF RAAAAAACIST NONSENSE

End of the day here and thought a serious racist thing would be just the ticket.

So here.

In today’s world, for some people, that is “racially negative.”

Baa Baa Little Sheep: How private school abandoned nursery rhyme’s lyrics for Easter show sparking political correctness accusations

Pupils at Park Hill School sang Baa Baa Little Sheep instead of the traditional version at their Easter concert
School said the song had been changed to teach children phonics and to fit in with the Easter theme
By CLAIRE ELLICOTT

Quite what the little boy who lives down the lane would make of it is open to conjecture.
But parents at one school made their feelings plain when they heard their children reciting ‘Baa Baa Little Sheep’.

They accused the ($4,287) £2,700-a-term Park Hill primary school of changing the words from ‘Baa Baa Black Sheep’ for the sake of political correctness.
The school, in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, insists this was not the reason, and that the change was merely a way of teaching children to read by adding different words. Adults who attended its Easter concert, however, were unconvinced.

Andrea Craig, a councillor whose son sang in the show, tweeted: ‘At my son’s Easter concert I saw a song called Baa Baa Little Sheep which I assumed was new. Not so – not allowed black. Really?’

She said most parents in the audience were concerned about the change of wording.

‘It’s good they want children to think about what different words mean. But this is one nursery rhyme I personally don’t think should be used because it could be so easily misconstrued as political correctness gone mad. They have got to be a bit smarter about it.’

The school uses the phonic learning system to teach children aged three to seven word meanings through well-known songs and rhymes. Its marketing manager Holly Christie said Baa Baa Black Sheep had been changed ‘because it fitted in with the theme of what we were doing. It was about baby sheep.

‘We have always had adjustments to Baa Baa Black Sheep just because the children like to sing different variations of that. It’s a way of teaching phonics so that children understand these words that they are using and then reading.’

Hang on BMEWS. That is not all of the article.  I wanted to separate the following lines to stand out a bit more. And I am certain you’d have picked up on it anyway but ,,,, what do make of the following?  A bit of early brainwashing?  Get em young conditioning?  Ya think?

This is far from the first time the rhyme has been amended. In 2006, children at two nurseries in Oxfordshire were taught ‘Baa Baa Rainbow Sheep’ to promote ‘equal opportunities’.

Some children in London have been taught ‘Baa Baa Green Sheep’.

And in 1999, Birmingham City Council said the rhyme should not be taught at all because it was racially negative.

So then. Question.  Not to get personal but, how did all the rest of you ever get educated and become literate without this?

I suppose then by the lights of the 1999 Birmingham City Council, I can no longer be referred to as my family’s Black Sheep?

Posted by peiper     on 04/07/2012 at 10:25 AM   
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