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PLEASE don't let children play "musical chairs"
This is from a report by the BBC. Oh the horror of it all!!!!!!! Please do it for the children!!!
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The traditional children's party game of musical chairs has been accused of breeding violence.
A booklet, launched by the Education Minister Margaret Hodge, says that nursery schools should consider playing a less aggressively competitive game - such as musical statues.
Towards a Non-Violent Society, the booklet produced by the Forum on Children and Violence, argues that musical chairs only rewards the "strongest and fastest".
The Department for Education has distanced itself from the publication, saying that it neither funds nor distributes the booklet - and it says there is no ban on the game being advocated.
Instead it says that the booklet "merely advises that teachers might think of less confrontational alternatives".
But the Conservative education spokeswoman, Theresa May, called the advice "political correctness gone mad".
"Children have played and enjoyed musical chairs for years," she said.
"This is yet more interference by a government, not content with just telling teachers what to do, they are now telling children what games they can and cannot play."
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[ 11-25-2002, 01:53 PM: Message edited by: nickg ]
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The traditional children's party game of musical chairs has been accused of breeding violence.
A booklet, launched by the Education Minister Margaret Hodge, says that nursery schools should consider playing a less aggressively competitive game - such as musical statues.
Towards a Non-Violent Society, the booklet produced by the Forum on Children and Violence, argues that musical chairs only rewards the "strongest and fastest".
The Department for Education has distanced itself from the publication, saying that it neither funds nor distributes the booklet - and it says there is no ban on the game being advocated.
Instead it says that the booklet "merely advises that teachers might think of less confrontational alternatives".
But the Conservative education spokeswoman, Theresa May, called the advice "political correctness gone mad".
"Children have played and enjoyed musical chairs for years," she said.
"This is yet more interference by a government, not content with just telling teachers what to do, they are now telling children what games they can and cannot play."
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[ 11-25-2002, 01:53 PM: Message edited by: nickg ]
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