TEACHERS are being urged to give children safety messages after reading them fairytales warning not to copy characters such as Little Red Riding Hood, Goldilocks and Hansel and Gretel.Oh, why not, I say. You've already scared the living daylights out of them with climate change crap.
A new child protection curriculum being implemented by the Education Department also requires teachers to refer to children's "sexual parts" and use their correct anatomical names with children as young as three.
Child development experts have backed the measures, but critics believe they are an example of political correctness overkill that could turn children into "little nervous wrecks".
I'd always thought that Hansel and Gretel was a cautionary tale about not going where you shouldn't.
1 comment:
Just wrap them in cotton wool, keep them in a plastic bubble and let them out when they’re 18. It seems the only way to keep the busybody do-gooders at bay.
SandiM
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