An Observer reporter is horrified at the new Education Secretary’s plea for schools to stop ‘wrapping children in cotton wool’.
[He] seeks a return to rosy-cheeked Baden-Powell adventurism when grazed knees were as much a part of school uniform as Clarks Commandos. … Surely, one of the more civilising changes in education since we were at school, is that nippers are no longer yomped across sodden moorland by perverted PE instructors threatening to make men of us, turning every cross-country run into a re-enactment of the march on Port Stanley.
…In abstract, it all sounds terrifically bracing, in that buttoned-up ‘beating never did me any harm, thank you very much’ sort of way’.
I completely share the reporter’s point of view. Well, beating has really never done me any harm (in fact, I actively pursue it!), but grazed knees are really not my kink, nor is running around sodden moorland. PE in the wet and cold outdoors will never ever become a part of my school scenes.
And I’d rather nobody made a man of me, thanks.
Haron, the thought of someone making a man of you is horrifying, I doubt if Able would be to happy either. 😉
Warm hugs,
Paul.
I share his view of PE teachers, it must take a certain type to become one of those, even today. Other than that, he is indeed talking Balls.
So far as grazed knees go Haron, they can be picked up from too much kneeling, which is a whole different kink.
‘Perverted PE teachers’ is indeed a truly perfect tautology…
Or perhaps Gerrard, Richard F. and his ways have been a rather bad influence on you……(just teasing)
Rob, no! That’s not what I meant at all. Damn, I hadn’t exactly realised what I said till you pointed it out; I am not here to lower the tone, certainly not intentionally. I am usually pretty good at getting myself into trouble without anyone else’s help. Thanks.
I know you are teasing!
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ROFL I have to confess that I hadn’t read Gerrard’s comment as being *quite* as (accidentally) suggestive as it now appears having seem the subsequent comments 😉
Reminds me of cross-country. *Shudder*