This can't be true, surely?
Sounds like the school has ASD students who are particularly noise sensitive and they are doing a small thing to help them.I don't want to be a dick here because I have Autistic family and work with the same, but this does vary a lot, some ASD kids wander around clapping all day, some only react to entirely unexpected noise.
Had the school stated this was the reason, then maybe OK, but really they just wanted to accommodate a single teacher.SJW safe space terminology
Exactly, this is why decisions like this are dangerous,
If we accommodate an individual by changing the behaviour of the majority, we are distorting how things happen in real life and thus the development of any coping mechanisms.
This is then one step away from changing the behaviour of the majority because someone is "offended".
Behind issues like these is a cynical political theory that actively seeks to create victims out of these individuals - which then requires the State to protect them via legislation - this then becomes an over reach of State authority and a co-dependence on that State.
Nobody gains political power by staying out of your life, they do it by becoming a symbiotic part of it
It might superficially look to be progressive, but really idiocy like this is only empowering a mass of useful idiots and creating Generation Snowflake.
Yes indeed! here is the new sign for it!I meant the constitution thing.
What is so hard about not clapping at assembly?
Is it Ok to clap on Anzac Day, or in a quiet carriage on a suburban train?
Ridiculous analogy.
People do clap at assembly, it's one of the things you do at assemblies, they don't clap at those other events because it's not appropriate
Now hundreds of people have to stop what was an ordinary, regular, and expected event just because one person can't deal with their issue some other way.
It's like I stop saying something or stop doing a regular thing in a video because one viewer has a problem with it, so everyone else has to miss out.
Pah, Glasgow has been using "hen" for decades!
It's not a gender neutral term though...
In this particular situation, my guess is that the assembly hall is also a basket court/gym with hard surfaces and a painful sound resonance, so trying to keep the kids relatively quiet for the duration is in the majority's interest.
“Instead of clapping, the students are free to punch the air, pull excited faces and wriggle about on the spot."
Therein lies a fundamental issue...
Is school really preparing students for the outside world ...?
No one outside Australia will get that
No one outside Australia will get thatSome UK papers seem to be aware of the delightful Pauline Hanson. When she threatened to move to Britain in 2010 the Daily Telegraph mentioned that "in 1996 she notoriously asked a journalist to "please explain" when asked if she was xenophobic".
Therein lies a fundamental issue...
Is school really preparing students for the outside world ...?
In this particular situation, my guess is that the assembly hall is also a basket court/gym with hard surfaces and a painful sound resonance, so trying to keep the kids relatively quiet for the duration is in the majority's interest.
Rubbish, it's pandering to the one person who has an issue with it.
Applause happens at assemblies, has done since recorded history.
The idea of single sex schools is itself gender discrimination. What happens if one of their students is transgender and wants to be a boy at an all girls school? I don't think they'd allow that. Perhaps they should start accepting boys as well?
The idea of single sex schools is itself gender discrimination. What happens if one of their students is transgender and wants to be a boy at an all girls school? I don't think they'd allow that. Perhaps they should start accepting boys as well?
Interesting thought ... what would happen if an enrolled student were to have gender reassignment? Would they be expelled?