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School daze
A British mum says she has been left
speechless after her children’s primary
school banned pupils from wearing
Hallowe’en costumes over fears they
could be found “culturally offensive.”
The annual Hallowe’en disco was also
cancelled because some families were
apparently offended by the witches and
wizards costumes on display.
When she commented on social media,
“Is this PC gone mad?” other mums
suggested she should take the
Hallowe’en disco elsewhere, while others
said that the offended parents could
simply take their children out of the
party altogether. But one commented
that it is, “very common in England for
some Christians to decry Hallowe’en,”
adding that she was surprised other
parents didn’t realise that.
Meanwhile, a London girls school has
handed out free alarm clocks to all its
700 students in an effort to stop mobile
phones interrupting their sleep. Heather
Hanbury, head teacher at Lady Eleanor
Holles school, advised parents to ban
phones, televisions and computers from
their children’s bedrooms because, she
says, mobiles are distracting them from
sleeping.
This is the same £20,000-a-year private
school which also recently ran
workshops for students on how to,
“rewire an anxious brain.”
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Council Capers
Council workers re-surfacing a road in
Manchester went around a parked car
leaving a chunk of the road unfinished.
Bemused residents of Thornton Road in
Rusholme were left scratching their
heads after the road works last month
and said the car, which has two flat tyres,
has been there for about six months.
The council said the car could not be
moved as it has insurance and an MOT.
A couple in Brighton have had their
doormat seized by the local council who
described it as a fire hazard. They
returned home one day to find the mat
gone and a threatening letter pushed
through their letter box advising them
that the mat had been placed in storage.