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January 30, 2006

School Forbids Raising Your Hand

Posted by Dave Blount at January 30, 2006 8:47 PM

If there's one thing that will make you almost as terrified for the future as Iran developing nuclear weapons, it's got to be the pervasiveness of moonbattery in education, from higher ed all the way down to grammar school, where the pupils of one London school are now banned from raising their hands in class.

The principal explains that it's often the same children who raise their hands. When teachers try to involve the ones who don't raise their hands by calling on them instead, the tots experience the dreaded sensation of victimization. And so:

To spare embarrassment of the students who do not know the answer, the school has incorporated a "phone a friend" system, allowing one child to nominate another to take the question instead.

What an ingenious concept. I can just picture the characters in the Guinness commercials shouting "brilliant!"

Hat tip: William