''baa baa, rainbow sheep'' now replaces ''black sheep''

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''baa baa, rainbow sheep'' now replaces ''black sheep''

Postby Class316 on Wed Mar 08, 2006 8:21 pm

TRADITIONAL nursery rhymes are being rewritten at nursery schools to avoid causing offence to children.

Instead of singing “Baa baa, black sheep” as generations of children have learnt to do, toddlers in Oxfordshire are being taught to sing “Baa baa, rainbow sheep”.

The move, which critics will seize on as an example of political correctness, was made after the nurseries decided to re-evaluate their approach to equal opportunities.

Stuart Chamberlain, manager of the Family Centre in Abingdon and the Sure Start centre in Sutton Courtenay, Oxfordshire, told the local Courier Journal newspaper: “We have taken the equal opportunities approach to everything we do.

“This is fairly standard across nurseries. We are following stringent equal opportunities rules. No one should feel pointed out because of their race, gender or anything else.”


http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0, ... 43,00.html

What the hell is a rainbow sheep anyway? This is an example of culture being torn apart :evil:
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