Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Fearful schools banning staff from touching children | News crumb | EducationGuardian.co.uk

Reason the world has gone mad number 259:

Fearful schools banning staff from touching children | News crumb | EducationGuardian.co.uk: "Researchers found current practice regarding touching to be confused, contradictory, based on staff rather than child protection, contrary to known best practice regarding child development, increasingly contested and not required by legislation.

Piper said: 'Touchy-feely seems to have given way to touchy-feary. Everyone expressed concerns about practice.'"


Why do people do this? When did they forget they were dealing with children and prioritise hyper-protective practices above meeting their needs? Education, education, education = litigation, litigation, litigation?!

3 comments:

  1. If you liked this, you'd enjoy KE312, it comes up in the first book, and I'm about to write about the topic in my first TMA!
    Tina

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  2. Don't try and tempt me with other courses, Milledge!!

    (and I'm going to shoehorn it into one of my E891 TMAs already!!!)

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