NZ Herald 21 July 2016 Family First Comment: This isn’t PC – this is STUPIDITY! “The latest example of a political correctness outbreak in Australian schools, which have banned hugging, singing Christmas carols, celebrating Australia Day, singing the word “black” in the nursery rhyme “baa baa black sheep”, and an exclusive girls school banning teachers from calling “ladies” or “women” in favour of “gender-neutral” terms.”
Clapping has been banned at a Sydney primary school which has introduced “silent cheering”, “pulling excited faces” and “punching the air” to respect students who are “sensitive to noise”.
The school now only allows its pupils “to conduct a silent cheer” when prompted by teachers and says the practice “reduces fidgeting”.
Elanora Heights Public School, which is on Sydney’s northern beaches, announced its new “silent cheer” policy in its latest school newsletter.
The latest example of a political correctness outbreak in Australian schools, which have banned hugging, singing Christmas carols, celebrating Australia Day and singing the word “black” in the nursery rhyme “baa baa black sheep”.
The ban on clapping at Elanora Heights Primary School emerged on the same day that an exclusive girls school banned teachers from calling “ladies” or “women” in favour of “gender-neutral” terms.
In its July 18 newsletter, the Elanora school has published an item under the headline “Did you know” that “our school has adopted silent cheers at assembly’s” (sic).
The ban follows a direction at exclusive Cheltenham Girls High School in northwest Sydney for teachers to avoid discrimination and support LGBTI students by avoiding the words “girls”, “ladies” or “women”.
Berkeley Wellness 18 July 2016 Family First Comment: Who said marijuana never killed anyone? “Since recreational use of marijuana was legalized in Washington state at the end of 2012….. The rate of fatal car crashes associated with marijuana use rose from 49 (8 percent) in 2013 to 106 (17 percent) in 2014.”
Since recreational use of marijuana was legalized in Washington state at the end of 2012, fatal motor vehicle crashes involving drivers under the influence have more than doubled. The rate of fatal car crashes associated with marijuana use rose from 49 (8 percent) in 2013 to 106 (17 percent) in 2014, according to the nonprofit AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety.
Some states have set legal driving limits for marijuana, based on blood levels of the psychoactive ingredient THC (similar in concept to a blood alcohol limit for driving). But there’s much debate about what a safe limit (if any) is, since marijuana affects users differently and since impairment levels do not necessarily correspond with blood THC levels.
