Conkers banned in school, We are breeding a Nation of Snowflake Cissies FFS !

Ish66

My Son's School has banned conkers because they might shatter and damage our darling's eyes ! This **** has gone far enough.

Where does it end ?, Fizzy drinks could explode ? Shoe Laces ? Could cause a trip ? Sharp Pencils ?

It's gone totally stupid now.

SupplyandDemandZone

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058217822/conkers-banned-in-school-we-are-breeding-a-nation-of-snowflake-cissies-ffs

It's been stupid for a long time OP.

RonanG86

Gonna guess it's less about "snowflakes" and "sissies" as it is about compo and insurance to be honest.

Maybe if people didn't look for the biggest payout they could get when they scrape their knee, the school mightn't feel the need to do this.

airy fairy

Agree....

They were banned a good few years ago from my lads school after he rocked up with a bucketload of prepped conkers for all in the class

not running in the yard is another mental one.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058217822/conkers-banned-in-school-we-are-breeding-a-nation-of-snowflake-cissies-ffs

Conkers were banned 35 years ago too, when I was in school

oookkkaaayyy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058217822/conkers-banned-in-school-we-are-breeding-a-nation-of-snowflake-cissies-ffs

The government wants us to raise a generation of pussies.

TheValeyard

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118162595#Comment_118162595

Yeah I remember them banned a long, long time ago when I was in school.

Bleating Lamb

My kids are in a rural NS and playing Conker fights on the yard is a big thing during Autumn,children just told not to tamper with the ‘natural’ state of conkers.

Back in the day lads were known to paint them with nail varnish to harden them up:)

It’s a chance for them to play a normal fun activity which their parents partook in.Thankfully our schools teachers are sensible people.

L1011

They were banned in my school nearly 30 years ago.

Red Alone

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Hippodrome Song Owl

Banned 30 years ago for me. As was running. Nothing new. I think it's an awful shame, but I don't blame schools given the compo culture and high insurance costs in this country.

phonypony

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058217822/conkers-banned-in-school-we-are-breeding-a-nation-of-snowflake-cissies-ffs

If your son's eye was taken out by a conker in his classroom, what would your course of action be?

Pherekydes

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118162787#Comment_118162787

Has this misfortune ever been recorded?

whisky_galore

Playing conkers?

The 1930s are looking for their playground game back.

Ish66

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118162787#Comment_118162787

If If If If, What if it happened on the way home away from school property ? Sue who ? There is a cohort of people out there who, Before they ring an Ambulance, They call their solicitor $$$.

These are the very same people who call Joe about their increase in Insurance premiums on their car,house etc. Lads, You can't have it both ways ?

phonypony

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118162813#Comment_118162813

Maybe it has, maybe it hasn't. But when you're an entity open to litigation, are you going to wait for a child to lose his eye and be sued? Or are you going to take proactive action to prevent it?

Red Alone

And if a kid blew some paper out of a pen refill what would your course of action be?

Or if they're playing football in PE and one kid shoves the other into the wall while theyre chasing the same ball and its intentional but the teacher isn't clued in enough to have taken any notice.

What then?

Penn

They banned conkers when I was a lad too. But by then we'd moved on to more modern games, like fighting the Ballydowse boys for the buttons from their shirts.

phonypony

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118162830#Comment_118162830

Well you haven't given any consequences to those actions, so I can only guess nothing happened....

phonypony

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118162825#Comment_118162825

That's my point, people will sue, so the school is protecting itself. Away from school property, not their problem.

Gregor Samsa

Running in the yard was banned in the primary school I went to 40 years ago. Not sure if conkers were banned, but that game where two people throw a coin to see which one can get it to land closest to the wall was outlawed. But I think that was because it was winner takes all, and therefore similar to gambling.

Given that they allowed teachers to punch children in the chest, hang them by their ankles out the second story window - and in one case strip a ten-year-old child down to his underwear, throw his clothes out the window and make the almost naked child go down and get them with the whole school watching - I’m not sure why they banned the running because child safety clearly was not a priority.

Tork

They banned skipping ropes in my school 30 years ago. As far as I can remember, some girl got her legs badly cut when she got caught up in one of those heavier ropes that you'd have two kids turning. I don't remember running being banned but I'm pretty sure we weren't allowed to play with tennis balls in the yard. Conkers weren't really a thing where I grew up but I can understand why they'd be banned. My dad was pretty easygoing when it came to any games that came into our house, except for one type. Things like catapults, bows and arrows and toy guns that propelled things out of them were banned. Some lad in his class had lost an eye when some kid's game went wrong and that made a huge impression on him.

Tork

Given that they allowed teachers to punch children in the chest, hang them by their ankles out the second story window 

Was your school run by the mafia, Gregor?

silliussoddius

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118162595#Comment_118162595

I don’t remember them being banned but I remember people using them not for conkering but to whack people with.

Jim2007

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058217822/conkers-banned-in-school-we-are-breeding-a-nation-of-snowflake-cissies-ffs

What you have is a nation of litigants. Next time you are at the school look around at the other parents, they are the people who will happily take the school/ insurance for every cent they can at every opportunity, they are the people you need to rant at.

Jim2007

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118162606#Comment_118162606

No you do. Politicians do what get them elected, if don’t object loudly and clearly that you want the crazy compensation payments to stop that is what you end up with.

Strumms

Next they’ll be having kids wearing slip on shoes as a compulsory uniform item in case some kid tried to hang themselves or hang a classmate with their fûcking laces...

I don’t think I’ve ever heard of a kid being seriously injured to the point of hospitalization or to the point of visiting a morgue due to conker usage, or being a victim of a conker attack.

Burt Renaults

They banned it in my primary school in 1989, long before middle-aged bores discovered the term 'snowflake'.

Ash.J.Williams

They should ban suing schools

whisky_galore

Maybe if a not insignificant number of the population weren't money grabbing opportunistic cnuts we wouldn't be where we are now.

KildareP

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058217822/conkers-banned-in-school-we-are-breeding-a-nation-of-snowflake-cissies-ffs

Ask your Board of Management. There's normally two parents and two teacher reps on it.

Chances are they either have a pending case or their insurers are handling a case for another school and have now excluded them cover.

Running was banned in my primary school because of a case taken as a result of injury.

Can't blame the school for that.

Gregor Samsa

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118163438#Comment_118163438

At least with the mafia, you can pay them off to leave you alone. I shudder to think what you would have had to do to placate the Christian Brothers.

whisky_galore

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118163808#Comment_118163808

A blow job.

Gregor Samsa

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118163848#Comment_118163848

Yeah, I mean that’s the kind of thing I was implying in my post. But thanks for making it obvious to those that might have missed the subtlety.

vriesmays

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058217822/conkers-banned-in-school-we-are-breeding-a-nation-of-snowflake-cissies-ffs

That's because most teachers are stupid now. Back in our parents' schooldays the most academically-gifted went into teaching. Now the opportunities for women have expanded and the brightest are going into medicine or accounting not teaching.

Jim2007

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118163808#Comment_118163808

Have someone with credibility explain to them what would happen if they ever raised a hand to a child, at least it worked in my school. Mind you having an officer of a flying column (1919 - 21) with a documented reputation of having shot three member of the crown forces dead, can have a very sobering impact.... this was in the 1950s. A very unusual man for his times, he had strange ideas like it was very wrong to hit children etc....

silliussoddius

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118164397#Comment_118164397

Really, back in the day the most academically gifted went into teaching???

Seemed to me it was failed priests and psychos.

Macy0161

They were banned when I was in school - mainly because of fights and arguments over them though iirc. More recently with my own children, they were banned because of the prevalence of nut and seed allergies rather than litigation fears.

Ish66

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118163489#Comment_118163489

I am sure some of those parents read Boards so they know who they are.

Ish66

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118163808#Comment_118163808

It probably involves kneeling down to pray or something else. Either way your mouth is used.

BurgerFace

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118162827#Comment_118162827

Then why not ban just about every activity that "could" cause injury, offense or discomfort. Ban breathing because your little darling could get sick from another pupil's germs. Ban PE / sports. Ban eating on school grounds because Heaven forbid some kid chokes on his fcuking chicken roll and mammy sues us.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118162595#Comment_118162595

Correct. They were banned in our school because of the sap that comes out of the green outer casing, which used to stain clothes something awful. Couple of uniforms got destroyed, so conkers were banned.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118163388#Comment_118163388

I'll take "'Things that never happened' for 500 please, Alex"

Gregor Samsa

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118175792#Comment_118175792

We’ll, you lose your 500, because everything I posted actually happened in my primary school on the north side of Dublin in the late 70s early 80s.

What do you think never happened? The kid being stripped and his clothes thrown out the window? 100% happened - I could name the teacher and the child involved - and it’s not the worst thing that happened then either. Why would I make that up?

I hate that shït when idiots claim something didn’t happen just because it doesn’t fit into their limited experience.

I also hate that “Jeopardy” quote meme thing. American bollox.

Strumms

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118175792#Comment_118175792

Running in the yard but not conkers banned in ours too...

breezy1985

Why do old people get angry at the snowflake kids when it's the "boomers" making the snowflake rules?

I'm pretty sure any game like dobbers or conkers were banned in my school at some stage, usually cause lads would fight of cheating or wouldn't hand over winnings.

There was a time sports were banned in the local park too and not cause the kids were snowflakes but because the "boomer" parents were money hungry cnuts who sued over a broken leg

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118175944#Comment_118175944

Nobody hung anyone out the window by their ankles. Nobody.

I grew up in North Dublin in the 80s. My "limited experience" is dwarfed by the sheer number of spoofers and chancers who made **** up on a regular basis in some poxy attempt to impress others. You keep pretending that it happened, we'll keep pretending that we're impressed.

Gregor Samsa

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118176064#Comment_118176064

the teacher who did that particular act - and he 100% did it - was a raging alcoholic who regularly physically assaulted little kids for no good reason other than his own demons.

Must be great living life in a bubble with your fingers in your ears. La! La! La! The bad things never happened. La! La! La!

theres plenty of things I’ll joke about in this site, and you’ll know when my posts are done for comic effect. But I won’t put up with being called a spoofer.

The fact that you're immediately on the attack, insulting others and claiming they live in bubbles says it all. Good luck, chief.

phonypony

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118175710#Comment_118175710

Because that would be ridiculous. As intelligent beings, we risk assess activities rather than imposing a blanket ban on everything. Everyone eats every day, everyone breathes every day, no ban required there. Kids play sport, there's a risk of injury and agro, it's supervised for safety and insurance. Conkers on dodgy shoelaces can come loose or be used in anger, unsanctioned use can't be supervised: impose a ban. Simples!

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118162606#Comment_118162606

Well, they're doing a bad job of it because Gen Z are the most rebellious generation since Irish independence.

They're fighting for human rights, housing and the environment but are called 'soft' and 'snowflakes' by older generations (that were compliant in their youth) when they do so.

breezy1985

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118176064#Comment_118176064

Ide much rather be hung out the window than a lot of the other stuff we know about.

It's a pretty mild urban legend compared to the Christian Brothers