Baa, baa, black sheep,
Have you any wool?
Yes sir, yes sir,
Three bags full;
One for the master,
And one for the dame,
And one for the little boy
Who lives down the lane
(See ewe… sheep really can come in many colours)
We all remember this childhood nursery rhyme. It has been around since 1744 and was written to satirise the taxes imposed on wool exports.
Children today still sing it at nursery school, pre school or daycare.
Pretty harmless and cute, right?
WRONG!!!!!!
In a Kool-Aid induced fit of moonbat political correctness, “black” sheep are out – “rainbow” and “happy” sheep are in in England.
Will this soon be a part of the Canadian Liberal daycare collective? Will our children be protected from the scourge of “black” sheep?
Nursery opts for ‘rainbow’ sheep
…Pre-school children attending two nurseries in Oxfordshire are being taught a new version of Baa Baa Black Sheep – Baa Baa Rainbow Sheep.
…Critics say altering the words of the traditional nursery rhyme is an example of political correctness gone too far.
…But the charity running the nurseries, Parents and Children Together (Pact), said the move was educational, not motivated by racial concerns.
…“Pact has established that children sing a variety of descriptive words in the nursery rhyme to turn the song into an action rhyme,” the charity said in a statement.
…”They sing happy, sad, bouncing, hopping, pink, blue, black and white sheep etc and they also exchange boy and girl at the end of the rhyme.
…While the words have been altered at two Oxfordshire nurseries – the Abingdon Family Centre and the Sure Start Centre in Sutton Courtenay – other nurseries in the area have not taken such steps.
..“We sing Baa Baa Black Sheep and Baa Baa White Sheep (I never remember singing this when I was young) because that’s reality, that’s what the children see in the fields and it encourages them to look around them,” said Jill Edge, from the Sunshine Centre in Banbury, north Oxfordshire. (They must be giving these kids some Kool-Aid for their snack)..“Realistically, they are not going to see rainbow sheep in the fields. There are much better ways of addressing these issues.”
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It gets better.
In another article
… teachers at the nurseries have reportedly also changed the ending of Humpty Dumpty so as not to upset the children and dropped the seven dwarfs from the title of Snow White.
Why?
A spokesman for Ofsted, the watchdog which inspects Sure Start centres, confirmed that centres are expected to “have regard to anti-discrimination good practice” and that staff should “actively promote equality of opportunity”. (So, sheep are to be equal -I’m assuming the anti-discrimination and equality issues are to do with dwarves.)
In spite of their good intentions, parents laugh at these developments.
…A mother whose daughter attends the Sure Start nursery at the Family Centre in Abingdon, who did not want to be named, said parents had been astonished by the change. Baa Baa, Black Sheep has been one of the most well-known nursery rhymes for generations. For people to come along and fiddle with it is ridiculous. What on earth is a rainbow sheep anyway?” (I think we would all like to know.)
…“I’ve spoken to other parents about it and none of us has ever heard of anyone getting offended by the words “black sheep’.”
Even a local politician can’t understand all of the fuss…
…Gervase Duffield, a Conservative district councillor representing Sutton Courtenay and Appleford, denounced the ban as ridiculous.
..“It’s the sort of thing that people continually do nowadays — it’s become something of a curse,” he said. “Why do people waste time and money doing this sort of thing when there are far more important things to think about when it comes to educating our children? (like readin’ writin’ & ‘rithmetic…..)
Ironically. when this “black sheep” ban was tried in Birmingham, England in 2000,
black parents objected because they found the idea ridiculous.
Margaret Morrissey, of the National Confederation of Parent Teachers Association, said: “It’s really sad. Children for generations have loved and enjoyed nursery rhymes and it’s very sad if adult political correctness doesn’t allow them to grow up in an unbiased world.”
It sure is sad, Margaret. Children mimic what they see adults say and do. They’re pretty unbiased until adults like these loonies that run the nurseries decide, (based on their own supposed biases and mindset) that they know what’s best for the children.
It was mostly parents who spoke up against this idiocy. See, they’re pretty good at knowing what’s best for their kids. Are you listening, Liberals & NDP?
