{"id":11942,"date":"2013-07-16T09:53:56","date_gmt":"2013-07-16T08:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pinkoddy.co.uk\/?p=11942"},"modified":"2013-07-20T05:24:01","modified_gmt":"2013-07-20T04:24:01","slug":"should-schools-dictate-the-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/54.155.211.39\/blog\/2013\/07\/16\/should-schools-dictate-the-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Should schools dictate the rules"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"water\"<\/a>Today my reception year son has gone to school with a spare clothes and a towel ready for a water fight. Although he\u2019s very excited he is confused about why he isn\u2019t allowed a water-gun \u2013 you see it\u2019s in the name isn\u2019t it \u201cgun.\u201d I guess I can see where the school are coming from on this one as would I be happy to feel that the school were promoting guns to reception age (4-5 years) children \u2013 most definitely not. Why we tend to see water-guns as something different I don\u2019t know. Maybe it\u2019s because it was my compromise as to what I found acceptable for me to have at home, as my boys used to use their imaginations (lollipop stick guns) or always begged for toy guns at fairs.\u00a0 Some may feel even that is over the top and that toys are toys \u2013 and actually we just need to teach our children the difference.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I digress, what this got me to thinking about is how many rules do we actually need for children? There\u2019s a free club set up in the holidays by a charity and the lady told me that they wanted to have the children for the day, but that there\u2019s so much red tape involved in giving the children lunch that it just wasn\u2019t feasible. Do children need this much protection? Can parents not make decisions anymore? Or are there too many vulnerable children because parents aren\u2019t making the \u201cright\u201d choices?<\/p>\n

And how much should schools be able to decide? With when you can go on holiday; what you can eat (the packed lunch debate); whether you are allowed to take photographs and when; if they can use social media \u2013 are just some of the things that I have come across. What next \u2013 will schools be able to dictate what time our children go to bed?<\/p>\n

What do you think? Do we need all these rules? Should schools be able to decide so much?<\/p>\n

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Today my reception year son has gone to school with a spare clothes and a towel ready for a water fight. Although he\u2019s very excited he is confused about why he isn\u2019t allowed a water-gun \u2013 you see it\u2019s in the name isn\u2019t it \u201cgun.\u201d I guess I can see where the school are coming … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,6,7],"tags":[2533,3499,1438,1473],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/54.155.211.39\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/water.jpg?fit=508%2C411","uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/54.155.211.39\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/water.jpg?fit=508%2C411",508,411,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/54.155.211.39\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/water.jpg?resize=150%2C150",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/54.155.211.39\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/water.jpg?fit=300%2C243",300,243,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/54.155.211.39\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/water.jpg?fit=508%2C411",508,411,true],"large":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/54.155.211.39\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/water.jpg?fit=508%2C411",508,411,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/54.155.211.39\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/water.jpg?fit=508%2C411",508,411,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/54.155.211.39\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/water.jpg?fit=508%2C411",508,411,true]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"pinkoddy","author_link":"http:\/\/54.155.211.39\/blog\/author\/pinkoddy\/"},"uagb_comment_info":12,"uagb_excerpt":"Today my reception year son has gone to school with a spare clothes and a towel ready for a water fight. Although he\u2019s very excited he is confused about why he isn\u2019t allowed a water-gun \u2013 you see it\u2019s in the name isn\u2019t it \u201cgun.\u201d I guess I can see where the school are coming…","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pepM9j-36C","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/54.155.211.39\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11942"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/54.155.211.39\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/54.155.211.39\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/54.155.211.39\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/54.155.211.39\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/54.155.211.39\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/54.155.211.39\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/54.155.211.39\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/54.155.211.39\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/54.155.211.39\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}