On the 10 o'clock news just now. Nicola Sturgeon putting her arm around the shoulder of a school child in full view of the cameras .... surely inappropriate touching in this day and age ?
Andrew
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Nicola Sturgeon touching minor
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It's ok if she has had a clean CRB check beforehand
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Sturgeon bludgeons gudgeon a smidgeon.
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Nope, particularly in full view of lots of people.
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No its fine, it the other way around that is wrong. Brian
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Well, Tiger Woods hugged a young boy yesterday!
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That's not hugging.
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If you extend that thought then the video recording and broadcasting of the event would probably be illegal too.
Owain
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But it was on the BBC - they've been encouraging / covering up that sort thing for years !!!
Andrew
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We've a young boy in primary school. Very much a female world, with much physical contact as you'd expect, and I don't know a single person who'd even consider it remarkable. How a male teacher would fare in that situation, I can't imagine, and I find myself wondering why this should be so.
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I don't remember any physical contact with teachers in primary school, apart from possibly the occasional plaster on a skinned knee.
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I don't remember much at all from primary school, which makes me a bit sad. But for me it was only a few very young years. I don't think they have separate junior schools like we did. Our primary school goes right up to age 11.
I think they're trying to create a sort of 'nurturing' environment nowadays. I think that's good - I'm not advocating the sort of stand-offishness that I grew up with.
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Odd, isn't it. Even the most macho blokes cuddle when they meet. On say a TV chat show. But don't give a distressed kid a cuddle ever. It is very sad.
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I remember stinging nettles, cat shit in the sandpit, oil heaters in the ou tside toilets in winter, rather dodgy bakelite electric adapters powering t he christmas tree, and being sent to the shops on summer afternoons to buy lollies for the whole school. This was age 3.5 - 7.
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They do now. They didn't in the 19-mumbleties. At least not on Wogan or Harty.
Owain
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Exactly the point I was making. Ok for virtual strangers to cuddle, but a teacher can't comfort a kid in his charge. The exact reverse of some time ago.
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A few months ago, when I was walking the lad home from school, another little boy was hurtling along the pavement on a scooter, slipped on some dogshit, and got a bit hurt. Nothing serious, but lots of crying. I rushed to see if he was okay, and we talked a bit to calm him down, but I felt strangely compelled to keep my hands behind my back. There wasn't even anyone else around. I later put it down to just being absurdly 'british', but I really think it was just fear of any accusations.
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Not even the occasional slap for bad behaviour? Or, in the case of the girls, a spanking across the headmaster's knee, with their knickers down. Nobody did explain whey he suddenly left mid term.