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Principal Judy Beckworth said stood by her decision and said the ban would be in place for a week in a bid to cut back the number of injuries to students in the school yard.
"I don't believe this is taking it too far and this is not an overreaction," she said.
"When you have students badly injuring themselves, it would be unacceptable for me not to take action.
"Parents will relate to this - you sometimes need to do these common sense things to get the message through to kids.
"Of course sport and games are an important part of school life and it will be business as usual next week."
Ms Beckworth said recent injuries included a broken collarbone, wrists and concussion.
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Bit more understandable really. what the hell are those kids doing. The curriculum-voluntary payments thing is much more concerning
 
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Kong said:
Of course, and I was a bit of a jerk to some kids, too, but banning of best friends is lolable.
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Of course, but a quick search of it leads to this: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4203460/Schools-ban-children-making-best-friends.html

I don't think that's related to the 'bullying agenda'. It's similar, but it's nothing to do with trying to help out the kid getting picked on every single day by a large group or something. It's just "hey maybe you should hang out with these kids too". It's perhaps PC gone mad and that stuff, but it's not related to preventing bullying.
 
Way over the top reaction from the school. For the record I was basically nice to everyone at school. I was sort of not really affiliated with any 'groups.' Got on well with members from all groups (nerds, jocks etc.).
 
i love that your work has banned the sun

TEACHERS are banning schoolkids from having best pals — so they don’t get upset by fall-outs.

Instead, the primary pupils are being encouraged to play in large groups.

Educational psychologist Gaynor Sbuttoni said the policy has been used at schools in Kingston, South West London, and Surrey.

She added: “I have noticed that teachers tell children they shouldn’t have a best friend and that everyone should play together.

“They are doing it because they want to save the child the pain of splitting up from their best friend. But it is natural for some children to want a best friend. If they break up, they have to feel the pain because they’re learning to deal with it.”

Russell Hobby, of the National Association of Head Teachers, confirmed some schools were adopting best-friend bans.

He said: “I don’t think it is widespread but it is clearly happening. It seems bizarre.

“I don’t see how you can stop people from forming close friendships. We make and lose friends throughout our lives.” The Campaign for Real Education, which wants more parental choice in state education, said the “ridiculous” policy was robbing children of their childhood.

Spokesman Chris McGovern added: “Children take things very seriously and if you tell them they can’t have a best friend it can be seriously damaging to them. They need to learn about relationships.”
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I'm not sure how exactly I would class that, but yeah it's just not related to bullying, which I feel is a fairly specific sorta thing, and for whatever reason people - obv not just user gw but lots of people including newspapers - like to drag stuff like this into that issue when it's not related and use it to devalue efforts to call out bullies which annoys me. (Indeed, it could be argued encouraging kids to you know 'spread' and hang out with groups is very bad for that loner kid...)
 
I think that article overlooks that if there's a bust up between best friends, the teacher will try to sort it out a bit anyway. or maybe that was just at my primary school. so i dunno know seems a huge fuss about nothing.

Actually, to go back to the fat tax the thing the other day, and this isn't really related to this at all but it's just a thought, you'd think any anti-bullying group worth it's salt would be totally for a fat tax, cause I mean if you're really fat at 6/7, you've either got some horrible genes going on, or your parents have totally ****ed up, and then you've gotta take the heat!
 
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