{"id":5666,"date":"2014-02-05T08:17:37","date_gmt":"2014-02-05T08:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=5666"},"modified":"2014-02-05T08:17:37","modified_gmt":"2014-02-05T08:17:37","slug":"education-in-a-lunchbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2014\/02\/05\/education-in-a-lunchbox\/","title":{"rendered":"An education in a lunchbox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An English school suspended a 6-year old boy for 4 days recently.\u00a0 What was his crime do you suppose?<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Was he abusive? <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Was he violent? <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Was he a bully? <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Did he have Class A drugs down his trousers? <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Pornography up his sleeve? <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">A cartoon of the Prophet (pbuh) in his desk? <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Is he a climate change denier? <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Was he heard supporting Mr Gove's school policies? <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Did he bad-mouth the NUT? <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Was he questioning the benefits of the Quality industry?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Not at all; none of these things. \u00a0He just had the wrong sort of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/home-news\/sixyearold-schoolboy-suspended-for-having-mini-cheddars-in-his-lunchbox-9101236.html\">food<\/a> in his packed lunch. \u00a0He liked it, and his mother said it was ok because he had, viewed across a 24-hour period, a balanced diet. \u00a0She said ...<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"line-height: 22px;color: #333333;font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;font-size: 14px !important\"><em>\"Having a balanced diet also includes eating some carbohydrates, sugars and fats. \u00a0It is not about excluding some foods, it is about getting the mix right.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"line-height: 22px;color: #333333;font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;font-size: 14px !important\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif;font-size: 13px;line-height: 19px\">The school, from some reports at least, is considering expelling the boy. <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif;font-size: 13px;line-height: 19px\">What nonsense; how shameful. <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif;font-size: 13px;line-height: 19px\">How does that help his education? \u00a0Well, s<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif;line-height: 19px\">adly, the boy will be learning a lot from all this \u2013 but mostly about power, <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif;font-size: 13px;line-height: 19px\">intolerance<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif;line-height: 19px\">, mean-spiritedness, bullying and conformity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 22px;color: #333333;font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;font-size: 14px !important\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif;line-height: 19px\">In England these days, if a parent unreasonably prevents a child from attending school, they are fined. \u00a0There is no sanction, however, on a school that does this. \u00a0Where are you Mr Gove, when a child needs you?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An English school suspended a 6-year old boy for 4 days recently.\u00a0 What was his crime do you suppose? 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