Bah Bah Rainbow Sheep??? - General Discussion

supermansam · 25-03-2006, 18:05

A friend told me today that they have changed the childrens nursery rhyme to Bah Bah rainbow sheep as Bah Bah Black Sheep was seen as offensive, I didn't know whether to believe him or not is this true?

ianx · 25-03-2006, 18:07

Don't worry, I just tried singing it and the words were still the same as always.

DaisyBumbleroot · 25-03-2006, 18:07

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Originally Posted by supermansam

A friend told me today that they have changed the childrens nursery rhyme to Bah Bah rainbow sheep as Bah Bah Black Sheep was seen as offensive, I didn't know whether to believe him or not is this true?

there was a thread about this a few weeks back on here.

Someone else today on another thread (hot cross buns i think) said that actually both stories are an urban myth and that attempts have been made to find the schools in the stories and no-one can find either...

If any one has any links to the stories that NAME the schools id be interested...

Mesostim · 25-03-2006, 18:09

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Originally Posted by Sven945

Some quotes from an article in the current Private Eye...

BAA HUMBUG

Halley's comet, Peter Mandelson resigning, Ulrika being dumped and Tim Henman getting knocked out of Wimbledon: some stories can be relied on to turn up regularly in the papers with only the tiniest alterations required to bring them up to date.

One such is that which reappeared in the Sun, Mail, Times and Mirror, and most spectacularly, emblazoned across the front of the Daily Express last week: "Political Correctness goes mad at the nursery: NOW IT'S 'BAA BAA RAINBOW SHEEP'"

According to The Express: "Teachers at a government-backed school were ordered to change the lyrics of the classic Baa Baa Black Sheep... The idea was to 'avoid offending children' and keep in line with 'equal opportunities'."

This tale - wherein a politically correct administrator insists that children remove all references that could be considered racist from "Baa Baa Black Sheep" - first surfaced in February 1986, when the Daily Star and Sun declared that "loony left-wing councillors" had banned children at Hackney play groups from singing the rhyme. It was not true then either.

Neither was it true in October of that year, when the Daily Mail claimed play leaders on a Haringey Council racism awareness course had been told to stamp oput the song; nor in 1987, when Islington Council went to court to stop an SDP party political broadcast which falsely claimed they had imposed a ban; nor in 2000 when carious papers relocated it to Birmingham and nor in 2005 when the Mail on Sunday moved it all the way up to Aberdeen.

For the record, the charity Parents and Children Together, which runs the two play groups at the centre of last week's outbreak, told the Press Assocation that "children at the two family centres sing a cariety of descriptive words in the nursery rhyme to turn the song into an action rhyme. The sing happy, sad, bouncing, bopping, pink, blue, black and white sheep etc. This encourages the children to extend their covabulary." Curiously, this explanation went unreported by any of the national papers.

jack

Should really repost this on every page...

DillholeMcGinty · 25-03-2006, 18:09

Yeah its true, the colour black has also been banned.

Digital spy is also to shut down after today. Because its offensive to spy's

PamelaL · 25-03-2006, 18:09

FFS Just shoot me now.

25-03-2006, 18:10

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Originally Posted by PamelaL

FFS Just shoot me now.

do you have a last request?

Chie · 25-03-2006, 18:11

It's political correctness gone mad!

DaisyBumbleroot · 25-03-2006, 18:12

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Originally Posted by PamelaL

FFS Just shoot me now.

Awww, give him/her/it a break, they only just arrived here and are obviously oblivious to him/her/it that this (and other topics) have been done to death

Mesostim · 25-03-2006, 18:12

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Originally Posted by Chie

It's political correctness gone mad!

Post 8...getting better...

ianx · 25-03-2006, 18:13

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Originally Posted by DaisyBumbleroot

Someone else today on another thread (hot cross buns i think) said that actually both stories are an urban myth and that attempts have been made to find the schools in the stories and no-one can find either...

If any one has any links to the stories that NAME the schools id be interested...

The Hot Cross Buns story names both the school and the head teacher, which agree with the details given on the Suffolk council web site: http://www.suffolk.gov.uk/EducationA...ksCPSchool.htm

25-03-2006, 18:18

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Originally Posted by PamelaL

FFS Just shoot me now.

Who gets to shoot first? Or is it a free-for-all.

swingaleg · 25-03-2006, 18:18

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Originally Posted by Mesostim

Should really repost this on every page...

Just make it a 'sticky'...........save a lot of time.............

25-03-2006, 18:20

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Originally Posted by Chie

It's political correctness gone mad!

Is that whats called `coining a phrase?`.

Barry Bulls Hit · 25-03-2006, 18:22

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Originally Posted by PamelaL

FFS Just shoot me now.

Damn...my gun licence has expired!

PamelaL · 25-03-2006, 18:27

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Originally Posted by Zero gravitas.

Who gets to shoot first? Or is it a free-for-all.

Anyone, honestly just go for it.

marling · 25-03-2006, 18:27

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Originally Posted by ianx

The Hot Cross Buns story names both the school and the head teacher, which agree with the details given on the Suffolk council web site: http://www.suffolk.gov.uk/EducationA...ksCPSchool.htm

Ah, thanks for the link. I see the story is in The Sun. Well it has to be true then?

Private Eye covered this story in the latest edition, stating that the same 'Baa Baa [whatever] sheep' story does the rounds every few years.

DaisyBumbleroot · 25-03-2006, 18:27

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Originally Posted by ianx

The Hot Cross Buns story names both the school and the head teacher, which agree with the details given on the Suffolk council web site: http://www.suffolk.gov.uk/EducationA...ksCPSchool.htm

Ta, just wanted to see if it was real or rumour. Is baa baa rainbow sheep real to?

Night_Market · 25-03-2006, 18:29

Blackboard's are now called 'greenboards'

Bring on ethnic 'Tippex'

BexTech · 25-03-2006, 18:32

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/600470.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/4782856.stm

My cousin (over 25 years ago) was suspended from school, because back then his Birmingham School decided to change the words to Baa Baa Green Sheep, he was only about 4 and turned around to the teacher and said I ain't singing that, I've never seen a bloody green sheep.

Not long after the school was advised not to be so stupid to drop the word black, as by doing so they are saying black is bad.

BexTech · 25-03-2006, 18:33

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Originally Posted by Night_Market

Blackboard's are now called 'greenboards'

Bring on ethnic 'Tippex'

For a couple of years when I was at school in the late 70s early 80s they tried to drop the word blackboard, it didn't work.

DaisyBumbleroot · 25-03-2006, 18:36

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Originally Posted by BexTech

For a couple of years when I was at school in the late 70s early 80s they tried to drop the word blackboard, it didn't work.

I dont really understand what an inanimate object like a blackboard has to do with insulting peoples ethnicity anyway?

Its a board and its coloured black.

Some people are very very dark brown (Ive never met a BLACK person yet).

And the connection is?

25-03-2006, 18:37

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Originally Posted by Night_Market

Blackboard's are now called 'greenboards'

Bring on ethnic 'Tippex'

Circumcision thread is that way>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Night_Market · 25-03-2006, 18:39

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Originally Posted by BexTech

For a couple of years when I was at school in the late 70s early 80s they tried to drop the word blackboard, it didn't work.

From one of our aprentices' - "the black kid's got on trips to recording studios and stuff, while we got nothing"

What is this with overcompensation

BexTech · 25-03-2006, 18:40

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Originally Posted by DaisyBumbleroot

I dont really understand what an inanimate object like a blackboard has to do with insulting peoples ethnicity anyway?

Its a board and its coloured black.

Some people are very very dark brown (Ive never met a BLACK person yet).

And the connection is?

Exactly, it's crazy and there is no connection.

We used to ensure we said the word blackboard, we would say to the teacher, right we can't say the word black, as being black is a bad thing.

25-03-2006, 18:05	#1
supermansam Forum Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 188	Bah Bah Rainbow Sheep??? A friend told me today that they have changed the childrens nursery rhyme to Bah Bah rainbow sheep as Bah Bah Black Sheep was seen as offensive, I didn't know whether to believe him or not is this true?

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ianx Forum Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Popincourt Posts: 5,719	Don't worry, I just tried singing it and the words were still the same as always.

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BexTech Banned User Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Back where I belong. Services: Life's essentials. Posts: 12,577	http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/600470.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/4782856.stm My cousin (over 25 years ago) was suspended from school, because back then his Birmingham School decided to change the words to Baa Baa Green Sheep, he was only about 4 and turned around to the teacher and said I ain't singing that, I've never seen a bloody green sheep. Not long after the school was advised not to be so stupid to drop the word black, as by doing so they are saying black is bad.