Online Safety Bill

[Stephen]

Originally Posted by RichardCoulter

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...n%20the%20idea.

Schools seem to be on a roll with wanting to ban things. A primary school wants to ban it's 7-11 year old girls from wearing skirts as they are wearing them too short:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...n%20the%20idea.

Is this innapropriately sexualising children or a good idea to deter paedophiles from taking an interest in them?

It's a skirt for crying out loud. Females have worn them forever. Who is even suggesting it's sexualising girls at all? Certainly not that article.

Also what's that got to do with online safety?

[RichardCoulter]

Originally Posted by Russ

Nothing will do that.

No, I suspect not. I was just thinking that a paedophile may find a skirt thats too short to be titilating and encourage their interest in particular individuals.

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Originally Posted by Stephen

It's a skirt for crying out loud. Females have worn them forever. Who is even suggesting it's sexualising girls at all? Certainly not that article.

Also what's that got to do with online safety?

A discussion on TV yesterdat morning where it was suggested that this extension of schools wanting to ban things was sexualising children. For balance there were also others who supported the idea.

[peanut]

Originally Posted by RichardCoulter

No, I suspect not. I was just thinking that a paedophile may find a skirt thats too short to be titilating and encourage their interest in particular individuals.

I don't know how your mind works but it seems you're a bit too obsessed and it does look a bit unhealthy.

Why can't the school in question just apply the rules to a uniform, after all that's what a uniform means. Skirts should be knee length, and they should just enforce that as a rule. No need to ban skirts at all. To look into everything from a paedo's point of view constantly to me is just a bit weird.

[mrmistoffelees]

https://youtu.be/BVeZnsuY7Vc?si=a58k9X7d9w_rpgmk

[RichardCoulter]

Originally Posted by peanut

I don't know how your mind works but it seems you're a bit too obsessed and it does look a bit unhealthy.

Why can't the school in question just apply the rules to a uniform, after all that's what a uniform means. Skirts should be knee length, and they should just enforce that as a rule. No need to ban skirts at all. To look into everything from a paedo's point of view constantly to me is just a bit weird.

Looking at things from the point of view of a paedophile is one of the ways that children can be protected. This is why it was brought up on the Channel 5 discussion yesterday.

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From about 0:09 this segment speaks about the experiences of a headmaster who, along with others, banned smartphones in their schools. One of the things that she said was that it was found that, as soon as one child in a class got one, all the others started getting them too.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001zdw2

[Stephen]

Sorry but I don't need to see a clip to know that once one kid has something then the rest want it too. It's called FOMO.

Like if I got the latest He-Man figure chances are everyone at school would soon get it too.

Originally Posted by RichardCoulter

A primary school wants to ban it's 7-11 year old girls from wearing skirts as they are wearing them too short:

No, a Primary School Head wants too.
Perhaps all these skirts are just bothering him.
Maybe he needs to look a bit closer to home.

Or maybe hes just another of these idiots who thinks girls should not wear skirts because its 'girly' and we cant have that now can we.

Makes you wonder how such muppets get to be head teachers in the first place.

Meanwhile, back in the real world, girls wear skirts to school (and at home, and on holiday, etc etc) and life goes on as it always has.

Looking at things from the point of view of a paedophile is one of the ways that children can be protected.

You seem to think every everyone is "a paedophile", and everyone on the internet is a predator (actually, I'm pretty sure you just think every male is one or the other).

You obsession with all of this is starting to look very weird.

[mrmistoffelees]

Originally Posted by RichardCoulter

Looking at things from the point of view of a paedophile is one of the ways that children can be protected. This is why it was brought up on the Channel 5 discussion yesterday.

---------- Post added at 23:07 ---------- Previous post was at 23:04 ----------

From about 0:09 this segment speaks about the experiences of a headmaster who, along with others, banned smartphones in their schools. One of the things that she said was that it was found that, as soon as one child in a class got one, all the others started getting them too.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001zdw2

for me, this is starting to get dangerously close to the 'they were wearing a short skirt, therefore they were asking for it' gibberish.

[jonbxx]

I have done a quick scan through of the mobile phone policies for the local secondary schools including the one my kids go to. Five out of six have a mobile phone ban in place as part of their online safety policy. Interestingly, the one that doesn’t as far as I can see is one of the top performing state schools in the country (Watford Grammar School For Boys)