ChrisJones 7,975 Posted March 16, 2008 Report Share Posted March 16, 2008 inform the shooting organizations, they are more able to deal with things like this. By the time they react the damage will be done. Get some handouts of your own! any suggestions of organisations to contact,i have kept the sheets she was given, i can get it copied and try a few diferent organisations Countryside Alliance. Again though by the time they react the damage will be done. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest coney catcher99 Posted March 16, 2008 Report Share Posted March 16, 2008 how can teachers debate about somthing they havnt a clue about if there was a pupil who lived in the countryside spoke up they would be f****d spechless, i once had a teacher listening into my conversion when my mate asked me what i had for xmas hunting dvds and the list whent on the teacher butted in sayin do you realise its ellegal to have hunting films my mother was up the school the next day and i had the teacher in tears thats the last she will talk about somthing she aintgot a clue about she will learn to keep stum next time im sure Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Missie 1 Posted March 16, 2008 Report Share Posted March 16, 2008 The Countryside Alliance do a really good education pack, i'd send you mine but I can't find it. I had it sent out when I did my A level Geography. There was a good video in it aswell as some useful information sheets and if I remember rightly it was sent out fairly swiftly. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mistwalker 0 Posted March 16, 2008 Report Share Posted March 16, 2008 Wasn't Brian Plummer a schoolteacher at one point? Not entirely sure what I'm trying to say, just thought I'd throw it into the mix Quote Link to post Share on other sites
whip 1 Posted March 17, 2008 Report Share Posted March 17, 2008 when my kids(now 18+20) started junior school i went and told the head master we were a hunting family(earned a living at it) and that they wouldn't be at school thursdays through the winter,also told secondry school,they were ok about it. when boy was 9 they had an achievement day,he took in a fox mask and brush (mounted) of a fox we'd killed while he was helping whip-in (infact he knocked it out a bush into the pack but we're not suppose to say that lol) and in fairness they put it on display with the other kids mechano etc. when my boy was 14 he came out of school completely to go into a showjumping yard, they sent the county education officer round,we were ready for a big fight but he was fine about it. so i guess what i'm trying to say is i would go into school and tell them where you and the family stand on these issues. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mouse 282 Posted March 17, 2008 Report Share Posted March 17, 2008 the school my kids are at is fine because it is a small village school where a lot of the kids are from the fafming and horse community.every monday the kids write up about the weekend and it always includes going out with foxhounds or our minkhounds.on the other hand my wife teaches in the town and they aint got a clue about the countryside.she has had a few snidy comments about the stickers on our vehicles but she just takes no notice.if that was me id be slapping somebody. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Kay 3,709 Posted March 17, 2008 Report Share Posted March 17, 2008 The primary school my lad went to are also good, i took ferrets in for the kids to hold & look at & the head was very keen to learn what they do , i didnt get any '' they stink'' comments either, but i also live in a village I think its a refreshing change for kids to have a little taster of what goes on beond the bedroom door & theres more to life than games consoles Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Missie 1 Posted March 17, 2008 Report Share Posted March 17, 2008 When my dad offered to take one of his orphan lambs into my daughter school we were told it was against health and saftey and the teacher stuck her nose up at it. My daughter is quite open about the fact that she goes hunting at weekend etc and they really don't like it! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Andrea 2 Posted March 17, 2008 Report Share Posted March 17, 2008 my daughter came home with homework about fox hunting today and i find some of the stuff they are teaching her very biased, there is even a list on there saying: WHAT YOU CAN DO 1.Never go to a fox hunt 2.show this fact sheet to your friends and family and use it in class debates 3.write to your local newspaperabout fox hunting 4.send a letter to your localmember of parliment (you can get their names and addresses at your local library ), ask them to write back to you saying how they feel about fox hunting and ask them what they are doing about it write about how you feel and why you think fox hunting is cruel % of people in britain are against fox hunting only 0.5% of lambs are killed by foxes this has made me very angry, they are being brainwashed in my eyes, this is something they should make their own mind up about what is goin on, this country sucks The best time to catch someone is when they’re young. Young minds can be easily shaped and it’s for this reason that children tend to be subjected to these types of teachings ( possibly more than adults). It’s underhanded but it insures the new generation will grow up, being very much against hunting. The only real thing you can do, is speak to your children, explain to them that not everything they hear is correct and give them a positive counter argument against what they have heard from school. I believe that schools should be kept out of political arguments and should keep their idea’s/ teaching’s impartial. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest dog on Posted March 17, 2008 Report Share Posted March 17, 2008 my daughter came home with homework about fox hunting today and i find some of the stuff they are teaching her very biased, there is even a list on there saying: WHAT YOU CAN DO 1.Never go to a fox hunt 2.show this fact sheet to your friends and family and use it in class debates 3.write to your local newspaperabout fox hunting 4.send a letter to your localmember of parliment (you can get their names and addresses at your local library ), ask them to write back to you saying how they feel about fox hunting and ask them what they are doing about it write about how you feel and why you think fox hunting is cruel % of people in britain are against fox hunting only 0.5% of lambs are killed by foxes this has made me very angry, they are being brainwashed in my eyes, this is something they should make their own mind up about what is goin on, this country sucks i thought you might have noticed by now we are all being brainwashed in this country .go and print your own points on how bad the teaching is in schools and hand them out at school gait then they just might leave things like hunting alone and put there time into some thing useful but i seriously don think they will //dont forget to mention how mutch time teachers have off they realy dont like that one//and whydid a certain school get away with bying cheap contaminated meat to feed to kids Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest bigredbusa Posted March 17, 2008 Report Share Posted March 17, 2008 when my kids(now 18+20) started junior school i went and told the head master we were a hunting family(earned a living at it) and that they wouldn't be at school thursdays through the winter,also told secondry school,they were ok about it. when boy was 9 they had an achievement day,he took in a fox mask and brush (mounted) of a fox we'd killed while he was helping whip-in (infact he knocked it out a bush into the pack but we're not suppose to say that lol) and in fairness they put it on display with the other kids mechano etc. when my boy was 14 he came out of school completely to go into a showjumping yard, they sent the county education officer round,we were ready for a big fight but he was fine about it. so i guess what i'm trying to say is i would go into school and tell them where you and the family stand on these issues. try that these days and you will up inside for keeping your kid truant . sad days Quote Link to post Share on other sites
cragman 2,812 Posted March 17, 2008 Report Share Posted March 17, 2008 Feckin' hell, who'd want to be a kid these days...not me . I can remenber when my school report had a section on it called "Rural Studies" and although I was pretty good with a football and at P.E. "Rural Studies" was my thing. Academically speaking, I was a waste of time, but "Rural Studies"....ahh, those were the days. Those of us that prefered the outdoors used to conduct nature walks for the rest of the class because our teacher knew feck all and she admitted it. We used to have an "Interesting Table" at the back of the class and come monday morning it used to be full of old birds nests, wasp nests, birds eggs, frog spawn, owl pellets, anything that we thought was "Interesting" for the others in our class. I once took my ferrets in to my lads school when he was a nipper and I couldn't get out of the place, the whole school went bananas for them! Happy days. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
timjim 43 Posted March 17, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 17, 2008 (edited) i got an O level in rural studies did my project for my course work on the Brown trout and fishing, in the same bloody school ! Edited March 17, 2008 by timjim Quote Link to post Share on other sites
timjim 43 Posted March 17, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 17, 2008 THE SAGA CONTINUES TODAYS HOMEWORK, FOX HUNTING writing a letter to your local mp writing a list of reasons why you think fox hunting is wrong then it has reasons why fox hunting is wrong , and a section the kids have to fill in saying"evidence to back up what i say/ how i feel about it 1 fox hunting is cruel, the animal dies in agony 2 hunting foxes is not the most effective way of killing foxes 3 foxes control their own population so there is no need to kill them 4 hounds are shot when they get too old to hunt then it says now put your reasons in order starting with the one you think is most important you may find the following words usefull cruel disembowelled terrified ripped apart exhausted and quite a few others then there is a half written letter already addressed to the local mp, who is a prize arsehole by the way and the kids have to fill the rest in by using the facts they got in the first sections. also my daughter asked the teacher when would they be learning the other side of the argument and the teacher said you will learn about that in a few years, my daughter has refused to do her homework and wrote on the top of the page " I think fox hunting is a good thing because the foxes kill lambs, chickens, ducks and other small animals" if her teacher says anything she is goin to the headmasters office and tell him to ring me i have half written a letter of complaint but I think i am just goin to ring the headmaster tommorow myself my daughter said that many of her friends feel the same about hunting anyway as there is still an active hunt in our village and still has huge support Quote Link to post Share on other sites
wildfowler-2007 0 Posted March 17, 2008 Report Share Posted March 17, 2008 get on to the headmaster 1st thing in the morning this teacher is trying to destroy our kid's way of life Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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