Schools Should Not Be Pandering to 'Yob Culture' ; Letters Here's What I Think ... Letting Children Have Time Off to Watch World Cup Game

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IT is perturbing that several Bristol schools are adjusting their hours of attendance to enable pupils to watch a televised football match, and, in some cases, even encouraging pupils to stay on the premises to do so.

Surely this is the utter antithesis of what education is supposed to be about. Schools should develop youngsters' intelligence, knowledge, personalities and social reponsibilities - not brainwash them into paying attention to something as inherently meaningless, pointless, hooliganish, time-wasting, energy-wasting, obscenely resources-wasting, and thinly-veiled racist as sport.

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Schools Should Not Be Pandering to 'Yob Culture' ; Letters Here's What I Think ... Letting Children Have Time Off to Watch World Cup Game

But that isn't the nub of the matter. What is sinister is that schools are officially authorising and hence validating ...

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