Rude Rhyme

[d000hg]

BBC News - Sussex teacher reprimanded over 'racist rhyme'

They don't include it, what was this filthy filth he half-told them?

[OwlHoot]

Didn't take long to find - here

Anyway, it sounds like an injustice if this teacher was simply repeating a mnemonic that had been undoubtedly used by others in the past.

[xoggoth]

Except the first word was as resistor colour. Hardly polical correctness gone mad to object to that in a school.

[shaunbhoy]

BBC News - Sussex teacher reprimanded over 'racist rhyme'

They don't include it, what was this filthy filth he half-told them?

If I remember my old Electronics theory, it will have related to the colour coding system used to rate resistors.

This is basically Black Brown Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Violet Grey White

The old codger will have fallen foul of the old "Black Barstewards rape our young girls but virgins grow wise" maxim that was oft times chanted out in many a classroom in days of yore.............unless I've missed my guess.

HTH

[suityou01]

Bye Bye Rosie Off You Go Bristol Via Great Western

[TykeMerc]

If I remember my old Electronics theory, it will have related to the colour coding system used to rate resistors.

This is basically Black Brown Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Violet Grey White

The old codger will have fallen foul of the old "Black Barstewards rape our young girls but virgins grow wise" maxim that was oft times chanted out in many a classroom in days of yore.............unless I've missed my guess.

HTH

That's what jumped straight to my mind too, but that's the mnemonic I was taught and it stuck which is exactly what it's supposed to do.

It's not politically correct, but it's very effective.

[d000hg]

Except the first word was as resistor colour. Hardly polical correctness gone mad to object to that in a school.

I think it is in order he got in trouble since it mentions rape, rather than some 'harmless' stereotype.
The fact he was reprimanded rather than fired and banned from teaching means this is fair in my view. I'd like to think the school will keep him on based on his past reputation since he's near retirement anyway.

[EternalOptimist]

political correctness gone mad. I havent read the link or anything, and I dont have a clue what its all about, but it's polical correctness gone mad.

where will it all end ?

thats what I want to know

[suityou01]

political correctness gone mad. I havent read the link or anything, and I dont have a clue what its all about, but it's polical correctness gone mad.

where will it all end ?

thats what I want to know

We're all doomed and will soon all be out on the street rummaging through diseased piles of rotting refuse in some kind of Mad Max world.

Bagsy the razor boomerang and the car.

[EternalOptimist]

We're all doomed and will soon all be out on the street rummaging through diseased piles of rotting refuse in some kind of Mad Max world.

he heh