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How many times have you read about the pettiness of local bureaucratic "rules?" Or wondered how small minded actions of the few, affect the day to day lives of the many. It's not just in your country, or mine for that matter. These do-gooders are everywhere. Sometimes they exasperate me, but occasionally I do have some sympathy, but often, small simple rules need to be sold, not told.
A year or so ago, a monastery of monks of an order that was over nine hundred years old, were banned from using very high step ladders to change the light bulbs on a chandelier that had hung over the high alter of their church. Originally the chandelier was candle lit, but at about the turn of the 20th century they went over to electric. In all the time that the monks have been replacing candles or changing light bulbs, not one has so much as slipped. But for the zealots in local authority, that meant for nothing, the fact is, they 'could' have. So now the monks have no lit chandelier.
So if you come across such narrow-mindedness share it with us, better still, if there's an e-mail address that we could give support/vent to, add that.
Today's story comes from the north of England, a town called Darlington, where the head teacher of the local academy school has asked parents, mainly mothers, to wear appropriate day wear to school. Kate Chisholm, head of Skerne Park Academy, Darlington, made the appeal after she noticed an increase in the number of parents wearing nightwear to the school gates, with some even wearing pyjamas to school assemblies and meetings. Since then there has been a massive protest from parents, as well as those on social media, in the main, in support of parents.
On this occasion my sympathies are with Kate Chisholm. If you don't show by example, if you don't take pride in your appearance, then don't expect your adult child to do well when they sit in front of a perspective employer for their first job interview. What's your take on this? You can read about the story here.
A year or so ago, a monastery of monks of an order that was over nine hundred years old, were banned from using very high step ladders to change the light bulbs on a chandelier that had hung over the high alter of their church. Originally the chandelier was candle lit, but at about the turn of the 20th century they went over to electric. In all the time that the monks have been replacing candles or changing light bulbs, not one has so much as slipped. But for the zealots in local authority, that meant for nothing, the fact is, they 'could' have. So now the monks have no lit chandelier.
So if you come across such narrow-mindedness share it with us, better still, if there's an e-mail address that we could give support/vent to, add that.
Today's story comes from the north of England, a town called Darlington, where the head teacher of the local academy school has asked parents, mainly mothers, to wear appropriate day wear to school. Kate Chisholm, head of Skerne Park Academy, Darlington, made the appeal after she noticed an increase in the number of parents wearing nightwear to the school gates, with some even wearing pyjamas to school assemblies and meetings. Since then there has been a massive protest from parents, as well as those on social media, in the main, in support of parents.
On this occasion my sympathies are with Kate Chisholm. If you don't show by example, if you don't take pride in your appearance, then don't expect your adult child to do well when they sit in front of a perspective employer for their first job interview. What's your take on this? You can read about the story here.
