Schools in areas feared to have high rates of forced marriage are refusing to display posters on the issue because they are too hard-hitting, according to a government report.
Headteachers are unwilling to put up the posters for fear that they might offend some parents. The disclosure came in findings from the Department for Children, Schools and Families showing that 2,089 pupils were absent from school without explanation in 14 areas of England believed to have a high incidence of forced marriage.
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Schools across Britain have been ordered by local authorities to abandon the ancient tradition of serving hot cross buns at Easter so as not to offend children of non-Christian faiths.
Some councils are refusing to hand out the traditional treats because they fear that the symbol of the cross will spark complaints from Jewish, Hindu and Muslim pupils or their families.
Such enlightened people.
Comment by Techie on 3/14 @ 9:23 am #
Somewhere, Richard the Lionheart is weeping.
Comment by Rob Crawford on 3/14 @ 9:26 am #
If hot cross buns offend them, they need to turn them 45 degrees. Then they’re “hot X buns”. OK, so that sounds kinda offensive in a “adult feature” kind of way, but that’s a completely different type of offensive, right?
Comment by daleyrocks on 3/14 @ 9:27 am #
Headteachers – That’s pretty progressive right there. I don’t care what else you say. In the U.S. I haven’t heard about any school classes in oral sex unless California has started them up and we haven’t heard about them yet.
Comment by Cowboy on 3/14 @ 9:29 am #
…anyone want to speculate on how many Jews or Hindis were offended by bread?
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 3/14 @ 9:31 am #
What about the Wiccans, Zoroastrians, and Buddhists? Don’t they have the right to be offended too?
RACISTS!
Comment by cranky-d on 3/14 @ 9:34 am #
To echo Cowboy, I have not seen any Jews or Hindis who complain about this kind of thing. I don’t know why they cannot just be honest and declare Islam their official state religion and be done with it.
Comment by bergerbilder on 3/14 @ 9:39 am #
Don’t forget the Climatechangeologists and the Environmentalologists. These religions deserve to be offended, too.
Comment by TmjUtah on 3/14 @ 9:43 am #
Darkness falls.
Comment by Cowboy on 3/14 @ 9:58 am #
…hot crossed buns?
HOMOPHOBE!!!!
Comment by Jeffersonian on 3/14 @ 10:45 am #
I’m fearful we’re not surrendering fast enough. Please don’t bomb us.
Comment by PCachu on 3/14 @ 2:17 pm #
The bonus advantage of the 45-degree turn is they become Hot Theocon-Hatin’ Buns, thus granting our resident lolcat some of that desperately-craved validation.
Comment by lee on 3/14 @ 5:56 pm #
PCachu @ #11
Thats sum fnny shit rite ther.
I dnt care who u r.
Comment by SDN on 3/15 @ 5:42 am #
Sorry, guys, turning the cross into an X would simply be the St Andrews cross… no escape, infidel.
Of course, there’s 2 St Andrews and one regular cross on the Union Jack. I wonder if the flag redesign committee has met yet?
Comment by McGehee on 3/15 @ 1:22 pm #
And of course it’s the St. Andrews cross on the rebel flag that everyone goes ballistic over here in the southeastern U.S.