UK school buys hair straighteners

[Rye]

To promote more gym participation! (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/glasgow_and_west/8260716.stm)

I love this. xD

[Jessweeee♪]

o_o

[Freya]

Oh that's just funny. xD

[Little Jane]

thats awesome :p

[Aerith's Knight]

I gotta say, that was even a lame excuse to start with. :p

[Old Manus]

I was wondering which schools would have a budget liberal enough to include buying hair straighteners for pupils who refuse to do PE, then I saw that the council tax bought them. It's a wonder they managed to pass health and safety really

[Parker]

GRRREAT lets just give the bullies more weapons??!

[Unbreakable Will]

Just....wow.
Yes, improve showers, put electrical devices near water, we shall have fit women at all costs! *cough* at taxpayer expense of course...:shifty:

[Madame Adequate]

Back in my day you could just stand around on the sidelines and ignore everything/be ignored, chat with your friends. That's how you got out of PE. If someone had been like "bawww I don't wanna ruin my hair" we would have had her shaved bald by the end of the day.

[Rodarian]

Hahahaha soon they'll open up a spa right inside the girls locker room...The next step would be adding a spa for the guys!

[Breine]

:erm:


That is all.

[Kyros]

This doesnt make sense to me since I'm pretty sure the excuse now is they won't want to smell like sweat =/

[PeneloRatsbane]

blooming brats! ohh nooo my hair, school shouldn't encouarge this type of image obsessed bs.

the article says "to promote better self image" or whatever but having Fabulistic hair OMG isn't the right way to do that.

[Quindiana Jones]

I think this is fucking ridiculous. All this people need to be neutered.

[Mogi]

How did they get that passed? XD
I can't imagine a government official looking at a request like that and not laughing.

[KentaRawr!]

It seems like it might work. But it seems like they should be a bit more strict concerning physical education. :p It's definitely more important than hair.

[Laddy]

I wish my school had this.

[Markus. D]

xD!!!!!!!!!

[Heath]

Ridiculous, but I've seen bigger wastes of money in schools.

[Iceglow]

Ironic thing is, the girls might just do PE now, they might also miss 50% of their next lesson what could possibly be Maths or English or other subject vitally more important to them than PE ever will be unless they want to A) Join the military (in which case they won't care about getting sweaty or their hair being a state, thats what hairbands are for) or B) Looking in to being a personal trainer (again read subcomments on possibility a) because they'll be too busy doing their bloody hair. I know that if I wanna go somewhere and get there for 7 in the evening my girlfriend has to be getting ready prior to 5 if I am to stand a chance of getting to that place on time. A good 30 mins or so of her preparations is her straightening her hair. The education board at the council will then bitch that theres a lower attendence rate on lessons after PE by girls which then means they will take these straightening appliances away again. As per fucking usual some idiot somewhere was given power to make decisions and therefore they made a stupid one and it's at the tax payers expense. Someone please go on an assasination rampage of government and council idiot workers so we might actually elect smart people to the posts.