Baa Baa woolly sheep???

[Tissy]

Dd(3) tells me it's "not nice" to sing baa baa black sheep. Why, FFS? Surely the sheep was black wasn't it? I can't imagine any way in which the song could be construed as derogatory...

[tamum]

It makes the next line a bit redundant, too, I'd have thought

[Donbean]

You have got to be kidding with this?

[Tissy]

nope, I'm not kidding, sadly. I'm going to have serious words with nursery on Monday, unless someone tells me why I shouldn't!

[happymerryberries]

Mine sang baa baa black sheep and also sang another verse baa baa white sheep, which was realy rather sweet

[Miaou]

It's political correctness gone mad - I blame the Americans myself - AFAIK that's where the "woolly sheep" bit originated from. Load of b**cks if you ask me.

[watershipdown]

This is taking things just a tad tooooo faaaaarrrrrrrrrrr!

[Twiglett]

its ok to have 'one for the master' though I suppose

seen this before its PC-poppycock

[Miaou]

In fact I'm quite annoyed now, what do they say to your dd if she asks for a black crayon or to use the black paint? That it's "not nice" to use the word black as a descriptive word? fumefume

[motherinferior]

I am nauseatingly politically correct and I don't have a problem with 'black sheep'.

I like the alternating, I have to say.

[WideWebWitch]

Agree with everyone, totally stupid this.

[happymerryberries]

baa baa while shee have you any wool,
No sir, no sir no bags full
None to mend the blankets
and none to mend the frocks
and none to mend the little boy's holes
in his socks

Is what my two used to sing for the second verse! Used to make me smile!

[WigWamBam]

My little sister used to have to sing "Baa Baa Green Sheep", presumably so that no-one woolly would be offended.

[Twiglett]

they don't actually have black paint at our nursery (pre-school) because it is a standard phase for small children to paint something then cover it all in teh darkest colour they can find - DS was painting 'forests at night' for months and months

[MarsLady]

Oh for crying out loud. Tissy, tell them that your black (oh I'm sorry, what am I described as again?) friends take offence that the black sheep is not celebrated the way the white sheep is. Tell them we feel that the black sheep is being discriminated against and his worth is being forgotten and trashed. We don't feel he should only be celebrated occasionally, but often and proudly.

[happymerryberries]

And the Black sheep celibrated in this way is part of an Organic Workers Collective

[iota]

Marslady - the wool of the black sheep is obviously superior as has traditionally been the wool of choice in this nursery rhyme

[MarsLady]

That's right Iota. Why take away the only song to celebrate the black sheep of the Organic Workers Cooperative. We demand reinstatement.

Sing it with me girls

Baa Baa BLACK sheep.......

[cod]

Message withdrawn

[flamesparrow]

Stupid stupid stupid.

Its like what's all this with the piggies having "roast dinner" now?? Are we not allowed to be biased towards the beef???

[chipmonkey]

An African-american coffee for me please!

[Tissy]

sorry, cod, I didn't know it had been covered at length before- not all of us can spend as much time as you on here...

do you want us all to search the archives on any subject on which we feel like posting in case someone has posted something similar before?

Thanks, Marslady, I'll go in with guns blazing on Monday!

[PeachyClaire]

I got told off for this too at Nursery!! And for saying DS3 had a black eye- badly bruised apparently.