AIBU to think the cardboard tubes from loo rolls are fine for school craft projects?

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They were asked to bring in cardboard to make instruments. DD goes in with boxes and tubes galore. Her stupid teacher said no loo rolls as they're dirty and unhygienic and she binned them.

OK, they may have been in a poo zone but haven't we all?!

I don't bloody believe it! Really???? What a load of bollocks!!! Have the teachers seen the kids school toilets?

Crazy!!
Ours go straight in the gerbils' cage and they've survived so far! There are so many great things you can make with them.

oh, you mean from the tubes

Loo roll tubes for craft are essential!!

Utter rubbish. YANBU, of course. What the hell do you have to be doing to get bits of poo on the cardboard tube???

it is a myth that you cant use toilet roll inners and egg boxes - of course if they look soiled then bin them!

[[http://www.hse.gov.uk/myth/august.pdf Great health and
safety myths]]

Wonkeylegs - we were tokd not to allow DS to touch egg boxes (and she said even if they were empty) as he is lilely to have an allergic reaction. That could be why school don't want them.

My mum still has an angel for the top of her christmas tree from a loo roll tube I made when I was at playgroup. 1980's poo germs must have been different to poo germs these days..,

sure, sure give me your boxes for out crafts

Oh dear Lord no we can't have your loo roll tubes there might be poo spores on them!

they are fine after 3 months!! you can then use them as all poo woud of been eaten by the mice by then!!! maddness. if they are that dangerous I should be dead!

Ferret has obvs been in my house

Children should also be banned from school, especially infants. Sometimes they get poo on the toilet seat and they don't allways wash their hands properly.

Sometimes they have runny poo that goes all over the place.

Will someone please think of the other children and contain all small children to the house where they're not at risk of passing on germs.

It is total bollocks.

However some really daft people work in schools/for LAs that actually believe this shit and make policies.

Well... I have been in a house where they didn't actually have a toilet roll holder (could have been broken, can't remember) so they only way to unravel the paper would be to lift up the roll itself; by sticking your fingers into the tube for best grip, I leave the rest to your imagination...
There is no way I want a craft project made from one of them coming home to decorate my mantelpiece, thanks all the same.

How on Earth does the cardboard tube get caked in poo???

Any miniscule poo particles will also be covering the children, their clothes, their hair etc etc and are completely unavoidable.

Somone should've told Ozzy that. Instead of having to bite the head off a bat he could've just licked a loo roll on stage and everyone would have known just what a crazy mofo he was.

Yabu but only because you have never cleaned my elderly fathers dirty old Steptoe that he is flat.

I always wear rubber gloves from when l enter flat to when l leave when throwing out his toilet roll holder collection as he insists on holding it with his fingers through the middle bit obviously as there are often 'smears' on inside of them.

One day l know the voices will make me say 'You dirty old man'

grrrrr.

YANBU.

Good grief. I have a child who is immuno-suppressed and loo rolls are mandatory for craft making in this house. Other family members donate theirs too. I have never thought twice about it.

You can zap them in the microwave, you know.

Spatsky x posts. Hope that answers your question.
I think the problem occurs when these 'finger slot holders' go in for their second helping of loo roll.

Bleughhh.

YABU, OP. Poo spores get everywhere. Everywere.

I am really slack usually but I wouldn't thank you for your old loo rolls

Quite another thing if your own dc's are crafting at home.

YABU. DD 1 once brought home a snowman made with toilet roll tube, cotton wool, an a ping pong ball. I admired it told her we'd put it on top of the tree at Christmas, turned it upside down to put on said tree and saw a poohey finger print smeared on the inside, and it wasn't a child's print either. Use kitchen roll tubes instead.

Well exactly eos YUCK!

YANBU - but I have never come across a poo-smeared one yet