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

[RightUpMyRue]

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?!

eos - l rest my case.

It was probably my dads

Oh fgs. I think people have too much time on their hands these days if they worry about this!

I have just been talking to my Mum about this and she said when she ran a playgroup in the 70's the most popular item sent in for crafting (apart from loo rolls obviously ) were fag packets , hundreds and hundreds of them, can you imagine the faces now

poo spores???

LOL.

The Health and safety executive don't think there's a problem - unless they don't look clean, in which case why would you use them? common sense really.

I collect them and use them for seedlings, brilliant.

our school microwaves them! its policy apparently but at least they still let the kids use them!

Ewwww but then you have a shitty microwave

I remember crafting with my son and he was raiding the recycling for boxes and pulled out a fag packet. I tried objecting but it was just an interesting box to him. He painted it, added googly eyes and gave it to dh to keep screws in. It did feel a bit wrong though.

I thought they had protected product status for use as a craft material! Well we wouldn't have thought of using anything else in the 70s. Another thing to note In the 'things that have changed since I was a child' file.

Of course they were also de rigeur for the school gerbils...

well its not my microwave, i think its the one in the staffroom actually

Nobody commented on sugarbatty's post a page ago - have been sat here laughing to myself for 5 mins so thought it only correct to say thanks for cheering me up sugarbatty!

OP, YANBU.

Am still genuinely shocked at:

a) how many people manage to get actual poo smears on toilet roll cradboard middle (what else is getting smeared at the same time????)

b) why anyone would dream of handing it in to school for craft with actual poo smears on it!!!

Crikey, if so much poo is flying round wily nily in bathrooms, I'm surprised toilet rolls haven't been banned altogether by now. Each time you reach for a sheet of bog roll, it will already be caked in excrement. Bante bog roll.

Ban the bog roll, even.

Sorry if this has been said, but tis not the teachers' fault this has happened, as with dried macaroni, red kidney beans etc for lovely pictures, jewellery, etc, cakes baked off premises for cake sales etc, it is mantra handed down from on high.
Some brave councils, or even the occasional HT will stand up to 'Elf etc, but they are rare...

Jeesus how have most of us get to adulthood and give birth to our own kids with the stuff we were subjected to at school? How many life threatening infections must I be carrying?

The bleeding world has gone MAD I tell thee!

(Oh and I'm NEBOSH qualified, so H&S is one of my fortes - and believe me I don't have many!)

FFS, how ridiculous! DC's school still take them for projects!

Ohhh I've just remembered a good one!

DS's school won't allow egg boxes. Reason = unknown.

A few weeks ago we were asked to send child into school with an egg shell.
They came out of school clutching their egg shells which had cress seeds now planted in them

This microwaving business - isn't there a risk that the card board catches fire?how long would you nuke the tubes for?

i wondered that smile apparently its only for a few seconds tho!

BUT the Health and safety executive don't think it's an issue! they say

"The reality

This story started after a school briefly banned children from using cardboard egg boxes to make things, threatening years of Blue Peter tradition. They were concerned that children might catch salmonella.

Within a few days the school realised there was guidance from the County Council and an organisation for teachers called CLEAPSS, making clear that as long as egg boxes and toilet roll centres look clean, there is no reason why they should not be used.

Just another storm in an egg cup?"

I hope they will ban egg boxes in nursery when DS is there! And cress growing in egg shells. He has an egg allergy, that could be triggered from contact with anything egg like.
That said DD has never brought egg boxes home as part of her craft, so I can only guess they don't allow them.
They are not a necessaty, craft can easily be done with the vast array of other packaging.
I would even happily provide school with other useful craft items for all the children that will reduce DS being made poorly.

• ignore egg like - replace with - anything that has contained egg, or been in close contact with egg.

even if you hold the roll with 1 hand that hand isn't the one doing the wiping. so it makes absolutely no difference.

poo spores are everywhere as are a million other things. you dont ban kids from schools because they fart shit particles on the school grounds. I can also guarantee in everyones bathrooms you can find soap or toothbrushes or sponges flannels etc etc that people actively scrub themselves with that are surrounded by poo particles.

Some people are so unbelievably dense sometimes it really grates on me.

It's not the stupid teacher it's the stupid health and safety. If we were allowed to accept loo rolls the world would be a craftier place.