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?!

Ummmm....ok...we allow them in our primary school!

I've never seen a dodgy looking cardboard tube come in. Its a "sledgehammer to crack a nut" banning them.

Pehaps we should ban all activities, especially cooking in schools, just in case they might be a rogue germ somewhere?

I work in a nursery and we use loads of toilet roll tubes and egg boxes! I have not yet come across a shitty tube.

If it's banned in a particular school then it's down to individual teacher/head - the govt. have not given advice to ban them.

Tell the teacher you microwaved them. There is no way for teacher to check and if you had they would be sterile.

If you are covering your loo roll holder in shit when you pick it up, you need to learn how to not cover your hand in poo when you wipe what are you, two?

What pisses me right off is that urban myths like this (probably rev'd up, if not engendered, by the DM and other nutter media) started off as just that - urban myths. But they've become so widely believed that I think people at schools are going by the myth and not stopping to think. Like the whole 'baa baa black/white sheep' thing - I believe that initially, that was an entirely made-up story but a few schools decided to act on it.

Loo rolls for the animals. Kitchen rolls for the children.

I'd feel a bit icky about loo rolls, but I am a touch germ obsessive.

picking up this thread, now the manager at my nursery says we cant use kitchen roll holders, which idiot thought that one up.. or is that just another myth, whatever happened to common sense???

We are still allowed to use toilet rolls for craft/junk modelling in our school.

Common sense tells me it's gross.

I can understand loo rolls, norovirus and all that, I know my ds's aren't most hygienic, not wanting slack off the male population but you know.....

meant slag off.......

90% of all the cells in the human body (by number) are bacterial. We are more bacteria than human. Yanbu.

Hmmm, well my DD once came home from school with a lovely robot made from a KY jelly packet !

Schools are the most germ ridden places on the planet; snotty nosed kids who don't wash their hands, pick their noses, cough all over each other. You should be decontaminating them the minute they walk out the door.

Seriously, a cardboard bog roll is the least of your worries.

"DD once came home from school with a lovely robot made from a KY jelly packet !"

LOL!!!!

That really made me chuckle.

TBH one step in a school full of primary school children would remind anyone that a toilet roll would be the least worrying thing there when it comes to germs and bugs!

I'd love to know who's so inept at wiping their own arse that they're getting shit-covered fingers.

What an entertaining thread! I've been chuckling merrily away reading it!
To answer the OP, of course cardboard loo roll centres are Ok!
I can't believe that the posts about "poo spores" are serious!

PMSL at the idea of poo spores and the people who fear them

STOP THE MADNESS!

That is all.

Once again, I am amazed that I survived childhood.

In relation to the Poo spores are we supposed to wrap toothbrushes in cling film or put little hats on then when not in use?

We don't accept loo roll tubes at the nursery where I work, and initially I thought it was bonkers.

Then we had norovirus spread like wildfire a couple of months ago - at one point our sister nursery had to close as so many staff were ill they couldn't stay in ratio.

Now I'm inclined to think it's a bloody good idea not to use them.

CLEAPPS think it's OK, although do say that if the school has banned them you have to comply (they are the science Health and Safety people).

Why Dum? How would a toilet roll contribute to the spread of norovirus?