To be furious over 'ba ba spotty sheep'

[Littlesmiler]

As the title really! My DD started school nursery in September, and this past week, when she has been at home and singing nursery rhymes with us, she's been singing baa baa spotty sheep as opposed to black sheep.

We have always sang the 'black sheep' version as it's what myself and DP learned when we were little and as it is the 'proper' version. All the family sing the classic version also, as is traditional. So the only place that's singing this ridiculous version is school.

I just can't believe they're changing a kiddy nursery rhyme that's been around for god knows how long, as someone somewhere has deemed it inappropriate? I'd love to know why- as black sheep are an actual thing! Would it be the same if it was 'white sheep'? Probably not.

Just so annoyed, probably being irrational as I've had the implant out after 3 years and having my first visit from Mother Nature 🙈

AIBU to just want classic nursery rhymes to stay as the classic version??

All the family sing the classic version also

loving the image of the whole family sitting around singing Baa Baa Black Sheep!

srslylikeomg not sure you'd fit. After all sarcasm is the lowest form of wit 😂😂😂

By your reckoning, you want to keep things traditional and classic?

Therefore there would be no implant and you would have 40 DC by now

TheGruffaloMother it was a thing though at my school. I was there and witnessed it!! I'm only 26 so not even that long ago!

Oh, I'm not denying that you experienced it in your school! My point is that the person who implemented it in your school had heard it and failed to check if it was genuinely 'a thing' that they had to do. They instead just implemented it unquestioningly, giving many of you (and all of your parents) the impression that it was now considered politically incorrect to sing the traditional version. It didn't come from the council or any official body. It is a myth that a lot of people have accepted as fact, to the extent where it has made its way into the education system.

Apparently in the 80s, children used to sing "the ink is spotty, the page is spotty, together we learn to read and use the potty".

And Michael Jackson's song has been changed to 'you can be my baby/it don't matter if you're spotty of white"

And Amy Whinehouse's famous album is now called Back To Spotty.

Sweartogod.

gosh are you being deliberately obtuse - I meant evidence that is had been changed because someone thought it was inappropriate

Why does it matter if they sing pink sheep?

Do you have a problem with Twinkle Twinkle Chocolate Bar and Sleeping Crocodiles too?

Why would anyone assume a nursery rhyme had been banned or deemed inappropriate just because a child sings a new version/verse? So bizarre.

Why is it that one cannot post something on mumsnet without being subjected to keyboard warrior attacks, from dedicated keyboard warriors that have nothing better to do? I hear the police are taking on 'specials'. You'd all do a bloody brilliant job of throwing you're overweight lazy keyboard asses around!

When I was training as a nursery nurse 20 mumble years ago they tried this (Rochdale if anyone's interested) - it was a family centre in a very multi cultural area. It lasted a week before the balloon went up and the parents complained in droves - the smaller children had just learnt one version and then because of some new diktat from above we had to teach them a new multi coloured version... It didn't go well.
However since then I've heard and sung all sorts of colours and even had a few noisy sheep over the years!

Bingo!

I've never understood why the word black should be considered demeaning in this nursery rhyme. I wonder if the rhyme had been "ba ba white sheep" the word "white" would have been offensive. I think it's offensive to black people that the word "black" should be deemed such an awful word that it had to be removed, if that makes sense.

OP seriously lost her shit

Good God , it's just A DIFFERENT VERSION!!!

The fact that your 3yo is singing it is not evidence of political correctness gone mad, it is evidence that THERE IS A DIFFERENT VERSION!

I have sung the spotty sheep version to many 3 year olds. I did it because IT MADE THEM LAUGH not because someone told me I would be racist otherwise.

to be honest if you start a thread asking AIBU about something people will answer - and maybe ask for more information

but occasionally the OP doesn't like the answers or is being a goady fucker and starts pouting and shouting bully

was always the way

I have my lingo bingo card

They sing Baa Baa Woolly Sheep at our nursery

I was helping and not bashing you. The lolling was in regards to the 2 little piggies running next door to the third piggy. just so you know, am using the lolling only because of another thread and I thought best continue the joke. Lol.

I have no interest in your family tree or history. You posted it and used it to explain why you can't be racist. Without using the word racist. So, I thought I should point it out that it's not in good form because people will assume you are.
anyone who uses half cast in this day and age needs to a rethink why they think it's ok to even use it on themselves if you say are. Whether you are black or white. Think about it, Half-caste is a term for a category of people of mixed race or ethnicity. It is derived from the term caste, which comes from the Latin castus, meaning pure, and the derivative Portuguese and Spanish casta, meaning race.

I actually think, for someone who is mixed race would use that as first line instead of listing all the world relations before themselves.

I was going to hide this thread after posting this but the other examples are too funny to miss.

Yeh! As if black people cant be horrible at each other.

my 8 year old likes me to make up songs about my cats wearing pants

it does not mean I am OFFENDED by the sight of naked cats

hth

Oh. For. God's. Sake.

This is a non-issue. Certainly nothing deserving of "fury" IMO. Children's songs with new verses? To the barricades!

You'd all do a bloody brilliant job of throwing you're overweight lazy keyboard asses around!

It's your overweight, lazy keyboard asses.

Why is it that one cannot post something on mumsnet without being subjected to keyboard warrior attacks, from dedicated keyboard warriors that have nothing better to do? I hear the police are taking on 'specials'. You'd all do a bloody brilliant job of throwing you're overweight lazy keyboard asses around!

I take grave exception to this. It's Decwmber 20th and I have plenty of better things to do. I'm just procrastinating self-sacrificingly taking the time to reassure the OP she needn't worry about her little one's nursery. I think I deserve a medal, frankly.

It is ridiculous. It is as ridiculous as making teachers say chalk board instead of black board and not being PC using the word black bag ffs

yes that is ridiculous - and totally untrue

Ahickie

Aaaargh Noooo! You feel into the traaaaap!

also, I don't like asses. It's arses

I'd struggle to throw my overweight ass to be honest - also it might be deemed animal cruelty

will no one think of the ASS