An English elementary school has started to teach its pupils how to blow their noses, and the response from parents has been a bit overwhelming and unexpected. Read on and learn more about the proper way to blow, whether you want to or not
According to
news sources, teachers at Broad Oak Primary School in Manchester, England, have been showing the children a DVD, which instructs them about the right and wrong ways to act when they have a cold. The response to asking children and their parents to look at a Kleenex-sponsored website called Sneezesafe, to help them understand cold germs and how they are spread has been overwhelmingly negative.
One parent said:
“This is a complete waste of time. I send my kids to school to learn, not for someone to show them how to blow their nose."
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Aimed at four-to six-year-olds, the DVD tells the story of two schoolchildren characters who get colds, and how they try to stop them being spread. One section entitled: ‘Tissues to the Rescue’ instructs children that one of the characters, Nathan, has a runny nose, but he knows that sniffing is not very nice. Nathan is not going to wipe his nose on his sleeve. He's going to blow his nose with a tissue. He does so by holding the tissue to his nose, breathing in, then closing his mouth and blowing his nose.
The headmistress at the school, Sheila Merchant, said:
"It is in the curriculum to teach children safe hygiene from an early age. And at this time of year, there are many cold and flu bugs around."
Perhaps the school curriculum advisors bit off more than they could… achoo?
What do YOU think about this?
