School children have been banned from putting up their hands in class when answering a question and are instead being told to raise a thumb like The Fonz.
Pupils at Burlington Junior School in Bridlington, East Yorks, have been asked to adopt the new hand signal to create a more relaxed classroom.
The children - aged eight and nine - have now been told to get the teachers attention by giving a thumbs up while cupping their hand.
But parents at the 360-pupil school have blasted the decision as daft after it was introduced at the beginning of this school year and say the clidren look like The Fonz, from the television comedy Happy Days.
Dad-of-three Dave Campleman, 44, who has two children at the school, said: I thought it was a joke at first. It's daft. I can't see the logic in it.
Fair enough if it was across the board, but I've not heard of any other schools doing it.
Full article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/educatio...hands-and-makes-them-do-The-Fonz-instead.html
Question: What are your thoughts on this ban?
Pupils at Burlington Junior School in Bridlington, East Yorks, have been asked to adopt the new hand signal to create a more relaxed classroom.
The children - aged eight and nine - have now been told to get the teachers attention by giving a thumbs up while cupping their hand.
But parents at the 360-pupil school have blasted the decision as daft after it was introduced at the beginning of this school year and say the clidren look like The Fonz, from the television comedy Happy Days.
Dad-of-three Dave Campleman, 44, who has two children at the school, said: I thought it was a joke at first. It's daft. I can't see the logic in it.
Fair enough if it was across the board, but I've not heard of any other schools doing it.
Full article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/educatio...hands-and-makes-them-do-The-Fonz-instead.html
Question: What are your thoughts on this ban?
