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bohunt is failing our children - concerned parent (19th Jun 2024 - 06:46:44) To all members of the Liphook community (and Bohunt leadership themselves), I am so completely disappointed in how Bohunt student have been treated, especially recently. I have two children at the school and have grown more and more concerned to how their basic needs are being met there. The toilets, firstly, are, 9/10 times, in inhumane conditions and students are unable to use them. No locks on doors, toilet seats that no one in their right mind would sit on, horrible smells and 'situations' inside the cubicles, not to mention no taps and soap, just those 'three-in-one' units that rarely work. At least during COVID they were concerned about hygiene. Secondly, the canteen is overpriced and most of the food holds no nutritional value. Allowing children to stuff themselves with undercooked cake and £2.50 cheese paninis will hardly suffice for a full day of learning. I'm sick of Bohunt doing the bare minimum when it comes to most things and still being considered a respectable school because of the few good things they do. I was quite pleased to learn they were rated 'good' - hopefully it will motivate them to do better. These pupils are childen, but still people and need to be treated as such and have basic needs met. Yours sincerely, a very concered parent

Re: bohunt is failing our children - upset (19th Jun 2024 - 18:50:30) I totally agree with this statement, the state of Bohunt School at the moment is shocking. As someone whos younger cousin attends this school, i believe the conditions of the facilities at bohunt are appalling and something needs to be done about it .

Re: bohunt is failing our children - Local (19th Jun 2024 - 19:34:30) It's a state school, it looks after the masses kids, if you don't like it send them private, the tax payer can't afford to pay any more! As for dinner, give them organic tofu and celery bake when they get home, meanwhile sandwiches will suffice! How much do you pay, I'd personally make parents pay at least part of the fees of their kids education according to means, those who can afford it could at least be charged a percentage! What with the collapse in the UK's global financial rankings we're all going to have to muck in more! I know parents who expect the state to pay for their kids education yet still take foreign holidays and send them to private classes and groups after school, yet we don't go away anywhere, I don't mind because there's enough people around the world in more need, we are doing so well in comparison!

Re: bohunt is failing our children - Joe (19th Jun 2024 - 20:51:44) I read the Liphook Herald and they reported that the school was rated outstanding in all but 2 areas. Does not seem as if the inspectors were there for very long!

Re: bohunt is failing our children - passfield resident (20th Jun 2024 - 09:55:07) Concerned parent-what did the school say when you raised this with them?

Re: bohunt is failing our children - D (20th Jun 2024 - 11:26:54) Surely by the age of eleven a child is able to use the toilet correctly and clean up any mess after themselves, instead of leaving it for someone else to do. I don't see why the school should be blamed for this.

Re: bohunt is failing our children - Adrian W (20th Jun 2024 - 14:36:14) Unfortunately due to the amount of differently-abled children now attending the school resources are limited and have had to be deployed to employ additional staffing to support these children. It's hard and not an issue that is going away anytime soon as local council is pushing more and more for schools to take differently-abled children under the illusion that it's a more cost effective solution to having them bused into a central location as was previous way of managing the situation, this is a ticking timebomb of an issue which will cost us all more in the long run.

Re: bohunt is failing our children - Richard (20th Jun 2024 - 14:43:47) This new approach is now being adopted at the local primary school too. There are differently-abled children now attending where as before they were bused off to central location with adequate support to help them. This new way of dealing with the situation has created some issues as the schools don’t have changing facilities for the kids as they are not toilet trained.

Re: bohunt is failing our children - Dave L (20th Jun 2024 - 14:57:30) How can a child get to the age of 5 and not be toilet trained? Are we living in Victorian times and children are being raised in work houses? Maybe Kier and Rishi's big party pledge should have been parenting classes for everyone and if you don't pass then no procreation allowed.

Re: bohunt is failing our children - passfield resident (20th Jun 2024 - 15:15:58) Good god. What is this country coming to? It's not enough for us to be blaming immigrants for our (largely self-inflicted) troubles-now we're blaming disabled kids for the state of the school loos. Incredible.

Re: bohunt is failing our children - Ricardo (20th Jun 2024 - 16:49:23) The point seems to be lost on Passfield Resident, no one is pointing the finger at the differently-abled children for the state of the toilets in the school, after all if they're not toilet trained then they wouldn't be using them, the point is that resource is having to be placed elsewhere instead of providing good food and toilet facilities due to some parents sending their children into an environment that is that not designed to support their individual needs and the school trying to provide unfunded support. Some parents spend a lot of time and energy in getting an appropriate label for their special child so the family feel like they fit in to society and then do everything possible to work against the system and insist that they attend a normal school with normal children which is where the issue is. If your child's needs are outside the normal scope a main stream school can provide then they should attend an alternative school that is designed to provide the level of support that is required and funded accordingly so as not to impact the other children attending the school.

Re: bohunt is failing our children - Sam (20th Jun 2024 - 17:27:00) Maybe the solution is very simple - Option 1 - If you have a differently-abled child you send them on a bus to a school specially designed and funded to support and give them the best start in life. Option 2 - If you have a normal child you send them to the local state school without having to use a bus. It's no wonder the public finances are in such a mess with the unnecessary drain being placed upon them by people chancing their arm. You can be special in a special school you don't need to be disruptive in a main stream school and take from the normal children as this is unfair.

Re: bohunt is failing our children - passfield resident (20th Jun 2024 - 17:36:04) Ricardo-your use of the word "normal" gives the game away. You don't know your a*** from your elbow as my mother used to say.

Re: bohunt is failing our children - Dave L (20th Jun 2024 - 17:41:36) Being a child is hard enough these days. My 6 year old came home last week and advised that one of the kids who was a girl is now a boy, I didn’t know where to begin to explain it. I had to advise him that it’s not possible and that the child is a little mixed up at the moment maybe due to issues happening at home. Now they’ll be expected to try and understand what a Syndrome is and the different types of disability and how it affects little Johnny differently to little Franky!

Re: bohunt is failing our children - J (20th Jun 2024 - 18:21:12) And if there is no suitable alternative school or if none of the alternative schools have places available, what then? We have a chronic shortage of specialist school places currently. Even if a child's EHCP specifies that they should be educated at a specialist school, if there are no places available then mainstream is the only option for many. BBC Panorama covered this issue a few months ago. I think the programme was called SEND Help.

Re: bohunt is failing our children - Geoff (20th Jun 2024 - 19:09:59) Local: I think you’ve hit upon a fantastic idea, charging those who can afford it more than others for their basic entitlements in this country, including as you say, education for their children. Perhaps we could incorporate it into our tax system somehow? Maybe we could introduce some kind of banding where those that earn more pay a higher percentage of their income or something?

Re: bohunt is failing our children - Ricardo (20th Jun 2024 - 20:31:14) As they say in Passfield “High sixes to everyone”. If you chase a label it takes away one’s normality. You can’t have it every which way Passfield Resident.

Re: bohunt is failing our children - Hmm (20th Jun 2024 - 21:02:28) Let me guess most people attempting to lecture us about the disruption caused by 'differently abled children' have about zero real world experience on the matter, I doubt there's too many doctors and nurses typing out these gems! I really don't think you know it all . The reality is more likely that the vast majority of persistently disruptive kids in school are 'average,' typical of the average self righteous opinionated Trump voter even and it's also worth pointing out that most prisoners don't have special needs but do have a distinct disability to experience empathy or analyse blame, blaming others and often ensnaring the weaker into their criminality, the weaker becoming victims. But thanks for all of your great insights based no doubt upon years of 'above average' academic research into education and understanding and empathy of special needs, I'm sure our society will be all the better for it😂😂

Re: bohunt is failing our children - Richard (20th Jun 2024 - 21:40:24) In Donald Trump and the Lord Jesus Christ we trust! If everyone believed in these two great men more we wouldn’t have this mess we all find ourselves in.

Re: bohunt is failing our children - D (20th Jun 2024 - 22:51:35) I'm obviously missing something here but there is no mention of special needs or "differently abled" (is this a new phrase) children in the opening paragraph. The way I read it, the person is referring to the children as a whole.

Re: bohunt is failing our children - Richard (21st Jun 2024 - 17:36:46) Differently abled is the new word we use to make everyone feel equal and normal.

Re: bohunt is failing our children - Sam (21st Jun 2024 - 22:47:04) But they’re not normal or equal is this not the main point of the whole commentary? They are creating a greater financial burden on our already struggling state schools and not getting on the bus to the specialist school created to support them as their loving parents want them to experience a normal school life. The whole thing is a joke, why seek out a label and then try to work against the system that’s in place to take that label.

Re: bohunt is failing our children - Joe (22nd Jun 2024 - 11:04:56) It is not usually the parents or the school wanting differently abled children in the mainstream schools. My niece was told her child needed a special school but a) the local authorities do not like having to pay for the places and b) the places themselves are so scarce so it does not happen.

Re: bohunt is failing our children - er (22nd Jun 2024 - 13:40:58) Sam and all the other geniuses on here, what is your experience on this (or anything for that matter?), I'd love to know what awesome wordly experience makes you so wise, especially as they relate to the issue of Bohunt toilet cleaning! The thread 'was' about dirty toilets and unless your the Bohunt toilet inspectors, I fail to see how you would know which kids are leaving them dirty, their disability levels or what the school are doing about it! Also great TalkBack sages, can you actually describe what is a normal child, in particular with regard to toilet use at Bohunt? Is it IQ, is it physical health, mental wellbeing, trauma, language, ethnicity, is it the parents social status, is it their musical ability, ability to play chess, is it a child who survived medical treatment and is now in poor health, what is it you're thinking about and what is it with your new buzzword no one's ever heard of before 'differently abled children' Come on Sam of TalkBack, we crave more of your deep wisdom and knowledge!

Re: bohunt is failing our children - Sam (22nd Jun 2024 - 15:24:10) Well er (clearly not your name!). Normal would be someone who doesn’t have the word Syndrome assigned to them. I’m guessing by your tone you’re one of the parents who craved and desperately seeked a label for your little one and now you want them in the main stream school environment.

Re: bohunt is failing our children - Richard (22nd Jun 2024 - 16:23:19) The thread was about the state of the facilities at Bohunt and that the lack of ongoing investment in the catering services was due to monies having to be spent elsewhere due to the amount children who now have labels and conditions assigned to them as a byproduct of absent parenting. As it’s easier to get a label and have this assigned to your child than actually parent them and discipline them appropriately. You need a license to own a dog but anyone can have a child!

Re: bohunt is failing our children - Mason (22nd Jun 2024 - 17:21:29) Statistically there are far less people born locally with a Syndrome recently due to people moving in from outside the area and less native marriages taking place.

Re: bohunt is failing our children - Debra (22nd Jun 2024 - 19:30:29) Hi , I’m not at all concerned about the food . But the toilets are disgusting . My child has come home from school and rushed upstairs for the toilet as my child wont use them . The things I have been told about the toilets in what state they are in . How disgusting . My child has a medical condition and would need to use the toilet . I think I will in fact take it further as it’s not fair for my child and any child to not have clean toilet facilities within the school . It is a shame . Whom are the ones that are making it like this too needs to be stopped . The school has rapidly gone down hill . Private school is an option now but my child has been there for a few years now and I wouldn’t want to disrupt that .

Re: bohunt is failing our children - D (22nd Jun 2024 - 20:53:33) I would like to take the credit for being the first to notice the opening paragraph is largely about the state of the toilets at Bohunt and not child mental illness. I do wonder if they are any worse than they were when I was there over forty years ago, maybe we weren't as easily offended in those days, I don't know. However, fearing public condemnation for being in the minority I will just go with the flow and talk about child mental illness (or any other ism of your choice). When I was at school there were probably five or six what then would have been termed "problem children" which now may be called A.D.H.D. or one of rhe.many other childhood mental illnesses which seem.to.have proliferated in recent years. My question is simply, why are there now so many, and why are parents so eager to have their child diagnosed as such. I frequently hear the phrase "we're waiting for a (take your pick) diagnosis". Surely any parent would do all they can to prevent such diagnosis. Is it now the fashion or is it a financial incentive, I do know that the two child benefit cap does not apply if a child has such a diagnosis. Is it really good for any child to have such a label at such a young age? It could be a millstone round their necks for the rest of their lives.

Re: bohunt is failing our children - er (23rd Jun 2024 - 00:03:59) D, the OP was talking about toilets, but for some reason people are far more fascinated with children's medical diagnosis than the state of their toilets. It is commonly known that male toilets are much more disgusting places than female, or at least this was the case most of my life (may have changed now as girls become more blokeish), can we therefore add being male to our 'problem children' list, is everyone happy with that, bus them off somewhere and leave the girls in peace! Because if the kids with special needs are bring taught elsewhere, it must be the kids without those needs who are messing up Bohunt's loos, no? D, if you noticed your child was struggling to walk or breathe etc, you'd go to the doctor or hospital, you'd be praying it was all going to be fine, and if it turned out it wasn't, you'd hope that they could get the care they needed, you'd find a way to be strong, you wouldn't go looking for D necessarily to tell him, but you wouldn't keep it a terrible secret either, thankfully those days are gone and I'm sorry so many neanderthals are still having trouble getting it. Let's sum it up, if parents and schools notice their child struggling, parents worry, it's reviewed by the teachers, in some cases medical advice is sought if an issue is defined (can sometimes be really hard with mental health), care is offered, it's between the kids and their family and the school and the medical staff, if you go in for a hip replacement or cancer treatment at 80, I'm not sitting at home questioning it or wondering why my money is being wasted on you when i could have had some potholes fixed, because I'm not a doctor to make those calls, personally I put child health above all else, maybe that's just me.

Re: bohunt is failing our children - D (23rd Jun 2024 - 07:53:53) I agree with everything you say, er. I am merely asking why child mental health has been on the increase and what is society doing wrong which has facilitated this. It can't help a child's mental wellbeing when they see their teachers go on strike and they are being taught there are more two genders for example. I do feel that a lot of mental health issues (adults as well) are what used to be the trials of everyday life which we just used to get on with. I do feel there is a tendency to look for something to be stressed about when we really have nothing to be stressed about at all. But this is all far removed from the opening paragraph concerning the toilets of Bohunt School. Personally I am always grateful for any loo in times of need, condition matters not. Maybe I'm one of these neanderthals who aren't fussy enough.

Re: bohunt is failing our children - Mason (23rd Jun 2024 - 13:11:14) The real question here is should children with special needs and not toilet trained be allowed into mainstream schooling and reading through the above it’s a clear no. They should stick to schools better equipped for their additional needs and not be taking from the underfunded state school as it takes from the majority.

Re: bohunt is failing our children - Kelly (23rd Jun 2024 - 13:55:47) It’s alarming that our children’s education and welfare is being put at risk due to some parents putting their children in the wrong school. What can we do to address this situation? Do we need to approach the school and insist that these children are forced to attend the school which is able to deal with them.

Re: bohunt is failing our children - local (23rd Jun 2024 - 16:42:58) I think you'll find the state sector is non selective, so writing to them complaining about their admission criteria won't get anybody kicked out, we used to have grammars for the minority of bright, clever kids but Labour was offended, mainly because it was rich parents kids who passed the test (having had private tuition!) so your only option is to go private, if you the parents worked hard and succeeded at school you'll be earning enough, employers will be crying out for you, it's worth whatever it costs to get your kids out of these state schools if you care about their achievement, it's your responsibility not the states, the state provides a safety net, not a private education, the rich need basically educated shop staff and plumbers, if your stuck in the state sector cycle, get rich parents then your laughing!

Re: bohunt is failing our children - D (23rd Jun 2024 - 17:20:19) This is why we used to have streaming, all taught in the same school but the less abled didn't hold back the more abled. Referring to grammar schools, you still had to pass an interview even if you passed the exams, so yes, it did depend on what your parents did.

Re: bohunt is failing our children - passfield resident (23rd Jun 2024 - 17:23:26) What a ridiculous, narrow minded and ignorant debate this is. Some of the views here are intolerant, some are a bit nasty. I know for a fact that schools are having to deal with far more young children who aren't toilet trained , more often than not because their parents haven't bothered. We seem to have a nasty blame culture going in this country ( or else maybe on Liphook Talkback) that is too quick to blame schools. This started off being a thread about Bohunt, which is a good school. Before Bohunt children from Liphook mostly went to Mill Chase. Bohunt is a vast improvement on that.

Re: bohunt is failing our children - Kelly (23rd Jun 2024 - 18:33:25) Heading off a special bus every morning to school would be a right old adventure, every day would like being on a mystery tour. Or even better think of all those happy faces heading off every Monday morning and back on a Friday evening, the excitement would be amazing.

Re: bohunt is failing our children - passfield resident (23rd Jun 2024 - 18:35:34) D-you are wrong. I passed the 11 plus and went to grammar school. No interview, and what my parents did wasn't a factor (they were working class people and I grew up on a council estate). Same thing with other children from the estate I lived on.

Re: bohunt is failing our children - Sam (23rd Jun 2024 - 19:00:59) Surely some learning from Covid and the importance of hygiene and contamination would result in anyone who would be dribbling to be sent to a school that would have a good disinfecting regime in place. Clearly this wouldn’t appear to be Bohunt but a special school to meet people with special needs. How would you explain to someone who is differently-abled social distancing. It’s surely safer to have them all in one building and not spread across the area.

Re: bohunt is failing our children - passfield resident (23rd Jun 2024 - 19:33:22) Sam-is your last post supposed to be funny or are you either nasty or mad?

Re: bohunt is failing our children - L (23rd Jun 2024 - 19:40:16) Wow.....some of these comments are disgusting!! Put yourselves in the shoes of the parents that do have children with struggles then you may change your views!! We have children with different struggles and that's not down to bad parenting as one person suggested. We have a child with ADHD and one under Great Ormond Street due to getting very poorly. A child with ADHD does not necessarily need to be be in a SEN school and put on a "special bus"!!! A child with medical needs and not toilet trained fully before they start school.....they too do not need to go to a "special" school. All children are different. This post was raising concerns for the state of the toilets and the price of the food.....I know my child (with struggles) wouldn't dare leave the toilets in the state they are in, he finds it disgusting!! Shame we can't all be perfect as the majority of you clearly are! We fight for our children, to get them the best they need and deserve, yet reading this thread we are labelled to be bad parents.

Re: bohunt is failing our children - Sam (23rd Jun 2024 - 19:45:56) @ Passfield, I’m very serious as I have relatives who are vulnerable and unnecessary spreading of illnesses if preventable would be good for the wider community. There’s far too much focus about the special people, what about us the normal ones. Who’s going to protect us?

Re: bohunt is failing our children - L (23rd Jun 2024 - 19:52:33) Sam.....you are clearly a vile person!! This thread has gone too far now. Editor maybe needs to step in.

Re: bohunt is failing our children - D (23rd Jun 2024 - 20:37:14) Passfield President, MAY have had to sit an interview. Though well before my time the information I give relating to 11+ is what my teachers told me, and you teachers don't want to argue amongst yourselves, do you?

Re: bohunt is failing our children - M.O (23rd Jun 2024 - 20:38:38) Oh dear Sam ! What planet are you really on, obviously not a real one, what on earth do you think you need protecting from, Do you honestly think you are going to catch something from the so called “special” people, bit of dribble is not going to hurt you ! You clearly need to get back into your hole and stay there, you vile individual. Editor I think it’s time this thread is removed, and Sams email address from being able to make these disgusting comments, from which I can see they have done the same thing on other threads, making derogatory comments about others !!!!

Re: bohunt is failing our children - Mason (23rd Jun 2024 - 21:32:27) What’s disturbing here is that Sam’s concerns are being swept aside almost like an inconvenience. Is this not the underlying theme of the whole thread , the average normal persons concerns being pushed aside to cater to the minority. Having a disability or label doesn’t give someone a license to railroad over others concerns. Shame on you all.

Re: bohunt is failing our children - Kelly (23rd Jun 2024 - 21:43:10) @ L, someone raises a concern from their personal point of view and you just want to shut them down. That’s vile and Sam has a right to raise his/her concerns about his/her personal circumstances as they are equally important from their side.

Re: bohunt is failing our children - L (23rd Jun 2024 - 22:16:56) Everyone if course is entitled to their opinion and they have every right to be concerned for their own personal reasons. What is not right is the way children with struggles are being written about in this thread and parents being labelled as bad parents.

Re: bohunt is failing our children - D (24th Jun 2024 - 08:04:17) I am inclined to agree with Sam and Mason. As with homosexuality and sex change operations, what used to be a small minority is now fast becoming the new normal. Indeed, the law forbids us to say anything against what used to be illegal, instead demanding we accept it as perfectly normal and natural. I am more concerned, for the sake of future generations, to identify the causes of child mental illness. Is it what we eat? Are children disappointed because they don't live up to the unrealistic ideals they see on the internet? Is it a result of parents and teachers no longer being able to discipline children? Is it genetic? Are children actually being encouraged to have some form of mental illness? After all, how many people are employed in child mental health? I'm sure if it's your job new customers are always welcome. With the ever increasing numbers of child mental health referrals, we must be careful that the more abled aren't held back by the less abled to make the less abled feel more abled, this will do them no favours in adulthood and the workplace. If there are parents who are either incapable of unwilling to toilet train their children, should they be having children in the first place?

Re: bohunt is failing our children - passfield resident (24th Jun 2024 - 08:50:31) D- I don't see the word "may " in your earlier post ( in capitals or otherewise). I think you have misquoted yourself

Re: bohunt is failing our children - D (24th Jun 2024 - 12:26:29) Absolutely correct, Passfield Resident. Nothing escapes your red pen does it?

Re: bohunt is failing our children - passfield resident (24th Jun 2024 - 15:23:10) D. Oh dear-perhaps you have had bad experiences with teachers in the past. I hope the bad dreams stop one day and you can lead a normal life.

Re: bohunt is failing our children - Adrian W (24th Jun 2024 - 16:29:15) There'll be high sixes all around in the Passfield Resident household tonight after that clever comment! Clearly Passfield Resident doesn't like anyone who doesn't have the same view as them and will shoot anyone down who has an apposing viewpoint. I suppose there's nothing much else to do in Passfield other then tap on a keyboard anonymously for ones self pleasure.

Re: bohunt is failing our children - passfield resident (24th Jun 2024 - 17:09:43) Adrian-you can't be very busy yourself. It's "opposing", by the way.

Re: bohunt is failing our children - D (24th Jun 2024 - 17:14:58) On the contrary, Passfield Resident. My teachers were EXCELLENT. It was only later the left wing loonies got in and they started letting their pupils down by going on strike and teaching children there are more than two genders. There were no teacher training days in my day, it was done in school holiday time. What subject did you teach?

Re: bohunt is failing our children - Local (24th Jun 2024 - 17:49:08) Hey, is that you Adrian Bananas or another one, I get all the Adrian's mixed up in this site! Looking back I'd say we're indulging too much in some of the classic ''blame the different kids' tropes... I'm surprised someone from Bohunt hasn't replied to defend the reputation of their most vulnerable children, does anyone have the slightest real proof who is doing it, is the school or anyone from it reading this community page, can we expect a statement? What next on talkback... who knows, maybe 'PTSD isn't a thing either' Bad news for abused women, ex servicemen living rough and of course kids with naughty parents demanding diagnosis! I go to a lot of events, concerts, festivals, pubs, restaurants etc, normal 'cool' places and it seems once in a pack no 'adult' can either pick up their rubbish or use the loos, have you seen the discarded plastic and food waste at these places, is it all disabled kids? Funnily enough you don't get this at the opera or in private schools, so maybe it is a class thing after all? And I've watched dog walker after dog walker drop their highly toxic waste bags on the grass rather than take it home because the bin is clearly not just full, but overflowing, do dog walkers all have 'isms' too, maybe we all need these buses, if we can just look and see where blame actually lies, that's scary, because maybe it's people like ourselves... I suppose we'll all be voting reform, convinced they 'represent' normal Britain. Of course nowadays everybody can write what ever opinions come into their mind, glad of the attention, I know we must support that and yet, I really think we are all doomed to repeat history on an endless mad human loop till the planet is finally destroyed, in a quick time we have invented so much (in large part thanks to those different kids with 'isms'!) yet most of us evolved so little!

Re: bohunt is failing our children - passfield resident (24th Jun 2024 - 18:06:16) I see your views on education clearly. I was actually old school-discipline in class, expecting pupils to work hard, respect other pupils and adults.

Re: bohunt is failing our children - Adrian W (24th Jun 2024 - 18:26:04) I’m guessing Passfield Resident was an expert in teaching gender identification at their school. And on inset days attended courses on minorities in the community. Over and out my six toe friend from Passfield.

Re: bohunt is failing our children - Sam (24th Jun 2024 - 20:16:54) Is Passfield Talkback offline at the moment given we have been graced with words of wisdom from our six fingered Passfield Resident friend?

Re: bohunt is failing our children - passfield resident (24th Jun 2024 - 21:11:10) Adrian and Sam. You are cowardly internet warriors who wouldn't say boo to a goose in real life. I stopped looking at this forum for a while because it is used by some of the local half wits. I don't know why I started again but you win-I'm going to keep off it because the unbelieveable ignorance of some people is depressing.

Re: bohunt is failing our children - Rey (24th Jun 2024 - 21:59:06) It’s remarkable how many ignorant and sad people have responded to this thread. MAYBE the reason mental illness, homosexuality, gender change is more normalised is because people aren’t afraid of being beaten in the streets or locked up just for being different from what’s considered ‘the norm’ (who decides who that is by the way?!). Children who have life challenges different from those more fortunate don’t have enough support, schools are over stretched and staff are having to deal with situations they’re not trained for. It’s not lazy parenting or bad schools, it’s a poor infrastructure and intolerant humans fuelling it. If the world didn’t evolve with change. We’d still be beheading people in the streets for entertainment. Maybe some of you would be better off in that period of time!

Re: bohunt is failing our children - D (24th Jun 2024 - 23:14:15) Rey, I don't consider mental illness, homosexuality and gender change as the world evolving, quite the opposite.

Re: bohunt is failing our children - passfield resident (25th Jun 2024 - 19:29:30) D-I apologise for a cheap and snide remark I made in this thread. I'm going to stop looking at Talkback because it obviously brings out the worst in me.

Re: bohunt is failing our children - D (25th Jun 2024 - 20:03:22) I forgive you, Passfield Resident. Don't worry about it.

Re: bohunt is failing our children - Bush (25th Jun 2024 - 20:47:36) Totally agree with you D none of these illnesses or conditions are a sign of world evolution, definitively a sign of civilisation taking two steps back.

Re: bohunt is failing our children - Me (26th Jun 2024 - 01:32:50) So should we all now accept that Hitler and his pals were right on this, those regressive different people,😱😱😱 I for one hope not, because if he was, then maybe he was right on the other stuff and difference is to be feared, you will all comply, understand!! Oh dear I don't think people are thinking this through clearly, but then people usually don't which is why the masses are so dangerous without good leadership, which we don't have right now, which brings us to these useless elections coming up!

Re: bohunt is failing our children - Me (26th Jun 2024 - 01:52:33) I should add I'm sure noone here supports such views either, isn't it time we stopped talking about SEN kids and the editor just closed this down now, we may all have our opinions but it seems to be going round in circles! The phantom toilet mystery of Bohunt is unlikely to be solved on here. Goodnight all and Come on England in the Euros, maybe we could start a thread about Southgate instead😂

Re: bohunt is failing our children - Pete (26th Jun 2024 - 08:01:00) D- Thats because you're stuck in an age that never existed, the things you dislike however have always existed but such things and feelings were brutally suppressed and by extension repressed. Thank goodness the world is gradually "evolving" to the stage that many people are more understanding and less afraid of other peoples differences to themselves.

Re: bohunt is failing our children - D (26th Jun 2024 - 10:25:19) I think the word you're looking for is "illegal", Pete. Homosexuality was illegal as it was for a schoolteacher to discuss homosexuality or sex change or indeed anything political with their pupils. So yes, that world did exist. We are not evolving but more regressing back to a society of selfish savages. We never had twelve year old school children being convicted of murder in the world I like that never existed. But hey, if that's the way you want society to evolve...

Re: bohunt is failing our children - Joe (26th Jun 2024 - 13:36:13) I think back to the sixties and there was a girl I think surname Bell? Who did murder a younger child things like that have always happened. Look at the Victorian era of slums and child prostitution hanging someone because they stole when hungry. We do not have to look that far back.

Re: bohunt is failing our children - D (26th Jun 2024 - 14:55:48) Mary Bell, Joe. She was also diagnosed as mentally ill prior to her trial. That bit still goes on today as well.

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