Head of top girls' school blames cossetted childhood for 'safe space culture

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• Jenny Brown, head of St Albans High School for Girls, issued warning
• Children are so 'cosseted' they can no longer cope with risk or challenge
• Free speech is under threat and extreme politics on the rise as a result
• Petition called on feminist Germaine Greer to be banned from speaking
• Similarly, gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell came under fire for views
• Oxford students are calling for the removal of a statue of Cecil Rhodes
• Cambridge students have petitioned for return of a Nigerian bronze artwork
• Brown launched attack on 'these precious puritanical university students'
  

Children have been brought up in such a 'cosseted' world that universities have become a haven for extreme politics and intolerance of free speech, a leading head teacher has warned. Jenny Brown, head of St Albans High School for Girls, in Hertfordshire, said today's generation have a 'monstrous inability' to tolerate any views which are risky, challenging or different to their own. When they do, claims arise of feeling 'unsafe' and victimised. In a blog for The Sunday Times, Brown said: 'These children of the millennium didn't play unsupervised, they didn't play outside ... they didn't climb trees, grub up or get back for supper with torn jeans and wet wellies.

Jenny Brown, headteacher of St Albans High School for Girls, has said today's generation have experienced such a 'cosseted' upbringing that they can no longer cope with views that are risky or different to their own

'The state and the education system have fetishised protection, parents have cosseted their children; even our decades of prosperity and peacetime have skewed things for middle-class kids, who have had no experience of the privations and dangers that their grandparents endured.' There have been numerous recent examples of the anti-free speech 'safe space' culture of today's world.

In October, 2,500 people signed a petition calling on Cardiff University to ban feminist Germaine Greer from speaking on campus after she publicly declared she did not consider transgender women to be women. The event went ahead, with the university saying it was 'committed to freedom of speech and open debate'.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ents-anti-free-speech-safe-space-culture.html

 

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She is 100% right, you only have to look at Moon2012 and Legion Trollope to see what happens when you don't allow children to climb trees and get dirty. We are bad enough over here but as usual the US leads the world in the manufacture of PC bollocks.

 

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in Hertfordshire, said today's generation have a 'monstrous inability' to tolerate any views which are risky, challenging or different to their own. When they do, claims arise of feeling 'unsafe' and victimised

I blame it on academia,not the students.

 

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She is 100% right, you only have to look at like Moon2012 and Legion Trollope to see what happens when you don't allow children to climb trees and get dirty. Wt are bad enough over here but as usual the US leads the world in the manufacture of PC bollocks.

And you guys shouldn't have invented political leftism to feed our frail cultural sensitivities with.