British Bulldog

[ghoti_mhic_uait]

This is the game where lots of children line up in two lines, then a child from one team runs at the other line with an aim to breaking it. If you break through the line, then you rejoin your team, and your team gets another go. If the line holds firm, you join the other team, and it's their go. Many schools have banned this, and had when we were at school, but I think from anecdotal evidence that it was mainly C of E/other protestant schools that did this, whereas RC schools still allow the game. So, a test:[Poll #271314]

Comments

[jaq.livejournal.com]

But the difference is that the schools you say are automatically C of E are mostly only nominally so, whereas Catholic schools tend to be more specifically religious.

I think your poll also doesn't take into account the age range of the respondents - I wonder if banning games is a more recent phenomenon.

[ghoti.livejournal.com]

*shrug* I didn't feel there was sufficient speration of C of E schooling and state schooling in general to warrant separation in the poll.

Yes, I did think about the age range, but given that I was thinking mostly of schools which had banned the game when we were at school, I didn't think ten years here or there would make much difference

[rainbowskye.livejournal.com]

I was thinking the same as the person above - I went to three different primary schools and none of them were defined as C of E or anything religious?
Presumably there are differences in region too - I filled it out on the first school I went to as it was played there and not banned. But I don't remember it at either of the others.