Oh dear lord. McAuley Catholic High School in Doncaster has proposed a move to clip-on ties for their kids for “safety reasons”. Apparently, there is a concern that kids might be strangled by ties that get caught up in “something”. Hmm. Funny, kids have been wearing real ties to schools for, what, hundreds of years now. I wonder what the number of tie-strangulation incidents actually is. I suspect it’s somewhere close to the zero mark. Sigh. Apparently this is a growing trend.

There’s a facebook group protesting against the introduction of the ties. It’s good to see that some folk actually agree that it’s a stupid plan (their stance seems to be more of a waste of money, which is also true.)

Really though isn’t this just typical of today’s nannying state?