Health, Safety and PC Insanity
Baa-baa Black Sheep is now a banned nursery rhyme at Swaffham Bulbeck school. Just so it won't be eradicated from our fold-memory, here's a refresher:
Baa Baa Black Sheep,
Have you any wool?
Yes sir, yes sir, three bags full.
One for the Master and one for the Dame
But none for the little boy who cries down the lane.
where readers will note the original (so we understand) last line. The rhyme appears to have been a comment on the dire effects of the Enclosures on the general populace, the sheep bringing no benefit to them, instead destroying their livelihoods and way of life.
So are we to think that the only thing that's changed is that now all the sheep work in Education?