Well
a few years back some bright spark in education decided that all children at nursery school should spend at least one lesson a week in the water area, which is usually a sort of shallow Roman bath filled with funnels and tubes and other water-related toys.

This means that nursery teachers have to help change the little tykes into and out of their swimming gear once a week. It never occurred to me until recently that the ulterior motive was so that the teachers would regularly see all the children clean and naked and be able to spot the telltale bruising of domestic violence.

Not funny, but pretty clever, I thought.
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Thu 5 Feb 2009, 9:47, Reply)