We had an activity in PSHE this morning where the pupils had to come up with all the different words they could think of to describe people. Things like: kind, helpful, silly, knowledgable, dopey etc...

Unfortunately as is the way with this sort of activity there was one boy who took it too far and wrote out a list of words that were offensive to just about every minority (and majority) grouping on the planet. I think he covered pretty much every '-ism' known to human kind. I don't think I knew half those words when I was his age.

I decided to ring his parents and his dad was suitably shocked by it. In fact the boy himself answered the phone and I could actually hear his heart sink at the other end of the line when he realised who it was. I doubt he's watching much TV or playing on his playstation this evening.

Serves him right for being such a &^*(£.