Interesting that the same people who have issues with changing the color of the sheep seem to have no problem with changing the “little boy who lived down the lane” into a little girl. Race trumps gender in the hurt feelings category, I guess.

Here’s a novel idea: maybe we could all just grow up and start worrying about things that actually matter. Things like child abuse, world hunger–stuff that actually destroys our society versus the WORDS that someone uses.

I think changing nursery rhymes like that is so overboard. The world has gone rediculously politically correct. :/

Nawww, that is just silly, we sing it as I was taught & we just sing the song again to change it to girl,

lol that is cute how you changed the lyrics. i also don’t know how people got through their lives while being taught the original version! stuff is getting rediculous now days and every body finds ways to get offended by anything.

In reality children don’t become racist due to a nursery rhyme. They become racist (in my honest opinion) from learning about different people from their family member opinions and the media reporting about “racist incidents”. I taught both my girls has had black sheep and I’m pretty sure thats how they still sing it on preschool! My children know that everyone isn’t the same skin colour and they understand that the world is made up of many different people with different looks and cultures and languages. They are keen to learn about the world and the people in it and don’t need these silly over the top changes.

My child is not at preschool age yet, but I think they have gone too far.

I had a conversation with some children I know, aged 9 & 11, about this pc stupidity recently.
When I told them about the lyric black sheep being changed to rainbow sheep, they said, “sheep aren’t rainbow though. How are sheep being racist because of their colour? Some sheep are black.”

I’m glad they’re able to think for themselves & were equally outraged as I was.
Then I said to them, “what about my hair? Is my hair racist?” My hair is black.
They laughed hysterically saying, “racist hair.”
Haha we all had a good laugh at the absurdity of this.

That is just pathetic really.. I’d rather they just don’t sing it

this is just gone too far ridiculous ill still be singing baa baa black sheep!

This is just so crazy, what is it exactly we are protecting our children reform. Hurt feelings, feeling different and feeling left out are all part of growing up. It’s now we develop our since of self. This just makes me feel exasperated.

I find it confusing and ridiculous. It’s not only schools…. I was at a meeting the other day when I was asked to put points on the marker board….???? yep, they were talking about the white board!! ….and I had a choice of green & blue markers to write with…. sorry, no black. Sigh.

There is no way that baa baa black sheep is going to become a victim of this political correctness be, in all my years working in childcare baa baa black sheep has always been the most requested song.
However I do like to link the song to the book where’s the green sheep and ask the children to choose what color to sing by picking a picture of different coloured sheep to help the toddlers learn their colours

ONE kindergarten, and all this hoo ha? Baa-me!

Honestly! It’s utter ridiculous behaviour! I am teaching. My children the real version – so they both know it. It didn’t have a adverse effect on most of the world growing up -why change it now?

My nieces were taught that at least 25 years ago. She is now 31. I can remember the eldest one “correcting” me when I started singing it to her one day and asking her Mum about it………..You rarely see black sheep. I distinctly remember my Dad telling a relative of ours that he had better not let the ram in with the ewes. They had the last laugh as the ram had been neutered. He had been bottle raised and been a pet for a couple of years before going into the paddock with the others full-time. His wool was much sought after.

Does this mean that the kids are no longer call a Lady Bug a Lady Bug but a Gender Bug because calling it a Lady Bug is sexist? This will not happen because these centres are run by women

This is racist, to act like black is a dirty word. It’s also racist against all other coloured people, if we can’t say black, well you can’t say brown, yellow, or white either.

What is the world coming too! Good heavens, there are black sheep & a lot of other black animals for that matter. Why are they robbing innocent children from the nursery rhymes that we all grew up with. I will still sing the words I know to my grandies.

Don’t get me started!!!! So sick of this. If something or someone is black THEY ARE BLACK!

I think it’s gone too far, little kids have no understanding of racism until we as adults tell them, or show them. The childcare our children go to have not changed the lyrics and honestly are we going to have to change any reference to any colour in anything and everything? Political correctness gone too far