Do you remember your first day at school?

I can’t say that I was much enamoured by my school days in general and for me the beginning of a new term tended to be full of dread.

Well pupils at a kindergarten in the Chinese city of Shenzhen are unlikely to forget the first day of their new term this autumn as amazingly, along with their parents, they were treated to a display of a number of scantily dressed female performers including a woman wearing black shorts and a black crop top, running her hands over her thighs before gyrating round a flag pole.

One parent commented “This type of dancing is not suitable for a kindergarten – nursery children should learn knowledge, but not too much knowledge! I really can’t imagine what the headmaster was thinking.”

Well I think I do!

Someone else commented that for a kindergarten to host a pole dancer in its opening ceremony shows the taste and the emotional intelligence of the teachers.

And it seems that the display went down like a ton of bricks with the local education authorities who have instructed the school to apologise and dismiss the headmaster.

I can’t imagine why!

Margaret Mills returned later in the show to tell us about a cloudburst of near biblical proportions which struck areas around Tillingham in October 1859.

Listen again here to what Margaret told me today: –

See you next time,
Scott