Bushcraft club - help!

[RobD]

Help, am I looking at this all wrong? Here's the deal:

I'm a teacher and am going to run a simple bushcraft club for the kids in my school - age 10/11 - along the lines of simple knot tying, using stoves (Trangia types etc), navigation, tent building, shelter making, wide games... you get the picture. It's designed to try and engage our lost boys back into something they can talk and maybe even feel good about themselves in.

Well I told them to call it The Bushcraft Club I was derieded by the female staff for picking a wholly inappropriate name for the club. I was a bit lost but they then explained that 'wouldn't it look funny if Mr D was teaching children BUSH craft skills' - the connotation referring to female anatomy!

Now not sure if I should change the name of the club. What does the community think? Is this OTT or am I not seeing it right?

 

[Samon]

maybe a 'no girls allowed' sign would be appropriate?

 

[Beefy0978]

Keep the name and let em snigger. After all sooner or later you'll be leading them down to the forest.

 

[rik_uk3]

Help, am I looking at this all wrong? Here's the deal:

I'm a teacher and am going to run a simple bushcraft club for the kids in my school - age 10/11 - along the lines of simple knot tying, using stoves (Trangia types etc), navigation, tent building, shelter making, wide games... you get the picture. It's designed to try and engage our lost boys back into something they can talk and maybe even feel good about themselves in.

Well I told them to call it The Bushcraft Club I was derieded by the female staff for picking a wholly inappropriate name for the club. I was a bit lost but they then explained that 'wouldn't it look funny if Mr D was teaching children BUSH craft skills' - the connotation referring to female anatomy!

Now not sure if I should change the name of the club. What does the community think? Is this OTT or am I not seeing it right?

This has to be a wind up post.

 

[Gaudette]

It's too late now whatever you do the damage is done. I just hope they don't give you the nickname "bushunter"!


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[RobD]

This has to be a wind up post.

I wish it was. Made me really think about whether I could call it something else.

 

[Retired Member southey]

Camp club?

 

[udamiano]

Why change it, its what the general topic is called, you don't open an archery club then change its name because some nameless people decide the name has other connotations or could be degraded into something which seems more appropriate on their level of thinking. keep to your guns chap and ignore them.

Da

 

[bushwacker bob]

Call it 'scouts'

 

[Dannytsg]

Political correctness gone wrong in my opinion. I would print off the OED meaning and allow them to read it.

 

[Barn Owl]

Tell the female staff to grow up.

 

[British Red]

I would report the female staff for offensive and inappropriate remarks.

If a male member of staff made a genitalia based comment to a female member of staff they would be lucky to keep their job. In the age of equality, we can't have double standards can we?

 

[Tengu]

WOODcraft has a nice phallic ring to it, dont you think?

 

[bushwacker bob]

WOODcraft has a nice phallic ring to it, dont you think?

A phallic ring is altogether different.

 

[Harvestman]

You wanted to set up a bushcraft club.

So, call it a bushcraft club.


If you give in to puerile sniggering you'll never get anything done.

 

[John Fenna]

I would report the female staff for offensive and inappropriate remarks.

If a male member of staff made a genitalia based comment to a female member of staff they would be lucky to keep their job. In the age of equality, we can't have double standards can we?

Plus one to that!
And they allow such purile , pittiful fools to teach?
Sick, sad world!

 

[baldscot]

Maybe just describe the club to the kids and get them to come up with a name - makes them feel like its their club. Not that you should have to, no doubt if a male were to have made those comments,he have been sacked by now.

Good luck with the club.

 

[craig]

Call it 'scouts'

I was going to say that.

Craig.

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[Tengu]

Your fellow teachers have worryingly deviant minds...I would complain.

 

[georann]

sooner or later you'll be leading them down to the forest.

Oo er missus! That's preciseley what they were getting at!

Seriously though, it is what it is so why change it?