Do you remember your days at school when the teacher confiscated the stickers or the doll that you had brought that day, balloons and endless other things? Well, they usually used to be returned to us at the end of class or in more serious cases they were given back to the parents after a brief three-quarter-hour talk.
Well, it seems that in England the rules are a bit tougher, at least in some schools, because a British teacher exposes all the objects that he has confiscated from his students over the last 15 years. And there are few confiscated objects.
Guy tarrant He is a British teacher with a strange hobby, collecting. Well, said like that does not seem very strange, who does not collect something apart from bills. Well, our English friend is dedicated to collecting confiscated items from different elementary and middle school students and has gathered an important collection from more than 150 schools and it has taken him about 17 years to gather it and not happy with that he has decided to make an exhibition with them.
Resistant Materials
This is what he called his exhibition "resistance materials". A name he chose for highlight the rebellion and resistance of youth facing the strict rules of the academic system where they studied. For him all these objects they represent acts of rebellion against a rigid system full of rules, in which students try to survive and evade the rules through play and impulsive activities not exempt from some kind of danger. Through these objects, says Tarrant, they can get to know themselves part of the complex lives of young people.
The exhibition can be seen in the Victoria & Albert Museum of Childhood in London.
I believe that if the confiscated items were not returned in my school, Mr. Tarrant would have to mount at least half a dozen exhibitions. And you, have they confiscated anything in school?
