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18 Mar 2020
The claim that UK schools ban best friends is an unsourced urban myth based on thin reporting from The Sun.

So this is a story that Lionel's reporting on out of The Sun. Sure. Which I might say has thin sourcing. Oh, The Sun? No, that rag is right on it every time. There are no specific schools or educators who are said to be banning kids from having best friends in that piece. The entire article is based on two secondhand comments saying that some schools are doing this. The rationale provided is basically close to what Lionel's talking about, you know, avoiding the pain of losing your best friend if you move. But it's also supposed to be, like, the emphasis, largely, is on encouraging group play instead of children excluding each other. Sure. I have no idea if anyone is actually doing that from this article, though, because no one who's enacting this policy is mentioned or quoted in the article.