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Jawloms

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Domo

Domo

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some people's thought processes actually scare me...

Being over-protective is one thing, but i'm sure this is taking it to a whole new level...

Miscbrah

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It [Old Priory Junior Academy] said it had been contacted by one parent about the issue.

 

"Hello my Callum done a handstand and fell on his head and it's the school's fault someone PLEASE think of the children etc."

 

:wacko:

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Duranis

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Being one of the first aiders here I do kind of sympathise with the school a bit. There is not a lot of detail in the article and if they were getting a larger than normal amount of injuries happen then it makes sense to do something to stop that (either more staff which with a lot of budgets is unlikely or other methods such as restricting the activity that is causing the injuries). It's easy to say its H&S gone mad but if some kid manages to do themselves a serious injury I would not want to be the one who has to defend it by saying "I was just letting kids be kids".

 

We had a spot here a little while ago were we had to stop 2 year groups from playing football for a couple of weeks. They where just being really stupid, there was a LOT of injuries and a lot of ripped uniforms. We banned all football for these 2 year groups for a couple of weeks (and had many a parent saying "jeez kids can't even play football at school now, what is the world coming too" but at the end of the day it stopped a lot of kids getting hurt on a daily basis and a lot of expenses for parents who had to buy new uniform. Also after we let them start playing again they behaved a lot better.

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mthomas08

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Thing is though, kids get injured. They are children.

 

As a kid if I saw a tree, fence, wall or even a pipe I wanted to climb it.

 

What happens when we fall? That's right we get backup after suffering the usual bleeding knee, we get upset but we get over it and learn to be a bit more careful.

Duranis

Duranis

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Thing is though, kids get injured. They are children.

 

As a kid if I saw a tree, fence, wall or even a pipe I wanted to climb it.

 

What happens when we fall? That's right we get backup after suffering the usual bleeding knee, we get upset but we get over it and learn to be a bit more careful.

 

I agree 100% and with my own kids I encourage them to go climb the tree :)

 

However if I was responsible for 500 kids that weren't mine and they were all trying to climb tree's (and most of them were falling and hurting themselves) I would definitely ban tree climbing. Especially if one if them falling could see legal action being taken against me and potentially ending my career.

sparkeh

sparkeh

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Well, I do have some sympathy for the school. The flipside of this is if a child did seriously injure themselves and its reported that the school knew that there was a higher than normal rate of injuries and nothing was done.

 

The people who moan about not letting kids be kids are at the front of the line to complain about schools not looking after their kids properly if something goes wrong.

 

You just can't win really.

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