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Nigel DuPree
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MRSA in Schools ? How did they keep that one quiet ?
Also not sure padded floors, walls and stairways or that there is an alternative to an 'every child matters' set of romper reins with an individual personal assistant on the other end of each one.
Accepting, children jumping of little things like curbs, low walls around flower boarders etc. is a "foreseeable" part of their exploring their world nevertheless, it (the world) has actually gone mad if risk aversion has really reached the point where we need to physically restrain children, more than they already are, from stepping off tall buildings or into path of bullits and speeding trains or other sharp or hot objects.
"No fear" may be a good ethos in terms of the Human Rights of the Child but, this does seam to highlight the immediate need for better parenting and schooling in order to sort myth from reality in RISK MANAGEMENT.
To play or not to play ? That is the question for children and men as the Walrus said or something like that.
Yea, what "Health & Safety still not on National Curriculum" naa beggars belief although press keen to report Audit Commission statement that :
"after ten years this governments program has had no measurable impact"
Now there is consistance if it can only be a sustainable social enterprise !
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Kevin Brown
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Where does it say that the MRSA was contracted in school? Surely the child must have come into contact with it while undergoing treatment for head injuries in hospital. Fear is good, pain is good. They both tell us that something is wrong. They educate us in the protocols of caution and good sense. Insulating children from fear/pain paints an entirely too rosy picture of the perils of daily life. We learn by our mistakes, much the same way as young animals do. It's aversion therapy at its most basic level. I coach junior rugby and believe me, minor incidents as kids develop their skills prevent a lot of major grief later on.
Show me a completely fearless individual and I'll show you an idiot. Fear is a tool that should be honed and exercised (and never left to get rusty).
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