Litigation culture: We are hamstrung by lawyers.We have to stop pupils throwing snowballs as it’s a breach of health & safety regulations. If I want to take an art class acrross the road to the park, I need to send letters of consent home and produce a risk assessment. If the pupils forget the signed consent letter- they can’t go.
But look here: BBC Sticking-plaster story.
Note this bit that emphasises the ridiculous:
But Emily’s father Kevan, 39, criticised the guidelines.
He said: "The whole saga is absolutely ridiculous. My daughter had a tiny cut and I just cannot see the reason why a plaster couldn’t be put on her finger by the staff.
If it’s a tiny cut – then why does she need a sticking plater? What do plasters actually do? My advice on the matter is- if you want your cut to heal more quickly, then don’t put a plaster on it. If it’s more use as some kind of comfort blanket – then that’s another issue.
In a smiliar vein, we aren’t allowed to give out paracetamol to pupils in school either. Most kids who want it because they have a headache, they mostly have a headache because their main intake of fluids is sugary "pop". The solution? Drink water?
Creationism: BBC ( again), It looks like some (christians) want to replace a theory that has some holes in its evidence with another theory that has no evidence to support it at all. Similarly, I was talking to a y8 pupil this week who was convinced that Astrology is for real. I know that teenagers can be remarkably naïve, but the worrying thing about this variety of misunderstanding is that quite a few adults believe it too. Luckily the move here ( from OCR) is that scientists will have to discuss creationism- they are however in the best position to refute such mythology. I hope they can learn from the astrology fiasco. When they have done that can we put God onto their syllabus too?
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Ahem, there are other reasons for needing Paracetamol that water doesn’t help. School may have hot water bottles but they aren’t subtle and only have a limited effect. So it’s a bugger if you forget your painkillers >_<.
*imagines everybody as one big hamstring*
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I forgot about that one :-$
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