Children are being made to wear goggles before handling Blu Tack and are forbidden to run in the playground as a health and safety culture sweeps through schools.
A survey of nearly 600 teachers revealed the most restrictive rules being imposed in an attempt to avoid injuries and lawsuits.
Pupils at one school are forced to put on goggles before using Blu Tack to prevent them rubbing the common adhesive into their eyes.
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In another, teachers are given a five-page briefing note on the dangers of Pritt Stick before they may use it with their charges.
Generations of youngsters who made things out of empty egg boxes will be dismayed to learn that some schools have banned them for fear of salmonella poisoning.
And many teachers reported bans on footballs, snowball fights, conker games and running in the playground.
Nearly half of teachers and classroom assistants polled by Teachers TV believe health and safety regulations are holding children back at school.
June 19th, 2009 at 4:25 am
As stated in the article ‘this is holding children back’ – exactly the point and purpose.
Surely they should be made to wear goggles when handling hot food served at school lunch. A splash of hot gravy in the eye could cause serious damage!
LukeLuke Reply:
June 19th, 2009 at 5:45 am
I’d love to see the Health and Safety executives reaction if they looked whats wiped underneath the desks! (Bio-hazards). On a more serioius note though, this is the real state of health and safety in Britain and what happens when you speak out about it.
http://www.independent.co.uk/n.....38649.html
LukeLuke Reply:
June 19th, 2009 at 5:50 am
How about wearing motorcycle helmets in the Refectory in case an oik starts a food fight by throwing a butter flapjack at the spotty kid!
elrococco Reply:
June 19th, 2009 at 9:06 am
If these folks were really concerned about kid’s health they’d ban the flouridated water and hormone infested milk from consumption. They’d buy local organic vegetables to serve and they’d incorporate archery and rifle marksmanship into the phys ed classes. Of course my ideas of freedom and Liberty must be from Mars because when i propose this to the average Joe out there they flinch like I’m pressing on some mental bruise in their psyche – maybe I’m getting dirt on their washed brain.
Assert Your Authority
they want them dumb Reply:
June 19th, 2009 at 4:05 pm
How else can they perpetuate this lie, by propping up two false Presidential Candidates, both of whom are the exact same. How else can they pilfer TRILLIONS even QUADRILLIONS of our dollars into the pockets of the rich 1%, unless they dumb down everyone.
In schools vietnam isnt even a footnote in a history book, yet they beat the holohoax subject to death. Ask yourself this, if such a tragedy really DID happen, then why have many nations deemed it a crime to bring a second opinion in on the subject, or even new investigation? Something stinks. Great Britain, United States, both owned by Zionist bankers.
Jim Lunsford Reply:
June 19th, 2009 at 6:06 pm
Let’s not forget helmets with bicycles (I can live with that one a lot better than the spandex that people seem to think you need as well) helmets with horses (can’t you just see John Wayne wearing a helmet on a horse) helmets with motorcycles (like it’s going to save me from the full body crash at 80mpg) and next is helmets while jogging (wouldn’t want to crack your skull if you tripped). Jesus, what a fucking safety world it is. Hell, I always figured avoiding wrecks saved more lives than helmets on my bikes. 30 years of motorcycles and still here w/o a helmet. No one wore a fucking helmet on a bike when we were kids and no one died from them. And we rode them more often. And on a horse? Fuck that shit. If you’re that uncoordinated, don’t get on the fucking horse.
JF Reply:
June 20th, 2009 at 12:32 pm
Exactly right, the whole world has gone insane with this crap! I never wore a helmet riding my bike or for any other sport for crying out loud, but now the police will ticket a parent if they don’t make dang sure that their kid wears one. No common sense anymore. Avoid getting hurt that is how a person learns. Beam me up Scotty, common sense no longer rules here.
Uncle Mikey Reply:
June 20th, 2009 at 7:16 am
Ring, ring…slobber,slobber, drool
(conditioned to obey without question)
http://www.myspace.com/bigwheelstuntsquad
June 19th, 2009 at 4:36 am
Nah, the medical mafia should remove children’s eyes. That way there’s no longer any danger. Maybe cut their legs off too. Reduce the number of broken legs. Perhaps organ removal to stop cancer. It should be mandatory if you ask me!
Joe Reply:
June 19th, 2009 at 1:17 pm
For their safety kids should just be brains floating in a jar. But not a glass jar because it might break and cut one the children.
June 19th, 2009 at 4:40 am
Well, I guess this does it. It looks like we can all start to save gobs of money when they stop the school sports where ‘kids’ really get hurt: football, baseball, soccer and hockey just to mane a few. We can also do away with the care and maintenance of the large fields used to play these dangerous sports and the teachers and coaches that run them. Because of this it looks like we all win!!! Horray, NO MORE SPORTS. They might as well ban national sports because they are dangerous also and somehow in the act of doing these sports we have created drug users….Oh No!
wildcat Reply:
June 19th, 2009 at 3:47 pm
In the UK, they have already sold off the playing fields to developers – and because teachers can’t afford to live locally, the playgrounds have been turned into car-parks. Parents are so scared of pedo’s that they won’t let their kids play outside – in any case, terraced housing tends to form rat-runs where cars race along.
June 19th, 2009 at 4:45 am
This ploy will be used by the Child Protective Service to confiscate your kids when they get bruises from now on, after all they did not get the bruises in the school playground. SO all you natsy parents must be causing the bruises and abusing the children!!! ah hahaha I got your kids now… try to get them back from inside the jail….
JF Reply:
June 20th, 2009 at 12:37 pm
I have one thing to say to you social worker nazis: take a long walk yourself off a short pier, your kind is too brainwashed and braindead to give the regular folks any advice about anything. 10 dollars to donuts you don’t have kids, do you? And yet, you feel the need to tell us folks with common sense what to do. Kids fall they get hurt. Mom or dad makes it better, can’t prevent injuries from reckless behavior from kids because kids will be kids regardless of parental rules. When I see that all the kids currently in foster care off of mind altering drugs, never abused in any fashion then I will think better of you, until then no chance in heck that I would even consider taking any advice from you.
June 19th, 2009 at 5:16 am
Go ahead you evil humans, have children. You’ll be sorry or not when we take them for being born. We’ve given you many reasons not to and if you insist you will pay with your child’s life.
JF Reply:
June 21st, 2009 at 9:30 am
Read above reply from me to Gonza, and jump in the nearest large body of water.
June 19th, 2009 at 7:13 am
Maybe the children should not be allowed to eat anything at all for fear of food poisoning. Breathing should be banned, the gasses the children inhale could contain dangerous contaminants.
June 19th, 2009 at 7:59 am
If a child accidentally rubbed this Blu Tackt in their eyes and their eyesight was damaged as a result, 90% of parents would sue the school district. It has probably already happened somewhere, which is why they create all these crazy rules. Child slips on the playground? Sue the school.
It isn’t over-zealous saftey regulators. It’s our over-zealous lawsuit happy society.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m really quite a liberal on most things, but frivilous lawsuits have consequences and this is one of them. Don’t bash school administrators or the saftey regulators for wanting to prevent costly litigation that takes money away from childrens education.
wildcat Reply:
June 19th, 2009 at 2:27 pm
Very true. But that is due to faulty maintenance and poor supervision than anything else:
Parents to sue after school pipe accident
[Accident Claims]
A group of parents are planning to file an accident claim after their children were injured when a heating duct fell on the pupils, while they were sitting an exam.
About 200 pupils were sitting for their SATS test at Minster College, on the Isle of Sheppey, when the red hot metal structure crashed down on top of them, almost crushing dozens of the year nine pupils.
A student had to go into hospital for two days and has had a series of operations after fracturing his jaw. At present he is still off school. The mother of the boy is one of the parents who are seeking compensation, on behalf of their children.
http://www.accidentsdirect.com.....ident.aspx
Jim Lunsford Reply:
June 19th, 2009 at 6:07 pm
I think this is covered under the whole frivolous bullshit section.
Wakien Reply:
June 20th, 2009 at 12:57 am
If the glue used causes damage to eyes, why the hell are they using it? Why not use a glue that isnt harmful ..duh?
You dont give kids toxic crap and then have them put on safety glasses..thats just stupid in the first place. What if they eat it? If it can harm the eyes it must be deadly if eaten too..and we all know kids put stuff like that in their mouths.
Who is running this world? I think they have all gone bloody insane.
expatbrit Reply:
June 20th, 2009 at 2:12 am
complete fucking idiot
June 19th, 2009 at 8:11 am
Make the kids wear a plastic bubble, oops! that might contaminate them…. then again, keep them at home and home school them.
June 19th, 2009 at 8:19 am
The whole point is to teach the children to be afraid of everything, so that they will be helpless sheep when they grow up. That way they won’t threaten the power structure.
Joe Reply:
June 19th, 2009 at 1:19 pm
Don’t you mean sheeple
June 19th, 2009 at 8:27 am
WTF we are turning humans into pussies
June 19th, 2009 at 8:32 am
recess = 30-minutes in the prison yard.
June 19th, 2009 at 9:40 am
Good Gods, where will all this insanity end??? When I was a child, I received for CHRISTMAS a REAL combination Drill Press/Lathe that was made by Mattell ( I think) !!! I climbed trees, sometimes 50′ high! I rode my bicycle constantly. My friends and I played outside, AFTER DARK!!! Lords, how did we survive?
June 19th, 2009 at 9:46 am
George Carlin said it all…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sISBcItCBM
June 19th, 2009 at 10:24 am
Whenever I read a ridiculous headline, I can already feel it’s about my home country: UK.
The people pushing these agendas are going to go ahead with their little manipulations no matter what anyone says or does…….the only two questions which arise are:
- for how long?
- and when they are found out, what will happen to them?
Not nice.
wildcat Reply:
June 19th, 2009 at 3:44 pm
This has been going on since the mid 1980’s, particularly in the inner cities. These people drive away educated parents with their stupidity, forcing up house prices around other schools until their catchment areas are smaller than a football field, and there is a wide gap in performance between the two. Then these lunatics turn round and say “It isn’t fair that educated middle class families should have the good schools and the poor have all the bad schools” and then proceed to introduce more whacky legislation to restart the cycle all over again.
June 19th, 2009 at 12:10 pm
lets make life as hard as possible and take the joy out of everything…….. oh i forgot thats the aim… its already happening….
i think we need a war on blutack…. not sure where its made but if its in the middleast we should invade…
shocked and awed Reply:
June 19th, 2009 at 1:34 pm
Don’t give them any ideas. Oh hey, we all forgot about paper cuts!
June 19th, 2009 at 5:00 pm
Some teachers ban footballs, snowball fights, conker games and “running”. Wow no kidding?
And if your child is caught running in the school playground he will be severely disciplined by child protective services and removed from the parents care, sent to reform school, and sold rrrrr adopted by a more responsible family, the Addams family. Zieg Heil School Nazi’s.
Jim Lunsford Reply:
June 19th, 2009 at 6:36 pm
If you want to hear something really ridiculous; in the early 1980s, the military banned football and baseball as too dangerous. But they kept rugby. I know, nothing makes sense in the military.
June 19th, 2009 at 5:10 pm
Hi my name is Johnny and I’m only 6 years old. Sometime for fun I go to the lab in school to do my Boo Boo number 2. I sometimes do it in a one gallon zip lock bag. Then when the teacher is out, I put it in his desk and spread it around the classroom. Then the black janitor comes in with blue spray bottles and a mask and cleans for hours so I miss boring English class. Yes Johnny has lot’s of fun in scool.
June 19th, 2009 at 8:16 pm
It’s not a new thing…been goin on, and off, for centuries…
http://www.thingamababy.com/ba.....ps_th.html
June 20th, 2009 at 2:18 am
Bluetac is a secret weapon placed in schools by islamic terror groups to harm our children.
Lead in pencils can also be used to poison any kid who chews. Ink can be used to blind a kid rendering them vunerable to attack by Bin Ladens kids army.
June 20th, 2009 at 8:41 am
When i was growing up and at school if you did anything that hurt you, tripping when running, football hitting you in the playground ( the real game of football not that handegg game you Yanks play) eating paints, climbing trees etc, you know the general crap kids want to do to have fun. You learned a couple of things. Noticeable, not to do again cause it hurt and being aware of your surroundings and what others are doing in that area. But then we had no compensation culture which is prevalent nowadays. It has got so bad that a lot schools do not have sports days anymore as the administrators think that it is wrong to have losers, that everyone has to be a winner. Out the window went any competitiveness. So now we have a generation of underachievers who do not strive in the least to be better or live up to their full potential.
June 20th, 2009 at 9:02 am
Let the dumb kids watch TV allllllllllll day. Then they cant get hert.
June 20th, 2009 at 11:53 am
Why don’t we all lie down before we hurt ourselves?
JF Reply:
June 21st, 2009 at 4:01 pm
If everybody did that , no one would be able to work. What about falling off the bed? That would be next of then nanny state’s directives. haahahaa, jk
June 20th, 2009 at 12:18 pm
In a lawsuit crazy society, it stands to reason.
June 20th, 2009 at 2:59 pm
Reply: Iain UK
Everyone read Iain UK. A generation of underachievers . Now you know what happened to George W Bush.
June 21st, 2009 at 12:03 am
It’s a good thing these kids spend most of the day inside a sterile classroom under fluorescent lights instead of outside in the danger-laden fresh air or in their germ-infested homes!
June 30th, 2009 at 3:16 am
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