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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
So you don't believe in putting children at risk?
Risk is about being able to recognise what is dangerous and what is not......and if we do not subject children to the opportunities of finding out what is risky for them, they will never be able to risk assess and cope with risk.
When councils talk about risk, what they are actually saying is ' we don t want anyone to have the chance of suing us' whether that be a teacher or a pupil.
I walked from Woodnook to Peel Park every schoolday....come rain hail snow or shine.....was I at risk?
Has this harmed me? No of course it hasn't.
We are breeding a nation of milk sops, wimps and whingers with the help of the authorities who should be making sure the roads and pavements are suitable for purpose......NOT stopping services and closing schools.
Try getting the school to give your child an extra day off to enable them to go on a family holiday....See what their reaction to that is......because everyone knows that even a day makes a difference to a child's education!
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I had to walk from Huncoat village to Woodnook school on Hudson Street and back, probably six or seven miles in total more times than I care to think about and as you rightly say it has done me no harm at all, in fact the walk, although I did not think so at the time did me more good than harm.
With the demise of p.e. in our schools and the selling off of the school playing fields, also the latest load of rubbish about stopping lads being able to tackle one another in a game of rugby fills me with dread for our future generations, life itself is hard, if our our grandchildren are brought up to believe that they should not attain to be the best that they can be then what is the point in trying to teach them anything.
P.S. Marge; Please have a look on the post under Accringtons oldest supermarket, there is a question from me about someone you me remember.
Yours as always, stay happy, Taddy.