[someguy113]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...lf-safety.html

Look how much fun they had back then. Would boxing and rollerskating footie be allowed in school playgrounds today? I don't think so.

[clarusblue]

the phrase "elf n' safety" makes me want to shoot the daily mail editor

[TheHansa]

Looks crap. I think playtime is more fun with the elfs.

[Tubby Isaacs]

(Original post by clarusblue)
the phrase "elf n' safety" makes me want to shoot the daily mail editor

And me too. It sets my b***** sensors going.

I went to primary school 30 years ago. We had a headmaster who used to stop us playing marbles, football, cricket etc because someone had got hit with the ball. It was a bit of an overreaction but we were a bit more careful next time.

Nowadays, he'd have some idiot off the Mail calling him up.

[Darth Stewie]

Fridays daily mail: Elf n' safety' ruining out kids!!!! we demand to let kids be kids!!!!!!!

Next Fridays daily mail: Child found dead in playground after falling from tree! sack the lax teachers!!!

bloody Muslims *grumble*

100% spot on there DM and I bet nowdays you wouldn't be allowed to take photographs showing young girls knickers like the example in tour article.What's the World coming to?

[ForKicks]

This health and safety thing is indeed unique to schools and is pretty much done because of decisions by the headmaster/mistress. Nothing to do with legislation.

Besides, I think it is exaggerated. The reason kids don't play games like that anymore is because they are too busy BBM'ing, playing computer games, and other such crap. Luckily I will most likely be retired by the time this costly health time bomb fully blows.

[ForKicks]

(Original post by Darth Stewie)
Fridays daily mail: Elf n' safety' ruining out kids!!!! we demand to let kids be kids!!!!!!!

Next Fridays daily mail: Child found dead in playground after falling from tree! sack the lax teachers!!!

bloody Muslims *grumble*

100% spot on there DM and I bet nowdays you wouldn't be allowed to take photographs showing young girls knickers like the example in tour article.What's the World coming to?

The Daily Mail is quite remarkable in how successful it is, despite being truly awful It essentially chooses any story that may stir up feelings without regard to consistency or even accuracy.

I imagine it's readership consists of the gumbys from monty python.

MY BRAIN HURTS.

[Bobifier]

All those pictures were of things I see children doing now except the boxing one. I don't get what the point is. They're trying to make an issue out of something whilst simultaneously offering evidence that there is no issue to be had.

[ArcadiaHouse]

(Original post by clarusblue)
the phrase "elf n' safety" makes me want to shoot the daily mail editor

Oh God this, it just isn't funny or clever or anything

Also, "Her Royal Hotness"

just

no

so much second-hand embarrassment

[Tudball]

Elves.

[ForeverOptimistic]

(Original post by Darth Stewie)
100% spot on there DM and I bet nowdays you wouldn't be allowed to take photographs showing young girls knickers like the example in tour article.What's the World coming to?

I was about to post that. The more you read it, the more you think that the person who posted it, Tancred Hesmondwhyte (that cannot be a real name), from Tardebigge (srsly), expected loads of red arrows and a bucketload of abuse. King Troll - backfired.

I agree with Tancred (lol) actually, why can't we take pictures of girl's in their knickers!?! Makes me bloody sick actually. This country has gone to the dogs!

N.B. Does anyone else just bypass a DM article completely and just go straight for the comments?

[Darth Stewie]

(Original post by ForeverOptimistic)
I was about to post that. The more you read it, the more you think that the person who posted it, Tancred Hesmondwhyte (that cannot be a real name), from Tardebigge (srsly), expected loads of red arrows and a bucketload of abuse. King Troll - backfired.

I agree with Tancred (lol) actually, why can't we take pictures of girl's in their knickers!?! Makes me bloody sick actually. This country has gone to the dogs!

N.B. Does anyone else just bypass a DM article completely and just go straight for the comments?

i know right? hide in the bushes of a school these days with a camera and some chloroform and you'll be arrested by the ruddy nanny police! back in my day if a girl wasn't molested by the age of 10 she was considered ugly! Broken Britain.

I like reading the comments as well one thing i noticed on this article in particular is how all the people commenting seem to be pensioners, do they make up a large portion of the daily mails readership? that would make a lot of sense tbh all this moaning about how being outdoors is somehow "fun" it's like they haven't even heard of world of warcraft

[Herr]

In a way you can't blame schools for enacting all these ludicrous H&S policies, parents these days would no sooner call up their solicitors for a tiny scratch their brats suffered at school.

Last year I got to know of a parent at the private school I sent my elder kid to who wanted to sue the school because her darling son got kissed by one girl who had just eaten a tuna sandwich..... turns out that boy had swollen lips because he was allergic to all kinds of seafood. Wanted to sue the school and the parents of that girl.

[ForKicks]

(Original post by Herr)
In a way you can't blame schools for enacting all these ludicrous H&S policies, parents these days would no sooner call up their solicitors for a tiny scratch their brats suffered at school.

Last year I got to know of a parent at the private school I sent my elder kid to who wanted to sue the school because her darling son got kissed by one girl who had just eaten a tuna sandwich..... turns out that boy had swollen lips because he was allergic to all kinds of seafood. Wanted to sue the school and the parents of that girl.

That is true. I somehow forgot about the rise of litigation culture. Society worries me..

[zippyRN]

1. It's from the Daily Fail

2. I doubt there's an HSE improvement or prohibition notice been served

3. I doubt there will have been a proper risk assessment by a safety practitioner undertaken

4. I blame the no win, no fee vultures along with their culture of backhanders and referral fees.

[daisydaffodil]

Hm yes, I grew up in the 1990s with less health and safety, here's what happened:

One boy nearly broke his neck playing wrestling. He ended up being carted off from school on a spinal board. Wrestling was later banned, due to health and safety.

One girl was close to fracturing her skull in playing "gymnastics" - tumbling on metal gates. Tumbling was later banned, due to health and safety.

Countless children nearly ended up in the exposed eletrical boilers behind the school - thankfully, wired fencing was eventually put up due to health and safety.

Countless people climbed on top of a victorian school roof - which nearly collapsed, until anti climb paint was put on due to health and safety.

One person had a needle in their eyeball due to playing with an elastic band and rubbers, the rubber had a needle in it that was barely noticeable and stuck there by pure accident

I fell off an overpacked roundabout not unlike what's shown in the article (30 children) and whacked my head on concrete ground.

My mum witnessed a child falling ten feet from a slide onto concrete floor, and landing up with a three inch diameter purple egg on his head. Thanks to h/s today he wouldn't fall from such a height as any slide would be properly built with less chance of falling off (there were no handrails on the ladder etc), and any falls would be a bit softer due to parks being built with bark or soft material as opposed to concrete.

I nearly suffocated as a result of being on an unmanned, unmanaged bouncy castle (at a council run event, apparently it didn't need to be managed) with 30 kids on it, the eldest sixteen - I was the smallest and ended up trapped between the groundsheeting and the air filled layer, took six men to pull me out as 30 children were bouncing literally on top of me. Health and safety rules now exist in most councils whereby if you are going to do bouncy castles etc it has to be managed properly.

Health and safety rules exist for a reason - I'd far rather have simple effective ways of managing risk than allowing pointless accidents to occur.

[ocelotrevs]

A lot of the time health and safety rules which are implemented by schools are misinterpretations of the rules and decided by either the local authority or schools themselves.

This article is flawed anyway, yes nothing happened there. Yes, there have been times when an over reaction has occured, at my old school they banned football because a teacher got hit with a ball (teachers got hit with balls all the time when I was there, nothing happened). But at the same time, H&S legislation is there to protect children from needless injuries, as well as people who work in any job.
A large part of the problem is the "no win/ no fees", "it must be someone's fault" and "someone must pay" mentality that we see all over the place. That is what has taken the fun out of life and looking at a children's playground now, they are so sterile, dull and un-interesting.