Health and safety in education

Whatever happened to learning by experience do they think we are unable to "risk assess "for our own safety the HSE has gone bonkers the Government with them
Kids need a little danger and risk in their lives Yes some will end up badly hurt but when they survive like we did they learn as do the people there when it happened you can't teach children by just saying Don't do that Think of your reaction to the sign Wet Paint I still have to see if it is don't you ???
Then having got paint on my hands I have to solve the problem of how to get it off I don't scream and shout for a wet nurse
I am sure that this is a lot of the frustrated anger and silly annoyances that youngsters get up to today is caused by they have no excitement or danger or risk in their lives only the imaginary ones they play on their X box or whatever once again they are being trained in theory where the war games can't hurt the car crash doesn’t break your leg the war game doesn’t Kill
How can they learn about the fact's like this ??????
There is No substitute for experience and never will be life can hurt and does!
that’s the way we learned and have survived through history

All the electric cables are safely tucked away in out Educational Office to make sure no 'little precious' falls over them BUT NO!!!!

All cables need to be exposed to have Poxy little stickers on them to say that they are not about to blow you into Orbit.

This also needs to be done every year in case your Ipod Lead turns evil and decides to assasinate.

H&S GONE BONKERS

At the new Academy I work in,the school day goes from 8:20am untill 5:00 pm including 2 hrs for homework and study.This means that teachers are on hand to help with H/W and study.No H/W is sent home which means that most students get what would have been extra work at home actually completed.The kids did complain at first but now it has become normal to them and they knuckle down.

I belive that in school work should be, debating topics with fellow students and taking notes from teachers, all paper work and assingments should be done at home or during prep hours. I feel reeding a book in class is a waist of time, doing it at home frees you uo to get help from a teacher. in school

I've only been in school for 11 years, but for my wished career it'll be another 14 years before I leave it all behind. Health and Safety rules in schools have been taken to the extremes. My school building is far too small for the 929 or so pupils in it and the techy dept is a health and sefety disaster YET in all my, my sister and my brother's time (16 years) at school there has never ONCE been an accident other than say getting a paper cut, so, do get rid of paper? It's absolutely ridiculous and how are we meant to learn if we can't take risks?

Yes it would be good if when a child had a poor little scratched finger, we didn't get a parent hammering on the school gates screaming compensation and teaching staff not doing their job, but the case is that schools have to more or less cover their backs in case of any accident no matter how small hence the paperwork and duty of care which teachers are only too pleased to comply with.

Paperwork of any sort that slows down the process of educating young individuals is a bad thing. We're only storing up problems for that generation later on in life. Well said!

You're right - it's barmy. The amount of paperwork parents have to complete and sign for every trip and in school event is ridiculous. Presumably this is the end result of compensation culture. (Ironic, when you think the Government are quite happy to chance dosing kids with vaccines which may or may not cause permanent neurological damage - MMR inquiry announced this week).