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Re: School snow closures cause THIS:
« Reply #15 on: February 04, 2009, 11:39:20 AM »
Quote from: GROWLER on February 04, 2009, 11:30:33 AM
Quote from: The Moan Ranger on February 04, 2009, 11:25:32 AM
This could have happened at the weekend, so the poor girl wouldn't have been at school anyway. It was a tragic accident, nothing more.

Well it didn't, and the snow may have all gone by the coming weekend.

This girl WOULD be alive this morning if the school hadn't been closed for H&S reasons, that's all I'm saying.
It's the irony of it all that's getting to me.
I do think it absurd that the schools close at the first touch (or threat) of snow...

But I don't think you can link the two so easily... she could have got run over on the way to school... in fact it might be interesting if we could compare the injuries sustained from staying at home to those actually going out to school and back... of course we can't...
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Re: School snow closures cause THIS:
« Reply #16 on: February 04, 2009, 11:49:20 AM »
I don't think you can blame the school closures for that. Basically if parents weren't so quick to blame the educational establishments for accidents that happened on school property the schools would probably have remained open as they used to back in the day. Blame the sue happy culture we have for the girl's accident or the parents that brought her up with no sense or the fact that she was out without supervision. You can hardly blame the schools shutting for that sort of thing.
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Re: School snow closures cause THIS:
« Reply #17 on: February 04, 2009, 11:50:06 AM »
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueAQx42u_-E

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Re: School snow closures cause THIS:
« Reply #18 on: February 04, 2009, 11:50:35 AM »
Ahhh, RUGS to all of you. ::)

I still feel this was a totally avoidable accident due to complete and totally OTT H&S nonsense.
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Re: School snow closures cause THIS:
« Reply #19 on: February 04, 2009, 11:57:05 AM »
Yes but if you take your arguement one step further then the reason we have OTT H&S nonsense is because of the parents in the first place. There was talk of making the teachers go in to Mr Wench's school on Monday and Tuesday as it was the little darling's parents claiming that was the cause for concern not the safety of the kids or the staff.

The fact that schools can't afford to pay the massive loads of compensation if an accident had happened and the parents had claimed was the reason that they shut, no other reason.


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Re: School snow closures cause THIS:
« Reply #20 on: February 04, 2009, 12:04:17 PM »
So what's the answer to this never ending spiral into the seemingly bottomless pit of claiming for every scratch and bruise? Do away with insurance all together p'raps? rubschin:
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Re: School snow closures cause THIS:
« Reply #21 on: February 04, 2009, 12:05:31 PM »
Parents with some sense might be a start!
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Re: School snow closures cause THIS:
« Reply #22 on: February 04, 2009, 12:06:12 PM »
That counts me and him out then   redface:
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Re: School snow closures cause THIS:
« Reply #23 on: February 04, 2009, 12:08:48 PM »
Quote from: Bar Wench on February 04, 2009, 12:05:31 PM
Parents with some sense might be a start!

Nowt to do with sense. It's just bloody ££££££££££££££££££ greed, that's all. evil:
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Re: School snow closures cause THIS:
« Reply #24 on: February 04, 2009, 12:10:36 PM »
Common sense and a sense of personal responsibility, sadly lacking in populace at large who seem to believe nothing is their fault.

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Re: School snow closures cause THIS:
« Reply #25 on: February 04, 2009, 01:12:10 PM »

[serious] Of course this is a sad incident, but I fear that all the do-gooder H&S restrictions (not the claim avoidance sort) are preventing children from learning about the world and having fun as well.

When I was a kid there was always someone with a limb in plaster from jumping/falling off something while at play and there were lasting injuries and indeed tragedies, but on the whole kids learned what hurt and what to avoid.

We are losing all this and breeding fat yobs wrapped in cotton wool. [/serious]
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Re: School snow closures cause THIS:
« Reply #26 on: February 04, 2009, 01:13:08 PM »
Hear hear. I can't recall the last time I saw some kid bandaged up like a mummy.
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Re: School snow closures cause THIS:
« Reply #27 on: February 04, 2009, 01:21:12 PM »
Quote from: Darwins Selection on February 04, 2009, 01:12:10 PM

[serious] Of course this is a sad incident, but I fear that all the do-gooder H&S restrictions (not the claim avoidance sort) are preventing children from learning about the world and having fun as well.

When I was a kid there was always someone with a limb in plaster from jumping/falling off something while at play and there were lasting injuries and indeed tragedies, but on the whole kids learned what hurt and what to avoid.

We are losing all this and breeding fat yobs wrapped in cotton wool. [/serious]

Completely agreed, but until the vast majority of parents come to the same conclusion then the OTT H&S restrictions are necessary in order to protect institutions. Which in the main are funded by our taxes. Personally I'd rather the kids had a couple of days off school and they had the thousands of pounds to spend on actual school related items rather than on paying some numpty who thought they'd make a quick buck suing someone.
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Re: School snow closures cause THIS:
« Reply #28 on: February 04, 2009, 01:23:23 PM »
Quote from: Nick on February 04, 2009, 01:13:08 PM
Hear hear. I can't recall the last time I saw some kid bandaged up like a mummy.

Conversely, droppng my children off at school last week we saw a lad they know hobbling past on crutches. In the conversation that followed they remarked that there's always some child sporting a broken limb or some such in the school.
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Re: School snow closures cause THIS:
« Reply #29 on: February 04, 2009, 01:25:08 PM »
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