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| UK School Bans Swimming Goggles; Pome Land is going ******* crazy | |
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| Topic Started: 30 Jun 2009, 07:31 PM (293 Views) | |
| johnyardley | 30 Jun 2009, 07:31 PM Post #1 |
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Hi, Please read the story found by clicking on THIS link. So let's just think about this - googles are to stop kids getting chlorine in their eyes - kids that snapped each others googles - immature behaviour , and kids that struggled to put on their own goggles OVERRIDE the importance of stopping chlorine getting in their eyes? Is this story really about this or the fact that teachers are not supported legally to discipline their students in the teaching environments. In many UK classrooms teachers have lost respect of the kids because they can't effectively discipline students and 10% of these students affect the pace of delivery of for all students teaching subjects making lessons boring. I would be interested to hear if anything similar happens in Victoria? Best wishes John |
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| bigAPE | 30 Jun 2009, 08:30 PM Post #2 |
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Not seen it yet here in private or council swimming pools. I'm a swimming teacher and encourage kids to wear goggles, but only if they want to, as some don't. Modern salt chlorinated pools make a huge difference to eye irritation. If kids muck around with goggles I do take them off them. I've never had a case where anyone else has broken a pair of goggles but kids from an early age should be taught to keep their hand to themselves. Difficult I know. Health, Safety and Discipline all go hand in hand in the swimming pool, but I suppose the bottom line is these kids probably wouldn't careless if you sat them out and would just give you verbal or worse if you tried the tough drill sergeant approach. |
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| Pom Down Under | 1 Jul 2009, 04:42 PM Post #3 |
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My son is encouraged to wear Goggles when swimming at school. As BigApe says, kids are tought respect for themselves and others, which includes keeping their hands to themselves. |
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| koalakim | 3 Jul 2009, 09:09 PM Post #4 |
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Got another good one......as you may have heard we've had a bit of a heatwave over here, not only has the Govt been issuing warnings on how to deal with the heat (obviously has never been hot here before) but some schools have banned kids bringing in suncream to school in case they share it with some kids who are allergic to it. So the poor little blighters can burn! Mind you in our day we did just burn :)! The nanny state has been in full force this week during the heatwave....maybe our brains are too addled with the heat to be able to think for ourselves. Still it's only been 30 ....nothing compared to our Mellie heatwave! Kim |
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| johnyardley | 3 Jul 2009, 10:29 PM Post #5 |
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Hi Kim, This way of thinking is treating the effect and not the cause - the cause being kids having a 'little' discipline instilled into them. Anyway, there was a news report that UK is almost at stage 4 hear health warning which is 4 days of head 30 degrees c during the day and 15 during the night. See THIS link for further info. Stage 4 - Emergency - Reached when a heatwave is so severe and/or prolonged that its effects extend outside the health and social care system. At this level, illness and death may occur among the fit and healthy, and not just in high-risk groups Last year I remember being in Melbourne and there was a news report that adelaide had daytime temperatures over 40 degrees c for more than 3 weeks. I love the heat, just need to be sensible Best wishes John N.B still paln to come out in Oct (alone?) |
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| OzTennis | 5 Jul 2009, 04:40 AM Post #6 |
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A new one to add to the list: 4 primary schools in East Bedfordshire held their sports day this past week and the authorities banned ALL parents from attending. They 'reasoned' that with so many parents attending they couldn't guarantee that a paedophile or two might not be present! |
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| johnyardley | 5 Jul 2009, 07:24 AM Post #7 |
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from bad to worse....... |
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| bigAPE | 5 Jul 2009, 09:28 AM Post #8 |
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More fool the parents for accepting this type of rubbish. |
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| Cupid Stunt | 6 Jul 2009, 12:48 PM Post #9 |
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did they ban the teachers from attending too? |
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