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Young baby bikie (10 year old boy) stretched out a bit far whilst climbing a tree a couple of days back. The inevitable happened and he did the big splat -cracked his head in the process. No big deal Kids being kids and trees being there to be climbed.
Not so simple.He made the mistake of falling at school.
The school is now having a meeting looking to ban all tree climbing on school grounds. Honest injun I thought they were kidding me.
If that isn't PC gone insane what is??
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The instructions are simple...
Not surprising. They don't want H+S on their backs.
The problem is when you stop kids being kids, what you achieve is a load of repressed, under-achieving adults.
Do you realise how many holes there could be if people would just take the time to take the dirt out of them?
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What's it got to do with politics?Originally Posted by FROSTY
parting of the sensory
I'm surprised it wasn't banned already. Most schools and parks already have the trees pruned so that you can't get up into them.
Yeah, it's PC gone to mental extremes. Like playgrounds, where the equipment is so safe and boring that the kids resort to climbing up the outside of it and onto the top.
Personally, I blame the adventure tourism operators.
I reckon they're giving the bureaucrats backhanders (not that they need much encouragement) to make everything safe and boring, so it fuels the hunger for excitement and danger.
... and that's what I think.
Or summat.
Or maybe not...
Dunno really....
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Just wait until he falls off his bike, trips over the steps etc...boy, where will it end?
And then when he trips over his own shoe-laces that YOU didn't teach him how to tie properly - look out!
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I thought it was already banned at alot of schools? Shocking I know!
ter·ra in·cog·ni·taAchievement is not always success while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.
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And again - This term is such bullshit.
What it is, is a misguided approach to child rearing
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The reason for the approach is quite simple.
Women are generally risk averse, men generally aren't.
Single parent families are generally managed by women.
Schools are generally run and staffed by women, especially primary schools where tree climbing is a certainty.
Make teaching attractive for men (pay men and women above average wages for teaching and you'll get above average teachers) and stop demanding that men work 14 hour days AND have a balanced family life.
If a man is alone in the woods and there isn't a woke Hollywood around to call him racist, is he still white?
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Where the hell would the human race be now if no one took risks.
Maybe we should bubblewrap all children?Fucking Nanny State...
Give a man a gun and he can rob a bank...
Give a man a bank he can rob the WORLD !!!
sem fiddy pilot
All school kids should be issued with the big don't-fuck-with-me Stihl chainsaw.
That'll learn those trees
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Unfortunately schools are no longer managed by the state.
Like James Deuce is suggesting this shit is societal
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Agreed, and I believe if we don't already see the impact of banning tree climbing, we will.
Something so small inhibits kids from testing boundaries at a young age.
I guess if you have trees at your gaff, let them climb them. But don't whinge if they splat.
ter·ra in·cog·ni·taAchievement is not always success while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.
Orison Swett Marden
parting of the sensory
Sort of.
If you look at the history of public schooling, it used to be mixed age group classrooms (which worked reasonably well), until the Gummint waaaayyy back when decided to make it age-group and 'skills' based, as part of the beginning of social programming policy. The 'skills' part of it quite neatly matched socio-economic group as well. Since then, it's been all downhill. You know the rest...
... and that's what I think.
Or summat.
Or maybe not...
Dunno really....
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Garbage - age grouping kids is more efficient: In high schools, year groups are further broken down into different bands - try as a teacher trying to cater to different ability ranges let alone age ranges as well.
And on a related point - there's also age appropriate curriculum content to consider also
Rasta Ratskins
The kindergartens have to have all the trees marked at 600mm [2'] and that is as high as the kids can climb in theory. But of course the child that falls out of the tree, and that is quite rare, is the same child that will fall off the barrier you put up to stop them climbing the tree, and so on. Risk takers will always find a way to hurt themselves.
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