Treeclimbing to be banned?

[short-circuit]

Don't forget, school BOTs (for better but mostly worse) run schools now - not government.

[James Deuce]

Don't forget, school BOTs (for better but mostly worse) run schools now - not government.

BOTs in schools Decile 5 and above are mostly made up of women.

Most of the primary schools in the Hutt have mixed age classes. The ones that don't are generally Catholic.

[Pixie]

Where the hell would the human race be now if no one took risks.
Maybe we should bubblewrap all children?Fucking Nanny State...

In some dinosaur's stomach

[FROSTY:Me]

Hmm well baby bikies comment pretty well nails it "Yep Im still gonna climb trees daddy,Just not when teachers are watching"
ONYA BOY!!!!

[p.dath]

I can see it now "ten year old boy suffers learning injury - teaching banned at school".

[pete376403]

Kids need to learn some things can hurt. Otherwise they grow up thinking they are invincible, and when they get their first car, they quickly find out that this is not the case.
I wonder if kids who get bikes first are from families that allow a bit of risk-taking and finding out what is ok to do and what is not (but not necessarily what is safe) whereas kids that get into cars have been more protected while young.

[Big Dave]

Bad luck Tarzan.
My ancestors climbed down from the trees.
I've never felt any desire to go back up.

(Monkey ropes over rivers exempted.)

[sAsLEX]

Bad luck Tarzan.
My ancestors climbed down from the trees.
I've never felt any desire to go back up.

(Monkey ropes over rivers exempted.)

It a good way to develop hand eye co-ordination, muscle strength, flexibility and balance...... maybe he should go to his technology and play a bit of Playstation like the rest of todays yoof

[98tls]

If i was a kid id say pftt and climb them anyway,not like you can smack me for it.

[Usarka]

Hmm well baby bikies comment pretty well nails it "Yep Im still gonna climb trees daddy,Just not when teachers are watching"
ONYA BOY!!!!

Humans need risk. If we're denied it legally we seek it illegally.

Funny that 10 year olds know this but all the clowns in charge don't......

[R6_kid:Me]

Tree climbing was banned at all schools I attended since way back in 1992. If not to keep the trees in condition, then definitely to stop things like this from happening.

While you are quite open minded Frosty other parents will want to drop an A-bomb on the school for their kid not being supervised while tree climbing and subsequently cracking their poor little head open, or worse. Would you still be so ok with it if he'd landed just a little bit more vertical and paralysed himself or worse yet crossed himself out of the great human race?

Seems like a smart move to me. If they were to ban tree climbing full stop (as in on private property) then there is a problem. What your kid does at home under your supervision is a whole different ball park compared to what a teacher is prepared to be responsible for, and fair enough too.

[Big Dave]

It a good way to develop hand eye co-ordination, muscle strength, flexibility and balance......

So does juggling on a unicycle and it's not nearly as dumbarse.

[short-circuit]

So does juggling on a unicycle and it's not nearly as dumbarse.

Tree climbing is only slightly dumbarse if you're 40+ and six and a half feet tall

[BiK3RChiK]

Ha! Reminds me of my risk-taking daughter... She climbed onto the roof at the High School she attends (more than once) and all hell broke loose! Now, my son just wouldn't even consider doing something like that... He broke his arm on the 'safe' playground at Primary School and I think the pain of the snapped bone was enough to put him off for life!!

[98tls]

It a good way to develop hand eye co-ordination, muscle strength, flexibility and balance...... maybe he should go to his technology and play a bit of Playstation like the rest of todays yoof

Or schools could be provided with fleets of Trials bikes,the upside being later in life when attempting a simple wave whilst on the move moments like this could be avoided.