school sports day - poor teachers

[Joy Yeomans]

arrgghh - a rant coming on here - popped in to my eldests school sports day - it was lasting all DAY - once race at a time, my eldest was only in one race at the beginning of the day and asked me to drop off first thing to see him - 2 hours later still not ran.

 

teacher comes over to me, i ask "when i was at school, sports day lasted at best an afternoon with track and field multi events going on all the time, children moving from one activity to another and taking part in all activities" - teacher" health and safety i cannot watch all the children at once, and i am the only one trained in PE out of the school"

 

yet again H&S being blamed - i said if a risk assessment had been carried out and any risk mitigated by risk assessment it should be ok, oh no , a teacher got sued she said recently - so we;re not risking it.

 

so all the teachers were sun bathing all blooming day - apart from the pe teacher - and they want more pension - arrraggghhh

[likeitorlumpit]

I know someone who told me that they spoke to someone that saw someone who once had an issue with H&S

what a load of c++p

[Mesterh]

Dont blame them.

 

If some kid had an accident the parents would be on it like a rash RA or not.

 

Tis the way of the world, best to just let it slide.

[likeitorlumpit]

do we blame the parents

yes.....

kids need danger:thumbup:

[treequip]

- and they want more pension - arrraggghhh

 

 

I thought they just didnt want less?

[likeitorlumpit]

Just heard the government is scrapping 142 of the 150 pages of school H&S stuff so thats good news.

Parents who kick off when little johnny gets a scratch or breaks a bone are just the scum of the earth adding costs to our childrens education and removing oportunities. Other than javelin /shot/discus throwing- how dangerous can a sports day be

[easy-lift guy]

Some school Districts here in the states also ban other such sports like Dodge ball, Kick ball, Tag, etc. I don't think our OSHA has so much to do with it but the School Boards and Districts either don't want to be bothered because of Cost/Liability or because the sport is no longer PC, the latter infuriates me to no end. Just another generation of Cry Babies for the Government to coddle. BTW the sports are not dangerous, the teachers don't want the kids to learn about competition and sportsmanship.

elg