Is There Anything These Days That Is Not A Danger To Children?

anotheoldgit | 09:22 Thu 10th Jul 2014 | News

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2686823/Loom-bands-health-risk-says-GP-Parents-told-craze-damage-childrens-circulation-schools-introduce-bans.html

/// But now head teachers are increasingly banning pupils from bringing the bands to school. ///

/// There are reports they have been used as catapults in classrooms and led to playground disputes over copying designs. ///

Wow catapults in the classrooms, years ago it was common practice, an elastic band around two fingers, firing a piece of ink sodden blotting paper was common practice in the classroom of yesteryear.

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ludwig

// Not sure what was good about being hit on the head with a wooden blackboard rubber. //

Nothing Naomi. Last time it happened to me I dropped my slate on my foot and broke a toe.

woofgang

those clackers were banned because they would shatter under use and throw sharp bits around.
number 7.
http://www.burlingamepezmuseum.com/bannedtoy/

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douglas9401

Ah, slate, how we longed for their return after the introduction of the cheap, reusable wax tablet. :)

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pixie373

/// Neither was i:-) ///

Then why did you bring today's child mortality rates into it, I cannot see what that has to do with "a danger to children these days"?

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They will soon be discovering that chemistry lessons, wood work lessons and domestic science lessons are far too dangerous for our children.

Think of all those lethal chemicals, those very sharp wood work tools, not to mention those very hot pans, irons, and extremely sharp knitting and sewing needles.

ludwig

// Ah, slate, how we longed for their return after the introduction of the cheap, reusable wax tablet. :) //

The hydrogen filled sponge blackboard rubber. That's what I longed for Douglas. There never was any such thing, but I always wished there had been.

naomi24

So Ludwig, Douglas, tell me chaps, what was papyrus really like to write on? :o)

Svejk

papyrus? spoilt you was. clay tablets was all we could afford.

naomi24

They woz posh. ;o)

Svejk

I do remember 'ink-pots' in the desk and scratchy nibs that you dipped in them, lol.

whirlyhurly

Not forgetting those Bunsen burners, along with the accompanying asbestos mats. No worries.

Booldawg

wasnt it conkers that were banned many years ago because they posed an H&S risk?

inksplotter

"Sticking in front of a tv with a game controller is safe..."

Playing Q*Bert?

stuey

When I went to school it was quite a dangerous undertaking. To get to the school we had to pick our way through an alley bordered by brick walls topped with concrete in which was embedded shards of glass. When we arrived at the school it was surrounded by an iron fence which had the uprights adorned with a spear point. The playground surface was covered with cinders with a grit of about 10. The interiors of the still standing bomb shelters were booby-trapped with broken bottles and other menacing discarded items. Also the nuns had all taken a course in the lethal use of the ruler. The majority of us survived.

DTCwordfan

aog - that has already happened - A level biology - we had to be able to dissect out arterial and nervous systems of rats, dogfish etc - this they don't do now and prospective doctors only start using a scalpel in seriousness at the 1st year of Uni - a bit late to find out if you have/or have not the necessary knife skills. I would suspect that Sqad would go bananas over this.

stuey

Incidentally, our trek to school was fraught with danger in the respect that we had to find our own way there and back by walking, busing, or biking: I never saw any anxious parent lurking around the gates or rumbling vehicles awaiting to engorge us and whisk us safely home. I think that we all survived and repeated the same arduous foray the very next day.