In the 50's this teacher would've been considered a God
Fucking cotton wool society.
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Jeccius Steam Borderlands 2 junkie, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 11:56,
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ridiculous
Good bloke.
Although those old sledges *really* did hurt when they hit you!
Edit:
‘A number of pupils stayed behind interested and excited,’ he added. ‘They wanted to see it in use and, giving it some thought, I agreed.’
The experienced teacher said he conducted a ‘mental risk assessment’ before sliding down a small slope, covered in two to three inches of snow, on the sledge.
Two of the pupils, aged 15, then volunteered to ride the sledge, one after the other.
Mr Tremelling said: ‘I told the first boy to follow the track marks that I’d laid out – which he did in a safe manner.
‘I wanted to demonstrate sledge control so I moved to a different slope. I went first – it was a bit fast so I was not happy for the child to go from the top.
‘He started from halfway down the slope and completed the turn correctly.
‘The whole process took less than ten minutes and I was sure it reinforced their knowledge.’
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zacherynuk @echo off, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 12:05,
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‘A number of pupils stayed behind interested and excited,’ he added. ‘They wanted to see it in use and, giving it some thought, I agreed.’
The experienced teacher said he conducted a ‘mental risk assessment’ before sliding down a small slut, covered in two to three inches of ... slut.
Two of the pupils, aged 15, then volunteered to ride the slut, one after the other.
Mr Tremelling said: ‘I told the first boy to follow the track marks that I’d laid out – which he did in a safe manner.
‘I wanted to demonstrate slut control so I moved to a different slut. I went first – it was a bit fast so I was not happy for the child to go from the top.
‘He started from halfway down the slut and completed the turn correctly.
‘The whole process took less than ten minutes and I was sure it reinforced their knowledge.’
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 15:19, Reply)
Hmmm,
actually reading the detail it doesn't seem to be about H&S as he was cleared on those specific issues.
Seems more like the Head doesn't like him and this was a good excuse to bin him.
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Blackdogmanguitar is out with Fat Larry's Jazz Band on, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 12:06,
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^^ This
Or doesn't like seeing kids having fun or being excited when in school without his/her prior written permission.
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 12:52, Reply)
Agreed
I think there's more to this than meets the eye, and he was 'convicted' of breaking rules about consultation and permission rather than any health & safety issues.
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 13:29, Reply)
Fucking ridiculous
This Nanny State of tree hugging jobsworths does my fucking head in.
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Flash_Bastard, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 12:09,
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What's it got to do with "tree hugging"
It's all those bloody "tree huggers" who want kids to have a bit of freedom and most definitely "tree huggers" who are pissed off with H&S preventing any kind of contact with the real world. It's the modular, one-size-fits-all, industrial driven system that deems kids to be incapable of judging risk.
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 13:03, Reply)
It's not H&S directly
so much as a fear of litigation.
H&S rules tend to be quite sensible. The way they're applied or overused... not so sensible.
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 13:24,
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what's it got to do with "tree hugging"?
It's all those bloody "tree huggers" who want kids to have a bit of freedom and most definitely "tree huggers" who are pissed off with H&S preventing any kind of contact with the real world. It's the modular, one-size-fits-all, industrial driven system that deems kids to be incapable of judging risk.
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 13:05, Reply)
that's ridiculous
in my day it was all monkey bars and slides on a concrete playground, where there wasn't a week that didn't go by where you didn't have scabs on your knees, not from carpet friction burns unfortunately, but from cold hard gravel. Taught me to respect the laws of gravity.
It's all soft play areas and wood chips everywhere. Kids these days will never know what it's like to pick a huge scab and dare one of your mates to eat it.
In relation to the teacher, that's a bit of a shitter, I bet he was popular.
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flapmeister knows where your mum lives, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 12:10,
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On
the other hand, they'll probably also never discover what it's like to watch their best mate go into a fit, haemorrhage massively and die after falling off a swing and hitting their head, as my sister got to do when she was eight.
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 12:28, Reply)
that's tragic
and I'm sorry it happened. I'll try and be less flippant in future.
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flapmeister knows where your mum lives, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 14:00,
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I remember...
when i was a kid, they took us all sledging once in the mid 80's. We got given a plastic sack each, and one large plastic tarpaulin that about ten of us could sit on, while the teachers stood at the bottom of the hill, smoking.
It was probably the best school day of my life.
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 12:18, Reply)
I reckon if it manages to snow again in Jan or Feb...
every teacher in the school should take all the kids out for a massive snowball fight and sledging extravaganza, and not fill in any forms.
School can't sack everyone...
Though statistically, doing that would probably end up with someone getting seriously injured, and then the rules getting made even tighter...ahem
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guffguff fuckes your gradeds balls!, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 12:19,
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this
pisses me right off!
The Headteacher is called MS Hollister and you can email abuse here .. (modedit: email deleted - calls for public harassment are dodgy. Stop it.)
Already told her what I think of her :-)
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 12:26, Reply)
Someone has lost their job ffs
.. what about this guys family and kids .. do you think he'll easily get another job? She deserves all the abuse she gets for being the shittest Head Teacher in the World! Career ruined for 10 minutes of safe sledging wtf?
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 13:48, Reply)
yeah thanks for that email address, very helpful.
I'm just going to let them know that if they've received any abusive emails and wish to trace who sent them, the following may help:
Name: Paul
Location: Leeds .. UK
Position: Seated
Age: 34
Favourite Place: Thailand
Music: Trance / House
Films: Shawshank Redemption .. Thomas Crown Affair
Wealth: Moderate
Status : Single
OK? cool.
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spesh., Tue 11 Jan 2011, 14:40,
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hahaha
*clicks*
That's all the info you need, right there.
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Firkinfedup last shat on your wife's tits at, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 17:02,
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Does anyone ever wonder
if maybe 'cos H&S and litigious culture has put paid to any supervised 'risk' that may be why kids, between that time of school hometime and adults getting home from work, might feel the need to go a little bit nuts?
Maybe if they had more supervised thrills they'd feel less inclined to go kicking in bus shelters or riding bikes into busy traffic as soon as schools out?
Just a thought...
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..wil, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 12:37,
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This is something I might have read and found funny years ago in Viz letterbollocks.
Sad to say it really is true now.
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 12:44, Reply)
we used to play a game
called pirates at school.
Basically the PE teacher got out all the PE equipment (ropes, horsebox, vaulting equipment, spring board and we'd have to see how fast we could get around the gym not touching the floor.
Another game called murder ball involved two teams, two goals and a medicine ball. Those were the only rules.
Happy days
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shitkicker, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 12:46,
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You must have gone to the same school as me!
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Blackdogmanguitar is out with Fat Larry's Jazz Band on, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 13:04,
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That depends
For games afternoons did you get the choice of:
1) Rugby
and
2) Cross Country which involved being dumped at the top of Ilkley Moor in the middle of winter and being told to find your way back to the school minibus while the teacher sat in said minibus smoking cigarettes, drinking whiskey from a hip flask and nodding off.
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shitkicker, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 13:21,
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No :(
Sounds like a good teaching job though!
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Blackdogmanguitar is out with Fat Larry's Jazz Band on, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 14:17,
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PE Teachers...
some of the most accomplished sadists the world has ever known.
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barryheadwound Mul-ti-pass? Multipass!, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 13:21,
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One of our PE teachers
who was also our Geography teacher, was a right sadist. One pisstaker in class was tortured by being lifted off his chair by his biceps; fingers dug around each muscle and the kid squealed like a motherfucker until he was dropped back onto his chair.
Nowadays that's called abuse, years back though that was AWESOME.
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Jeccius Steam Borderlands 2 junkie, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 13:49,
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Our English teacher
had a habit of grabbing people by the hair.
He did this to one kid in our class so the kid spent the rest of the class cutting pieces of his hair off.
By the end of the lesson he had quite a pile on his desk, stuck his hand in the air and complained to the teacher that he had made him start to go bald.
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shitkicker, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 13:59,
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it says ....
"A model of the sledge used by Mr Tremelling".
No, it's a photograph. Say it after me 'a pho - to - graph'
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Kung_Fu_Russ ran out of amusing signatures on, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 13:31,
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