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Pesky parents wanting to actually be involved with their kids and their school activities. Who do they think they are?
More than 270 pupils from four primary schools in Bedfordshire took part in the East Beds School Sports Partnership Athletics Day. But there were no spectators present because the organisers said allowing them would make it impossible to prevent “unsavoury” characters from attending. A risk assessment concluded that the host school, Sandy Upper School in Biggleswade, could not “guarantee the children’s safety”.
Parents have condemned the ban.
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Paul Blunt, development manager at the East Beds School Sports Partnership, said the “ultimate fear” was that a child could be abducted.“If we let parents into the school they would have been free to roam the grounds. All unsupervised adults must be kept away from children.
“An unsavoury character could have come in and we just can’t put the children in the event or the students at the host school at risk like that. The ultimate fear is that a child is hurt or abuducted, and we must take all measures possible to prevent that.”
#17
It’s all the Republicans fault…really? Even in UK? The mantra is old, tired and worn out.
On the other hand, if teachers are the only ones allowed to interact with the children – the US is going to have to do a much better job than they currently do in keeping the pedophiles out of the teaching profession.
And if parents aren’t allowed to be around the school with children – there’s no one to say who did what to which child.
And just for the sake of fun – these are rules set out by the teachers union…a liberal democrat controlled organization.
They could have just gathered a list of all names of all children that participate, then at the door only allow people, to show some sort of identification, inside that are parents of the children.
Either that or how about organizing the activities so that no child is left unattended!!! Ugh… these people!
#21 yeah, it’s the teachers!
You are a product of sensational media overdose. No more Nancy Grace for you!
This is so dumb… of course you can’t guarantee safety, Top IT security experts can’t guarantee 100% security either, guess we should just stop doing anything IT.
I wonder how much the risk assessment cost to find out something I just did in 5 seconds.
Here’s a solution. Lock up all the kids in a room with no windows and let only the principle have the key. We can now guarantee safety.
Let’s then go on a 1-month long vacation. We’ll let them out when we come back.
I seem to remember an episode of South Park. Something about Mongolians and a “Great Wall”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_Abduction_Is_Not_Funny
#23
Who is Nancy? Someone on Entertainment Tonight? Sorry, not a show I watch.
Never mind…did a google search. Answer’s still the same…not a show I watch-guess I lead a sheltered life:)
Since when is it these UK school’s duty to police society? Yeah, but while they’re worried about pedophiles. I’ll bet they still don’t do a damn thing about school bullies. And from what I’ve been hearing, the real threat of pedophiles has been some of the instructors. Not invited parents. This ban is just one more step towards the State taking children away for several years, and returning them to mom and dad, only when its thought the children have been properly indoctrinated.
I’m wondering. Is Home Schooling allowed in the UK? Or are they afraid that only pedophiles will Home School? Or some other tommy-rot excuse for preventing parents from raising their children with a free will, not smothered by the State.