School Zone Malarky

Dammit; I've already taken a new sigfile!

 

I spent nought to thirteen hiding from my father!
On the night he died I was still hesitant about getting too close to him in
case he suddenly got better and walloped me!
After a few cursory attempts at mouth-to-mouth and cardiac-massage (more to
please my distraught mother than any genuine attempt to prolong his life) I
was happy to see him carted out by the undertakers.
I still had nightmares about him coming back for the next ten years though!

 

You can teach kids the rules all you want but they are still kids and
will do stupid things.
It's the adults that need more education.

 

Correct me if I'm wrong, but if you give the education to kids, then
dont they end up being adults? Have you made this connection yet?
Babies > Kids > Adults

paulh

 

I bet you also got some form of road safety education, I certainly did
at primary school from 1956 to 1961.
AFAIK this had been dropped a long time before my kids went to school
starting in the mid 80's.
There is a lot more traffic around schools these days so IMO the need
for road safety education for children is greater but they don't bother.


Daryl

 

Kids become adults and do stupid things, see the connection. Teach them,
they can and will learn. I did, and so did all the other kids of my
generation that were systematically drilled on the road rules. It becomes
second nature and THAT ALONE WILL SAVE THEIR LIVES.

It's much easier to teach kids, and I suggest you hop to it because it is
YOUR responsibility.

 

Nonsense, read some of my other posts.

 

Yep, so you don't want some stupid kid with no sense for road safety to
run/ride in front of them.

 

I was taught *about* the road rules.
Like, why they were rules.
Then the rules.

Might explain my aversion to stupid and arbitrary rules - you know,
the ones that simply never did make sense, and never will

 

Paul dont play semantics I don't have time for your bullshit
You know well as I it's the TIME IN BETWEEN.
Don't bother replying to me cos I don't play your word games or mid fucks.

 

All the non teachers in here make me laugh
Of course they teach road safety in primary schools.

 

They are still kids and make mistakes as they go along.
Can't you see the connection?

 

I've got 2 sisters who are primary teachers and I have asked them if
they teach kids road safety and their answer is no.
My 2 sons (19 and 22) weren't taught road safety at school.
The primary school where my boys attended recently installed a "traffic
school" and its the only facility of its type in the area so maybe the
schools are finally getting the message.



Daryl

 

People make mistakes, fullstop.

Make them aware of THEIR responsibilities towards road usage and they will
be safer. Can't you see the connection?

Wrapping them up in cotton wool and trying to change the world around them
doesn't do anyone any good.

 

I forgot about bike ed., whilst that is road safety education its only a
couple of days a year compared to the almost daily road safety education
I got in the 50's.




Daryl

 

Which state?
we even teach driver education here at our school for year 10's.

 

Who said anything about wrapping them up in cotton wool?
I took exception to bully's let natural selection sort them out.
I am saying that kids being kids will always **** up no matter how much
you educate them because they dont have the benefit of experience or the
developmental skills.
They develop as their brain develops.

 

I didn't get any road safety training at all at Murmungee PS in 1956!

Moike

 

Did Murmungee PS have traffic in 1956 though?

G-S

 

well, ther is that. But within 25 years there were traffic lights only
22 mikes away.