Parents are campaigning for a new lollipop lady outside two schools on a busy road.What’s wrong with having a lollipop man then?
Fears are growing that Ghyllgrove Infant and Junior School in The Gore, Basildon, will not have its lollipop lady replaced.
Parents are in full ‘What about the chiiiiillllreeeeen!?’ mode:
Teresa Dereve, whose daughter Summer, four, attends the infant school, said: “If there’s no crossing supervisor it’s an accident waiting to happen.Another accident?
“Is it going to take another accident for them to realise how important it is? It’s outrageous.”
Ghyllgrove Infant School head teacher Jean Clark said she feared for the safety of the more than 300 students at the two schools.Well, duh! How about you teach your charges a bit of road safety then?
She said: “Two children were struck there before we got the crossing. That’s why parents campaigned back then to have a lollipop person.
“I am really worried, really concerned.
“When you come out of the school we do have quite a high ramp, but if students just come running out they could get hit by a passing car.”
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I always had to chuckle whenever I saw a lollipop lady outside a school, holding up a contraceptive board .. which read "STOP Children" ..
None of the parents ever seemed to cotton-on .. ;)
Like those boxes of matches, Captain, with "Keep away from children" printed on them. A very sensible piece of advice, I've always thought.
“When you come out of the school we do have quite a high ramp, but if students just come running out they could get hit by a passing car."
If they "just come running out", they are almost as likely to get run over whether there is a lollipoppist there or not.
And "students", FFS? They're small children, not effing students. "Kids", "children" or "pupils".
I made my way to and from primary school from age 7 without parental accompaniment or the intervention of "crossing supervisors". A journey involving the crossing of one busy road. Perhaps my survival is a miracle. 'Course this was Manchester in the 1950s and the horseless carriage hadn't quite reached the North by then.
How about building streets for people, not cars.
Just a thought.
Children walk and cycle to school safely in most other European countries.
And "students", FFS? They're small children, not effing students. "Kids", "children" or "pupils".
Edwin, you are lucky they don't use 'service users'!
Any school that uses "students" for 4 year olds is probably too PC for Tufty:
http://www.tuftyclub.org.uk/
I blame paper tissues, in my day you got a hanky with Tufty on.
How about you teach your charges a bit of road safety then?
I think your ideas of what schools' primary function is is sadly out of step with that of the modern educational establishment, Julia. < rolls eyes > Teaching? Pffft.
"A very sensible piece of advice, I've always thought."
Impossible to take, though; the little buggers are everywhere!
"And "students", FFS? They're small children, not effing students. "Kids", "children" or "pupils". "
Especially primary school kids!
"How about building streets for people, not cars."
We do. It's the roads that are for cars.
"Children walk and cycle to school safely in most other European countries."
Then perhaps it's the quality of the children that's the defining measure, and not the quality of driving.
Just a thought..
"< rolls eyes > Teaching? Pffft."
Good point! I expect we can't rely on the parents either...
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