Posted on 09/27/2008 3:37:36 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
Teachers have sparked fury by banning pupils from playing in the playground before school - for health and safety reasons.
Children have been ordered not to play in the 15 minutes before lessons start - in case parents or their young children get injured at Ashburton Junior School in Croydon, south London.
Adam Bates, 31, whose 10-year-old son Shane had a tennis ball confiscated last week, said today: "It's ridiculous, the kids are deprived of valuable play time in the morning.
"Everyone's always going on about exercise but this school is clamping down on it.
"My kids really look forward to playing in the morning and this has really soured their mood.
"Shane is in his last year, but my five-year-old, Lucy, is going into her first and I don't want her to be educated in an environment like that.
But headteacher Lesley Lynam insisted pupils have plenty of playtime during the school day, and at after school clubs.
She added: "We have the no-play rule in place between 8.45am and 9am for health and safety reasons and everyone's protection.
"We simply can't have tennis balls flying around and kids knocking into parents and babies. People would get hurt otherwise."
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Yeah, I wish I had done that then. I can certainly do it now.
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