Crocodiles of small school children out in high-viz tabards

[betty swollocks]

escorted by teachers(?) also in high-viz.
On the pavement.
Seen a lot of this lately.
What's that all about?

 

[Fnaar]

It's a walking bus.

 

[dellzeqq]

it is, but it's sad to see.

 

[ChrisKH]

They're teaching them road awareness, possibly. Or taking them to the library for an afternoon's reading or a presentation by an author. Or possibly 'walk to school' trains? Our kids school are looking into this. But nothing will happen.

 

[dmoan]

Schools trying to ensure that they continue to offer school trips and visits while balancing the risk of teachers being sued silly should an accident occur or a kid get lost while on said trip.

Hi-viz makes it easier to spot the kids and makes it easier for the kids to be spotted.

Sue, sue, sue your friends, sue your Mum and Dad
Everybody's doing it so you know it can't be bad...

 

[rich p]

They're teaching them road awareness, possibly. Or taking them to the library for an afternoon's reading or a presentation by an author. Or possibly 'walk to school' trains? Our kids school are looking into this. But nothing will happen.

Only if the author has had a CRB check

 

[Dayvo]

My g/f works at a nursery school and it's been the norm for 5-6 years here.

It's for easy recognition, both by nursery school teachers and for motorists. If a child goes missing, the tel. no. of the nursery school is on the hi-viz vest!

 

[ComedyPilot]

A 1947 book by J. S. Dean, former Chairman of the Pedestrians’ Association, is instructive here. In his ‘study of the road deaths problem’, Murder Most Foul, Dean's basic tenet is that, ‘as roads are only “dangerous” by virtue of being filled with heavy fast moving motor vehicles, by far the greatest burden of responsibility for avoiding crashes, deaths and injury on the roads should lie with the motorist’ (Peel n.d., 3).

Seems sad that the burden of responsibility to avoid an incident should lie on the young shoulders of the most vulnerable road users?

 

[Norm]

My g/f works at a nursery school and it's been the norm for 5-6 years here.

Don't bring me into it. I've been banned from nurseries for much of that time!

(I should point out that Mrs Norm works with kids and I've been CRB approved. )

 

[Davidc]

It's just like cycle helmets. Walking has to be seen to be dangerous to encourage children to refuse to go anywhere if they're not in a nice safe car.

 

[ComedyPilot]

It's just like cycle helmets. Walking has to be seen to be dangerous to encourage children to refuse to go anywhere if they're not in a nice safe car.

And of course we are inundated on a daily basis in the media of the carnage on our roads, where multiple lives are lost in pedestrian accidents.

 

[Davidc]

And of course we are inundated on a daily basis in the media of the carnage on our roads, where multiple lives are lost in pedestrian accidents.

And that's only the ones caused by cyclists

 

[summerdays]

Having accompanied children to the swimming pool - it does make it easier to keep an eye on them, and in a group they can be daft - I have seen a child push another into the road as a car was coming (not on purpose) they were just fooling around not concentrating on their surroundings. Look at it this way - they were walking to the pool rather than being shipped there by bus or car.

 

[betty swollocks]

A 1947 book by J. S. Dean, former Chairman of the Pedestrians’ Association, is instructive here. In his ‘study of the road deaths problem’, Murder Most Foul, Dean's basic tenet is that, ‘as roads are only “dangerous” by virtue of being filled with heavy fast moving motor vehicles, by far the greatest burden of responsibility for avoiding crashes, deaths and injury on the roads should lie with the motorist’ (Peel n.d., 3).

Seems sad that the burden of responsibility to avoid an incident should lie on the young shoulders of the most vulnerable road users?

I think (sadly) you've hit it on the head here.

The Risk Assessment (I bet there is one) for teachers taking the kids out is that they (the kids) MUST wear high-viz.
At what age do the kids not have to wear high-viz? I've only seen it on the very small ones.

 

[ChrisKH]

A 1947 book by J. S. Dean, former Chairman of the Pedestrians’ Association, is instructive here. In his ‘study of the road deaths problem’, Murder Most Foul, Dean's basic tenet is that, ‘as roads are only “dangerous” by virtue of being filled with heavy fast moving motor vehicles, by far the greatest burden of responsibility for avoiding crashes, deaths and injury on the roads should lie with the motorist’ (Peel n.d., 3).

Seems sad that the burden of responsibility to avoid an incident should lie on the young shoulders of the most vulnerable road users?

Agreed. Why should I have to make sure I can be seen? What's wrong with a Dayglo Volvo?