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It was introduced before my school years but according to this but it must not have been in our area..
To be fair, was it just last year that the first pylons carrying electricity entered Yorkshire?
It was introduced before my school years but according to this but it must not have been in our area..
We did it in our school back in 1966 along with a trip to the pool once a week for swimming lessons.Did anyone ever get one of these? I never did but I remember the police going around to schools testing cyclists: View attachment 571120
Would it be a good idea to introduce it again? And what about for mature riders?
Kids love certificates and badges.Round here there is still cycle training in primary schools (in normal times) and our cycle campaign provides free confidence training. No badges or certificates though, but you've got me thinking @Cycleops ...
Maybe not in your experience, although I remember a boy lost the sight in one eye during a metalwork lesson at my school. I’m not saying that children shouldn’t be taught how to use tools correctly, but it is a risk. The same goes for cycling in traffic.We did it in our school back in 1966 along with a trip to the pool once a week for swimming lessons.
When I was nine, I was riding my bike on the road and giving hand signals etc and I wasn't drowning in the sea at Great Yarmouth either.
I also started doing woodwork when I was six using proper tools with sharp edges and pointy bits.
I don't remember anyone dying as a result?
School just ain't the same any more.
Maybe not in your experience, although I remember a boy lost the sight in one eye during a metalwork lesson at my school. I’m not saying that children shouldn’t be taught how to use tools correctly, but it is a risk. The same goes for cycling in traffic.
Decades later, there was a huge surge in UK adults becoming yiffies.Kids love certificates and badges.
I remember my huge pride at being awarded a Tufty Club badge for road safety when I was six.
One of my greatest moments.
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I broadly agree with the cycling point, as you would expect on a cycling forum. Normalising cycling as transport is hugely important, but needs to be combined with driver training and enforcement, and infrastructure improvements.On the other hand, you have kids today who are destined to have heart attacks before they hit 30.
Instead of walking or cycling to school, they get taken in a car. Instead of going out on their bikes with their mates in the school holidays, they game online. Instead of having meat and three veg for tea, they have battered sausage and chips.