Child on school roof

Knit wit

Hi folks,

Just looking for a bit of advice please. I arrived a bit early to school today to collect my children and didn't believe my eyes when I saw a sixth class child climbing from a stepladder onto the flat roof of the school to retrieve a basketball. What was even more shocking was the fact that one of the classroom assistants was holding the ladder while the child climbed onto the roof. Surely this is not normal practice in a primary school .... What should I do?

abouttobebanned

Do nothing. Seriously.

E.T.

I'd ask to speak to the principal and explain your concern. Our kids are allowed hop over a wall to get their ball but there's no way they'd be allowed up on a ladder of any kind.

byhookorbycrook

In our prefab school, before we got our new one,I would imagine either a teacher or caretaker would have gone through the roof, this is the only way I could think of a child being put up instead-it never happened though and of course it is not right.

Wolfe Tone

Ah for gods sake. Talk about overreaction. Better a ladder then climbing up the drainpipes like I used to do.

Kells...

Collecting my nephew the other day and I seen a youngfella on the roof after climbing up free hand

Insect Overlord

I remember when climbing trees and walls was normal behaviour for kids of all ages...

D4RK ONION

How high was this roof? When I was a kid, (not that I still amn't one :P) we used to climb up onto the top of the roof of a bike shed to get footballs down all the time. I understand your concern if they're climbing onto a full sized building, who wouldn't! But surely anything you can reach by step ladder isn't too bad. Having said that, I would have just gone up and got the ball myself, I am surprised that the teacher assisted the kid.

Holybejaysus

You should have told him he was superman.

veruca salt

:rolleyes:

D4RK ONION

Veruca Salt, this is your on thread warning, as per the charter (which you should read again). Please do not post unless you have something constructive to add to the discussion

overmantle

Not something I would do if I was in the position, purely because we have all become paranoid about the compo culture.

Having said that, I had the occasion to visit a school in another distant European country within the last year. To relate what I witnessed the children doing there in the school playground, would put hairs standing on the back of the necks of everybody in this country.

I think we have all become OTT here, to be honest.

up for anything

A couple of years ago at our school, one of the kids went over a wall to retrieve a ball and went through a greenhouse. Cut his arm badly. He was lucky but I agree that kids are too mollycoddled in school these days. In the ice last winter they were read the riot act for sliding. The best fun we had in primary school was sliding on ice patches.