In article ,
Ken Cook writes:
"GKN" wrote in message
o.uk...
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I fully understand that with the claim culture that we now live in,
head
teachers are afraid of their own shadows when it comes to a child
slipping
over and having an accident on school premises.

Len,

You have answered your own perennial question, you need to insert "
travelling to and from the premises" as well.

The sad thing is that, even taking the possibility of difficult
travelling into account, most pupils are likely to be much safer at
school than either at home alone or roaming the streets, which will no
doubt be what most of them will be doing. (I suspect that only a
minority will have a parent at home nowadays to keep an eye on them.)
--
John Hall "He crams with cans of poisoned meat
The subjects of the King,
And when they die by thousands G.K.Chesterton:
Why, he laughs like anything." from "Song Against Grocers"