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I believe it will discourage kids (including my son) from cycling to school.
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I got a reply from the Assistant head. I will be meeting with her on Thursday. Any tips appreciated.
Many thanks for your e mail and feedback. Although we appreciate that
cycle helmets are not a guarantee of road safety, we feel that
anything we can do to reduce risk to our students is a valuable
measure. Our policy will also include road worthiness of bicycles and
road safety awareness, which will be detailed in the letter coming out
to parents shortly. We also have a number of programmes coming up to
educate our students on road safety to show them why we feel these
changes are so important. In the last half term alone we have had
three RTC’s involving our students and feel that the situation is
becoming a serious safeguarding concern. Our policy is falling in line
with other local secondary schools and has the support of our local
policing team. Our intention is purely to make sure our young people
are cycling sensibly and safely rather than as a punitive sanction.
Students who bring bikes to school without a helmet will be able to
take them home once they return to school with a helmet or, parents /
carers will be free to collect them after school if they prefer. We
will however not be allowing any child to cycle away from school
without a helmet on. I would be happy to talk this through with you
in more detail if you would like to come in for a chat. -
Three years ago I had a moan on here about my kids' school trying to make helmets compulsory (on threat of detention) for every pupil who cycled to school. I wrote to the head about the school's lack of responsibility/liability for pupils' mode of journey, and the misguided, counter-productive nature of such a rule. It was quietly dropped.
Now I learn from my son that, starting next half-term, anyone cycling to school without a helmet will have their bike taken and locked up until a helmet is produced.
Is this even legal?
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What sort of info are you looking for? He's a very experienced frame builder who will build to your specs, and he's a very nice bloke too. I highly recommend him.
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Thanks, karlos :)
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And now it's built up. Rides like a dream.
They'd have more time to get on with educating my son if they didn't waste time dreaming up, implementing, and then enforcing misguided and counterproductive cycle-helmet rules.