{"id":6021,"date":"2004-06-04T15:33:29","date_gmt":"2004-06-04T22:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/06\/04\/here-comes-the-sun.html"},"modified":"2004-06-04T15:33:29","modified_gmt":"2004-06-04T22:33:29","slug":"here_comes_the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/06\/04\/here_comes_the.html","title":{"rendered":"Here comes the sun …"},"content":{"rendered":"

School kids in Britain no longer have to worry about whether their field trip is being called off because of rainy weather. Now they have to worry whether it will be called off because of sunny <\/em>weather<\/a> …<\/p>\n

Derby City Council issued the guidelines because of the link between sunburn when young and increased risk of skin cancer in later life. It said teachers should consider “postponing or cancelling events… in periods of excessive sun”.
\nThe guidelines also advised to teachers to “try to plan external activities, for example, short duration trips, external lessons and sports days, for times when the sun is likely to be at its lowest strength – and the temperature at its lowest”.<\/p>\n

All right everyone, let’s cue the Morlock scene …<\/em><\/p>\n

Of course, we worry about sun here in Colorado, too — being in Denver means being a mile high (hey, that’s catchy), so the UV risk is even higher. But Katherine’s pre-school gives parents the option — if they’re not of the sun-block-slathering sort like us — to allow the teacher to lotion the kid up. That option’s available in Derby, too, evidently, but with a different <\/em>twist …<\/p>\n

Teachers should also consider keeping a supply of maximum factor suncream to spray onto pupils, although they are told not to rub it in for fear of being accused of inappropriate contact.<\/p>\n

And, just to make it a genuine trip into Wonderland, this BBC story<\/a> shows it can get even more rules-bound-Zero-Tolerance-complicated than that …<\/p>\n

An eight-year-old boy has been banned from taking sun cream to school. Joseph Marshall’s mother Helen sent him to school in Bristol with a bottle of factor 60 sun block to protect his pale, freckly skin from sunburn. She was angry when staff at Hillcrest Primary in Totterdown confiscated the cream, saying they were endangering his health.
\nHead teacher Norma Watson said pupils were not allowed medication at school because of the risk to other children. She said instead teachers encouraged them to wear long-sleeved clothing and hats.<\/p>\n

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