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		darrenf on Oct 15, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: World conker champion found with steel chestnut, c... The HSE posted on their mythbusting site that it was a myth at a national level, but I suppose individual schools might have done so? https://web.archive.org/web/20211018040605/https://www.hse.g... Quote: "Realistically the risk from playing conkers is incredibly low and just not worth bothering about. If kids deliberately hit each other over the head with conkers, that's a discipline issue, not health and safety." Certainly there was at least one school that got goggles for pupils to wear while playing: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cumbria/3712764.stm

Symbiote on Oct 15, 2024 | [–]

The headteacher said himself that story was misreported — he bought the goggles as a joke.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2009/dec/09/conker...

walthamstow on Oct 15, 2024 | [–]

The academy run by Lord Ashcroft has banned bicycles so I guess anything is possible when you're outside of local authority control

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