child broke leg at school....

POPPYOSCAR

milliebear00001 wrote: »

Such a repair at my school would simply be dealt with by our caretaker. It almost certainly wouldn't merit a mention on any sort of documentation!

It seems much more likely to me that the school had no idea the steps were unsafe, and so only realised repairs were needed, when the child had the accident and they were looked at a bit more closely/or it became obvious because of the crumbling.

With the best will in the world, schools are often large environments, and keeping on top of crumbling infrastructure/repairs is difficult - just as it often is in a small, family home.

I do not agree.

The safety of our children should be the top priority in any school IMO and I make sure that my home is as safe as I can make it for my family, and that is my top priority before anything else.

milliebear00001

POPPYOSCAR wrote: »

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I do not agree.

The safety of our children should be the top priority in any school IMO and I make sure that my home is as safe as I can make it for my family, and that is my top priority before anything else.

As it is in schools, but just as you sometimes don't know about the pipe, quietly rusting away under your floorboards, until the day it bursts and brings down the ceiling, schools are even more likely to have issues with their buildings that may not be obvious until it's too late to react.

POPPYOSCAR

milliebear00001 wrote: »

As it is in schools, but just as you sometimes don't know about the pipe, quietly rusting away under your floorboards, until the day it bursts and brings down the ceiling, schools are even more likely to have issues with their buildings that may not be obvious until it's too late to react.

I like your confidence in this, I know different unfortunately.

That is not the same thing as having difficulty keeping on top of things.

If the step was already crumbling it should have been attended to immediately or put out of bounds of the children.

milliebear00001

POPPYOSCAR wrote: »

I like your confidence in this, I know different unfortunately.

That is not the same thing as having difficulty keeping on top of things.

If the step was already crumbling it should have been attended to immediately or put out of bounds of the children.

As a teacher, I've personally never met anyone who worked in a school who would not have flagged up obviously dangerous stairs and quickly made them out of bounds had they been noted to be unsafe. Perhaps if you 'know different' it's because you've been unlucky - I wouldn't tar all schools on the basis of that though.

Keeping on top of things isn't what I meant - rather, that the steps may simply not have been obviously dangerous until they crumbled.