Dear John You write...
> How in the world did your local Education > Authority reach the absurd conclusion > that interactive human analemmatics are > "dangerous for children". Have you never heard of the expression about "being afraid of your own shadow?" This is a well-known phobia which has to be taken seriously... Clearly, the Local Education Authority knew all about this risk and maybe had read about children going home in a state of shock after being forced to use their own shadows to tell the time. It gets worse... This would also be a case of using children as experimental subjects. As such, even written consent is insufficient. It has to be clear that you are giving *informed* consent too so you would need to take legal advice before giving such consent. You don't seem to appreciate what a dangerous business we are in :-) I can see that the paperwork involved in letting children loose on an analemmatic sundial is too horrendous to contemplate. > Do they outlaw hopscotch too? Don't even think about it. You are getting very close to encouraging child abuse and someone will soon insist that this site is closed down. The world is mad. All the best Frank --------------------------------------------------- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial
