Martina Gian is quite right. But one must try… So you need a strategy to overcome the stupidity. Why not recommend to your school the superb Mac Oglesby Beam & Spar dial (equiangular - so correctable for summer time and EoT!). This is designed for boy scouts/girl guides and involves ropes (children will hang themselves) and tree climbing (broken legs guaranteed) and - dare I say it - knives (child murder inevitable). So that is bound to be refused. Now you suggest a gentle analemmatic in its place and the authorities will melt with happiness at its simplicity and safety.
Or fight the dead hand of bureaucratic idiocy with its own kind. Do a full risk assessment of all potential dangers and provide the strategy required to overcome each risk. (Sun hats against the sun …. non-poisonous paints … pre-cut lengths of string … old fashioned supervision of rowdy children … a tool-box talk etc etc). My heart goes out to you and I hope you show copies of this e-mail thread to your head teacher and point out that there are very few things in the current overcrowd curriculum that can gently and cheaply draw together the diverse threads of art, history, astronomy, geography, geometry and maths as sundials in the playground. And they get the children out of the unhealthy atmosphere of the class room into the great outside. Good luck - you have my full support Kevin Karney On 15 May 2012, at 19:16, sun.di...@libero.it wrote: > "Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain." ~ Friedrich Schiller > > Ciao. > Gian > >> ----Messaggio originale---- >> Da: martina.addisc...@gmail.com >> Data: 15/05/2012 19.23 >> A: <sundial@uni-koeln.de> >> Ogg: Re: Why are schools, across the world, 'banning' analemmatic > sundials ? >> >> In message <C999F252986D457EA20FAC7AD947B60D@samsung> >> "Reinhold Kriegler" <reinhold.krieg...@gmx.de> wrote: >> >>> >>> Dear Martina, >>> >>> I still remember your previous message! >>> >>> >>> The world is crazy! >>> >>> >>> In Germany I have heard in a radio transmission last year, parents went >>> to a lawyer after there children fell over a tree root while walking >>> with the class on a public path through a forest… and private forest >>> owners are thinking of no longer allowing people to walk on their paths >>> through the forest… as they had to fight with several reports at the law >>> courts! >>> >>> My beautiful analemmatic sundial was destroyed by jealouse women >>> colleagues and they worried a lot about a friendly newspaper article. I >>> was even called by the headmistress and she was not ashamed to tell me >>> “There are also other good teachers at our school!” – because of a >>> harmless sentence of a 10 years old girl about me! Nothing else! So you >>> see where the real danger is! It is the jealousy, nothing else! >>> >>> http://www.ta-dip.de/sonnenuhren/meine-sonnenuhren/analemmatische-sonnen >>> uhr.html >>> >> >> >> Dear Reinhold, >> >> Thanks for your reply, saying you also had some difficulty with >> an 'analemmatic' sundial at a school - and caused by "jealousy" >> plus people being frightened of some legal action, against them. >> >> As you suggest, I would love to 'defy' our Educational Authority >> to install this feature - but if I did so, then I am afraid that >> both myself and my Head Teacher will be dismissed from our jobs. >> >> >> I really cannot understand why (say) any "Hop-scotch" grids and >> "Snakes & Ladders" layouts are OK for playgrounds - but when it >> comes to interactive Human Sundials, they are deemed 'dangerous' >> for children. Nobody seems to be able to give me a satisfactory >> explanation for it - except to say, "Health and Safety" reasons. >> >> >> If anyone else has some ideas on this, then please let me know. >> >> >> Sincerely, >> >> Martina Addiscott. >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial >> >> > > > --------------------------------------------------- > https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial >
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