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> (In the United States, a country with far higher litigation costs, government agencies overseeing play safety are not known to have made any such changes.) T
by hyper_reality 9y ago
> (In the United States, a country with far higher litigation costs, government agencies overseeing play safety are not known to have made any such changes.)
That's the first time in a while that the New York Times has really made me laugh. The article pictures British schools as a model of educational enlightenment, and takes a swipe against an obsessively litigious culture that's seeping into the lives of infants. It shows how implementing commonsensical educational policies is a bipartisan issue, and that the wider litigious culture is the roadblock to helping kids develop well-tuned resilient and risk-taking behaviours.
- ukulele 9y agoAgreed on not holding British schools up too high, but as an American, I have to agree with the author's swipe that any US facility that intentionally provided bricks on a playground would be in for a world of hurt financially. It would not end well.