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/w

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.gov.uk/myth/september.htm 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 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cumbria/3712764.stm