Wednesday, 30 March 2016

SLIP SLOP SLACK - TREES AND HATS SHOULD BE MANDATORY (Letter to the Dom Post, March 31)

 
Speaking as one who’s endured several ‘procedures’ for cancer of the scalp, it seems to me the solution for school kids at risk (Slip, slop, slack, March 31) is two-fold.

 

As St Patrick’s College rector Neal Swindells says, you plant trees - which should be selected with expert advice as the best for shade potential with regard to the micro-climate of each school. But then Swindells says, ‘We won’t force kids to wear a hat’.

 

Why not? Because secondary school age kids think hats aren’t cool. But they’re ‘forced’ to wear uncool uniforms, aren’t they? Shouldn’t the teachers and parents responsible for their health and welfare require the little darlings, as part of that uniform and under pain of punishment, to wear hats?

 

No comments:

Post a Comment