Teh One Who Knocks
03-25-2013, 02:34 PM
The Sun
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DINNER ladies have been banned from baking triangular flapjacks after a school branded them DANGEROUS.
“He went to the first aid office. It looked a bit sore but wasn’t life-threatening or anything like that. It was an injury around his eye, it hit his face. He didn’t need to go to hospital.
“It was an accident and no one got in trouble.
“The headteacher made the decision. I think whoever was in charge of the cafeteria reported the incident and from there the decision was made. It only covers flapjacks at the minute. The flapjacks are made on site.”
Less than 24 hours after the food fight, school manager Keith Evans gathered the cooks and dinner ladies to tell them triangular flapjacks were off the menu.
Instead the tasty oaty treats can be sold only in four-sided shapes to ensure the 1,200 pupils can eat without fear of injury.
Kitchen staff were ordered to cook rectangular or square snacks instead after a pupil was hit in the face by a flying oaty morsel.
The Year 7 lad suffered a “sore eye” when he was accidentally struck in the face by the 4in-long snack chucked by another child.
He was instantly patched up and sent home for the afternoon from Castle View School on Canvey Island, Essex.
But head Gill Thomas quickly decided to ban kitchen staff from baking the three-sided desserts — ruling only rectangular or square or flapjacks should be served.
A source said: “It is true, it did happen.
“During lunchtime on Wednesday a boy was injured by a triangular flapjack that was thrown across the canteen.
A school insider said: “Apparently it’s a health and safety issue. Staff have been told to stop making triangle-shaped flapjacks immediately.
“They were told they were a safety hazard as a child had been hit in the head with one.
“It’s the most ludicrous thing I’ve heard. I thought it was a joke. Even if you only have rectangular or square-shaped flapjacks, the children could still break them into triangles and launch them at someone.
“It’s very silly. You’d have thought teachers would have more pressing concerns on their minds than the shape of snacks and puddings.”
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The insider added: “It seems strange as a square means there is one more corner for a child to be hit with. If they’re going to be extreme, maybe they should insist on only round desserts.
“The teachers shouldn’t be banning food — they should be teaching the children to eat it, rather than throwing it about.”
Cooks were left baffled by the flapjack ban after rustling up the energy-filled snacks for hungry pupils for the past 15 years.
An Essex County Council spokesman confirmed the school’s decision but refused to comment. Both the school and headteacher also declined to speak on the subject last night.
A spokesman for East of England Ambulance Service confirmed they were not called to the secondary school, a specialist science college.
The Sun is running a campaign to combat killjoys who’ve lost common sense — giving examples a Non-Sense award.
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DINNER ladies have been banned from baking triangular flapjacks after a school branded them DANGEROUS.
“He went to the first aid office. It looked a bit sore but wasn’t life-threatening or anything like that. It was an injury around his eye, it hit his face. He didn’t need to go to hospital.
“It was an accident and no one got in trouble.
“The headteacher made the decision. I think whoever was in charge of the cafeteria reported the incident and from there the decision was made. It only covers flapjacks at the minute. The flapjacks are made on site.”
Less than 24 hours after the food fight, school manager Keith Evans gathered the cooks and dinner ladies to tell them triangular flapjacks were off the menu.
Instead the tasty oaty treats can be sold only in four-sided shapes to ensure the 1,200 pupils can eat without fear of injury.
Kitchen staff were ordered to cook rectangular or square snacks instead after a pupil was hit in the face by a flying oaty morsel.
The Year 7 lad suffered a “sore eye” when he was accidentally struck in the face by the 4in-long snack chucked by another child.
He was instantly patched up and sent home for the afternoon from Castle View School on Canvey Island, Essex.
But head Gill Thomas quickly decided to ban kitchen staff from baking the three-sided desserts — ruling only rectangular or square or flapjacks should be served.
A source said: “It is true, it did happen.
“During lunchtime on Wednesday a boy was injured by a triangular flapjack that was thrown across the canteen.
A school insider said: “Apparently it’s a health and safety issue. Staff have been told to stop making triangle-shaped flapjacks immediately.
“They were told they were a safety hazard as a child had been hit in the head with one.
“It’s the most ludicrous thing I’ve heard. I thought it was a joke. Even if you only have rectangular or square-shaped flapjacks, the children could still break them into triangles and launch them at someone.
“It’s very silly. You’d have thought teachers would have more pressing concerns on their minds than the shape of snacks and puddings.”
http://i.imgur.com/PGkbjJn.png
The insider added: “It seems strange as a square means there is one more corner for a child to be hit with. If they’re going to be extreme, maybe they should insist on only round desserts.
“The teachers shouldn’t be banning food — they should be teaching the children to eat it, rather than throwing it about.”
Cooks were left baffled by the flapjack ban after rustling up the energy-filled snacks for hungry pupils for the past 15 years.
An Essex County Council spokesman confirmed the school’s decision but refused to comment. Both the school and headteacher also declined to speak on the subject last night.
A spokesman for East of England Ambulance Service confirmed they were not called to the secondary school, a specialist science college.
The Sun is running a campaign to combat killjoys who’ve lost common sense — giving examples a Non-Sense award.