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Initech

(100,080 posts)
Mon Mar 25, 2013, 01:59 PM Mar 2013

Accident leads to school completely banning triangle oatmeal snacks

School ban on 'dangerous' triangle oat snacks


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


Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4858110/School-bans-dangerous-triangular-flapjacks-after-pupil-is-hit-in-face-by-one.html#ixzz2OZkWa1GI


Talk about zero tolerance.
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Accident leads to school completely banning triangle oatmeal snacks (Original Post) Initech Mar 2013 OP
Gad, I guess libodem Mar 2013 #1
Good think they weren't star shaped... Javaman Mar 2013 #2
Aren't there corners with squares and rectangles too? Curmudgeoness Mar 2013 #3
How is four corners safer than three corners? n/t kickysnana Mar 2013 #4

Curmudgeoness

(18,219 posts)
3. Aren't there corners with squares and rectangles too?
Mon Mar 25, 2013, 05:57 PM
Mar 2013

I think that they are making a mistake in allowing those dangerous angles.

They should only be able to make them round.

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