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Related: About this forumAccident 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
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
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libodem
(19,288 posts)1. Gad, I guess
Javaman
(62,530 posts)2. Good think they weren't star shaped...
Curmudgeoness
(18,219 posts)3. Aren't there corners with squares and rectangles too?
I think that they are making a mistake in allowing those dangerous angles.
They should only be able to make them round.
kickysnana
(3,908 posts)4. How is four corners safer than three corners? n/t