dcbwhaley wrote:
Mole wrote:
Just out of interest, IS there some sort of "Tufty" equivalent these days? Is there a formal curriculum item in schools for road safety? I can't honestly remember, but I think when I was in primary school, we had the odd local bobby come round and talk to us all about road safety, Green Cross Code & all that.
Derbyshire have a fairly extensive programme of road safety teaching
http://www.derbyshire.gov.uk/transport_roads/road_safety/children_schools/resources/default.asp which is far more sophisticated than Malcolm's belief that it simply consists of saying: "The driver is always wrong"
The headings on that link look great, but most of the ones I clicked on then said "sorry, we are unable to display the page". Whether that's a sad reflection on the importance of this subject, I don't know.
dcbwhaley wrote:
Though it is getting on for ten years since my youngest was at primary school I was quite satisfied with whatb they were taught then. Though they probably learnt a healthier and more robust attitude to road safety on their daily, supervised, walk to school than they would have done had they been driven there.
That's fair enough, but what did you teach them? I bet you didn't say to them "go on son, you wander into the middle of the road if you feel like it - you've every bit as much right to be there as that plutocrat in the car who thinks he's superior to you"!