"Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain." ~ Friedrich Schiller
Ciao. Gian >----Messaggio originale---- >Da: martina.addisc...@gmail.com >Data: 15/05/2012 19.23 >A: <sundial@uni-koeln.de> >Ogg: Re: Why are schools, across the world, 'banning' analemmatic sundials ? > >In message <C999F252986D457EA20FAC7AD947B60D@samsung> > "Reinhold Kriegler" <reinhold.krieg...@gmx.de> wrote: > >> >> Dear Martina, >> >> I still remember your previous message! >> >> >> The world is crazy! >> >> >> In Germany I have heard in a radio transmission last year, parents went >> to a lawyer after there children fell over a tree root while walking >> with the class on a public path through a forest… and private forest >> owners are thinking of no longer allowing people to walk on their paths >> through the forest… as they had to fight with several reports at the law >> courts! >> >> My beautiful analemmatic sundial was destroyed by jealouse women >> colleagues and they worried a lot about a friendly newspaper article. I >> was even called by the headmistress and she was not ashamed to tell me >> “There are also other good teachers at our school!” – because of a >> harmless sentence of a 10 years old girl about me! Nothing else! So you >> see where the real danger is! It is the jealousy, nothing else! >> >> http://www.ta-dip.de/sonnenuhren/meine-sonnenuhren/analemmatische-sonnen >> uhr.html >> > > >Dear Reinhold, > >Thanks for your reply, saying you also had some difficulty with >an 'analemmatic' sundial at a school - and caused by "jealousy" >plus people being frightened of some legal action, against them. > >As you suggest, I would love to 'defy' our Educational Authority >to install this feature - but if I did so, then I am afraid that >both myself and my Head Teacher will be dismissed from our jobs. > > >I really cannot understand why (say) any "Hop-scotch" grids and >"Snakes & Ladders" layouts are OK for playgrounds - but when it >comes to interactive Human Sundials, they are deemed 'dangerous' >for children. Nobody seems to be able to give me a satisfactory >explanation for it - except to say, "Health and Safety" reasons. > > >If anyone else has some ideas on this, then please let me know. > > >Sincerely, > >Martina Addiscott. > >--------------------------------------------------- >https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial > > --------------------------------------------------- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial
