Dear Martina,
Perhaps you should construct your analemmatic sundial on a large plastic roll-up mat. Then you could put it out in the playground at specific times on sunny days (no great point in having it when the sun is not shining anyway, or when the kids are in lessons). That way the 'poor' kids would not get too much sunshine (from using the dial, although beware, they may still exceed quotas from hanging around idle on street corners....!), but would still get enough to satisfy the British Medical Association and any associated medical bodies about the formation of bodily vitamins. As a bonus, there would be no fighting (as a correspondent here suggested) amongst pupils since it would only be used under supervision. Good luck in your quest. Peter Tandy -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Martina Addiscott Sent: 15 May 2012 18:24 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Why are schools, across the world,'banning' analemmatic sundials ? In message <C999F252986D457EA20FAC7AD947B60D@samsung> "Reinhold Kriegler" <[email protected]> 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
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