“It’s about the worst thing you can do”
STEVE WATSON
Some schools in the UK have banned children from playing outside, claiming it is too hot.
Yes, really.
The Telegraph reports:
Teachers are keeping pupils inside for “hot play” breaks when their playgrounds are deemed to be “too hot to use safely”.
The move is designed to keep children away from outdoor surfaces that can become very hot to touch in the sun.
Schools ban children from playing outside during heatwaves. Oh for goodness sake!! How on earth did we ever survive the 70s 80s & 90s? Not to mention the centuries before… this direction of travel is ruining the resilience of our kids. Hats & water 👍🏾 https://t.co/kh6VufIUHE
— Sharron Davies MBE (@sharrond62) July 10, 2025
In the UK it’s currently mildly hot, around 29 degrees Celsius or 84 degrees Fahrenheit. Which means of course ‘PANIC, stay inside, do not go outside because you WILL die’ propaganda is everywhere, as well as the inevitable ‘look what climate change is doing’ guff.
The directive issued by schools has been branded “absolute nonsense,” with many warning that it is fundamentally detrimental to society to raise children as “wimps” and teach them they need to “hide from warm weather”, particularly sunshine.
Former head teacher Chris McGovern, now chairman of the Campaign for Real Education, told the Telegraph “I taught for 35 years. Any teacher knows that the worst thing you can do on a hot day is to keep children confined in the classroom. It’s about the worst thing you can do.”
“Of course, there can be situations where a particular child needs to stay indoors, and of course there should be areas of shade within the playground. But using common sense, it’s the worst possible way forward for helping these children,” McGovern further urged.
“Just as in cold weather, they should be out running around. So we’re making them into wimps. We don’t want to make children into wimps. We want to toughen them up a little bit,” he added.
He also highlighted that this is yet another strike against children’s freedom, which risks damaging their development.
“It’s an awful childhood we’re inflicting on children. And, of course, it encourages them to use their iPads and mobile phones if they’re confined,” he noted, adding “The worst thing they can be doing is staying indoors, playing on their mobile phones, and this is sort of encouraging them to do that. So yeah, it’s the opposite of what we want.”
Conservative MP Greg Smith described the development as “absolute nonsense” and yet another attempt to put “children in bubble wrap and away from anything that might be a bit uncomfortable”.
“The correct answer is to take precautions in heat – hats, sun cream, light clothing – not hide from warm weather,” he asserted.
☀️ Schools ban children from playing outside during heatwaveshttps://t.co/fG9OSb9PnR
— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) July 10, 2025
So when vitamin d levels are low, you ban kids from going outside? Surely teaching kids to manage warm temps is better than making them scared of the sun which they need vit d wise?
— Sara Brunel (@SaraJane101) July 10, 2025
Nothing to do with children’s safety. Everything to do with seeding their minds with climate catastrophe dogma
Teachers want to harm children and they know exactly what they are doing
— John Knights (@messele) July 10, 2025
They got addicted to locking people in their homes during Covid.
This is just the start.
And all in the “we want to protect you” vein.
— Miss Jo (@therealmissjo) July 10, 2025
Ban, ban, ban. Instead of banning everything teach kids how to be safe in the heat. Teach them they need to drink more water and how to recognise if they’re struggling with the heat.
— Andrea Secco (@AndreaSecco3) July 10, 2025
It’s regularly always been as hot as it is in London now for the past century and forever, yet because there are now MASSIVE BLOOD RED DEATH MAPS shown everywhere and panicked news alerts every 5 minutes, everyone thinks it’s something new. pic.twitter.com/uk5WJgpena
— m o d e r n i t y (@ModernityNews) July 1, 2025
ARRRRGGGHHH CERTAIN DEATH… pic.twitter.com/ccDCEdNVxi
— m o d e r n i t y (@ModernityNews) July 1, 2025
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