Lessons in Hypothermia

Hippies hate kids. How else to explain their murderous, misanthropic meanness toward moppets?

A headmaster at a British school decided a great lesson in sustainability would be to turn off the heat for a day. In December:

Pupils at Ansford Academy in Castle Cary, Somerset, were forced to grip their pens through thick gloves and wear their coats and hats in class as temperatures dropped to 1C. The school’s headmaster, Rob Benzie, shut down the radiators as an experiment to show students how the school could cut its carbon footprint.

The headmaster is unapologetic and wants to do it again:

…headteacher Mr Benzie, 52, defended the day, saying it was ‘a success.’ ‘We turned off the heating as an experiment to see if we can lower our carbon footprint,’ he said. ‘We allowed pupils to wear as many jumpers as they liked and everyone seemed to be happy enough although it did get pretty chilly. ‘We gave letters to pupils to take home to their parents informing them about the eco day. ‘We only had one complaint and that came from a member of staff but they just got on with it in the end.’

Mr Benzie said he hoped to repeat the eco day again next term.

The local school authority and parents should probably teach Mr. Benzie the lesson that freezing children to push a radical green agenda makes his job unsustainable, before he does something really stupid.

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23 thoughts on “Lessons in Hypothermia”

  1. The local school authority and parents should take the headmaster to court for breaking the law:

    The Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992 stipulate that during working hours, temperatures in workplaces (including maintained and independent schools, and FE colleges) should be reasonable. The employer must provide a suitable number of thermometers to enable the temperature to be checked throughout the workplace.

    As far as maintained schools in England and Wales are concerned, the Education (School Premises) Regulations 1999 prescribe minimum standards for temperatures (which should be measured at 0.5 metres above floor level) as follows:

    Use of area Minimum temperature

    Lower than normal level of physical activity, eg sick rooms 21°C
    Normal level of physical activity, eg classrooms and libraries 18°C
    Higher than normal levels of physical activity, eg gyms and drama workshops 15°C

    Stupid green Prat.

  2. The local school authority and parents should take the headmaster to court for breaking the law:

    The Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992 stipulate that during working hours, temperatures in workplaces (including maintained and independent schools, and FE colleges) should be reasonable. The employer must provide a suitable number of thermometers to enable the temperature to be checked throughout the workplace.

    As far as maintained schools in England and Wales are concerned, the Education (School Premises) Regulations 1999 prescribe minimum standards for temperatures (which should be measured at 0.5 metres above floor level) as follows:

    Use of area Minimum temperature

    Lower than normal level of physical activity, eg sick rooms 21°C
    Normal level of physical activity, eg classrooms and libraries 18°C
    Higher than normal levels of physical activity, eg gyms and drama workshops 15°C

    Stupid green Prat.

  3. Good point, I never considered the legal aspects of freezing kids for Gaia.

    Also, you’ve been blogrolled.

  4. Good point, I never considered the legal aspects of freezing kids for Gaia.

    Also, you’ve been blogrolled.

  7. That’s child abuse on a massive scale.

    In Aussie, they are more likely to cook kids for Gaia by having no air-conditioning in summer in December … Oh wait, that is because they will get slugged a lot for carbon taxes in the power bill making air conditioning unaffordable.

  8. That’s child abuse on a massive scale.

    In Aussie, they are more likely to cook kids for Gaia by having no air-conditioning in summer in December … Oh wait, that is because they will get slugged a lot for carbon taxes in the power bill making air conditioning unaffordable.

  15. It might have been a lesson in “See how the stupid Huhne wants you to live? Without reliable power you freeze.”

  16. It might have been a lesson in “See how the stupid Huhne wants you to live? Without reliable power you freeze.”

  19. The dumbest part of all is that this school has hot water heating. Takes far more BTU’s to maintain moderate heat than to shut it down and restart the next day. This man has a mental problem that he is not even aware of. He will not be satisfied until “his” students have the same sickness. So very sad that these nuts are in a position to influence young minds.

  21. Hold on, could he not be in trouble?

    In the UK, the relevant legislation is section 6 of the Offices Shops & Railway Premises Act 1963. The appropriate part goes something like…..

    “(2) Where a substantial proportion of the work done in a room to which the foregoing subsection applies does not involve severe physical effort, a temperature of less than 16 degrees Celsius (61F) shall not be deemed, after the first hour, to be a reasonable temperature while work is going on.

    Seems to me the Headmaster has forced his staff and the pupils under his care to suffer and thereby breaking the rules of the act!

  22. (6)It shall be the duty of the employer of persons for whom means of enabling them to warm themselves are provided in pursuance of subsection (3) of this section to afford them reasonable opportunities for using those means, and if he fails so to do he shall be guilty of an offence.”

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