EAG: JERSEY, UK – An annual day of fun turned into a day of disappointment for students at St. George’s Preparatory school in St. Peter when school officials canceled an end-of-the-year beach day.
St. George’s elementary students are typically treated to a half-day of fun in the sun with a beach outing to end the school year. But headmaster Colin Moore opted to cancel this year’s event, scheduled for July 11, because the sun is hot and poses a health risk to students, the Bailiwick Express reports.
“In recognition of the Jersey Health department’s advice regarding the dangers of the midday sun, it is with considerable regret that I have decided to cancel our annual day on the beach in July,” Moore wrote to parents. MORE
There is this thing called sunscreen but our brilliant worldwide educators have equated applying lotion to prescription drug dosing.
I guess we will soon see ‘sun’ days instead of ‘snow’ days in hot climates. Vitamin D deficiency on the rise soon.
The headmaster is trying to disprove “mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun.”
When the temps are around 55 to 65, my ass is in the sun like a lizard. It’s the best sun to be in.
What’s wrong with the limey’s?
I spent a few hours in the sun today – welding – in Arizona. I feel just fine (except for the damned hallucinations).
And now more snowflakes are being created.
wait …. didn’t the
Globull WarmersClimate Changers tell us that the sun has nothing to do with temperature changes?What a bummer. The sun appears six or seven times a year over there.
Hasn’t Head Master Moore introduced burkas to the,…. children yet?
At Butlin’s Holiday Camp on the Isle of Man years ago I heard an English mother admonish her son, it may have been Colin: “Don’t go near the water Colin Dear, you will get all wet.”
This kind of ignorance is why more and more people are getting cancer — weakened immune systems from vitamin D deficiencies due to fear of sunlight. You get vitamin D from exposure to the sun.
The heat index at my house today was at least 120°, it probably went up higher than that. I was outside for about 45 minutes re-plumbing a pump for my rain water tanks and was soaked with sweat in just a few minutes.
When you add high humidity and high dew point (in the 80s!) to 100° heat, it does get downright dangerous, but not because of the sunlight. The sun works just the way God designed it and if you are not out in the sun with short sleeves for a long period of time, you are very likely low on vitamin D.
Several people have died in Arkansas from heat exhaustion this month. Sunscreen would not have prevented that. Sunscreen is a toxic substance that is absorbed through the skin and has to be processed by the liver. Don’t use it.
If you get skin cancer it’s more likely because you are low on vitamin D. I know a lot of farmers who are outside all day without a shirt in the summer; they don’t use sunscreen and none of them have skin cancer.
Sorry for the long rant, but it’s just plain stupid to use sunscreen. Research the ingredients sometime, look everything up and find the side effects of each ingredient. If you still use it after that, seek a mental health professional.
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Anon was me Moe Tom
Are the children vampires there? Damned Heliophobes.
Were beach umbrellas banned due to their pointyness?
Unruly, I’m with you on the sunscreen. A day after I put that on my skin I get welts and itchiness.
It ain’t for everybody. I wear giant hats. lol
The sun is hot?
He went his entire life and just figured that one out? I fear for his mental health when he realizes water is wet .
MJA, there are a lot of natural sunscreens out there that don’t have the dangerous chemicals. The Australians are working on a product made from coral. Amazon sells some UV protection products that are made from natural ingreedients. Badger is one that looks to have a lot of positive reviews.
I remember you saying you have to wear a giant hat in the sun.
Be sure to supplement with vitamin D if you don’t get a lot of sun exposure. 3,000 IU or more, not the small doses they put in multivitamins.
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