Well some years ago when they started coming to our school, the kdis were alle slowly speeding along with no real danger to themselves or others. We had a policy back then that if kids used rollerskates on the school they were only permitted to if they wore helmets. We even said that rollerskates was only on special occasions because they got so much speed built that when they hit other non-skaters both got hurt - so helmets only helped the ones that actually wore the skates.
We also have a policy that kids cannot climb in trees in our institution because we haven't got the manpower to keep an eye on the many places we have trees on the playground (this is my boss' rule - and he cannot be budged on it - he has heard to much of kids getting strangled in trees in institutions). The kids of course still climb the trees whenever the staff has passed them, so the rule is sort of half-assed.
Now comes the good part. Now the kids are getting so good at using the scooters that they get high speeds in them and jump around doing slides, grinds jumps etc. They generally throw these metal sword-wannabee-playtoys around hitting everything from kids and adults shins, windows, woodwork and everything in between. We still have no rule that they should use helmets because we have a rule saying that they are allowed to use the scooters on the playground (leftover rule from back when things were slower) but they are not allowed to use helmets on the playground because ... IF they decide to climb trees which they are not allowed to, they might get strangled. Talk about bureacracy.
