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Strap on your goggles, there's Blu-Tack about

Extreme health and safety rules for schools include banning plastic hair bands and cancelling PE because of wet grass, poll finds

A poll of 585 teachers found almost half � 44.3% � believe health and safety regulations now restrict pupils' education. Some 46.5% said overzealous rules were inhibiting children's personal growth.

Teachers told the pollsters, who conducted the survey for Teachers TV, that they had been asked to read five pages of guidance on the dangers of glue, and had been advised not to allow classroom windows to be opened more than six inches in case pupils fell out of them.

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