Teaching The Rule Of The Road To School Children
Captain A. H. Blowers, headmaster of a school at Ipswich, Suffolk, England, has very practical ideas about teaching his pupils traffic sense. Every day he makes them ride round and round the police constable on point duty at one of the worst traffic comers in the town. Captain Blowers was once run info by a boy cyclist as he was on his way to school. That made him determine to do what he could to teach his scholars the rule of the road. “I decided to organize classes in road safety and etiquette, so every day my scholars study the highway code,” he told an interviewer. “Then I take them to the policeman on point duty and make them ride round and round him, giving the proper signals. Afterwards I ride round the constable, making intentional mistakes which the scholars are expected to pick out back at school.” One wonders whether the traffic “cop” is equally enthusiastic about these lessons! But no doubt they are given at times when general traffic is not too congested.
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Southland Times, Issue 23948, 14 October 1939, Page 12
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