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Re:Cheating alleged after men's world conker champion found ... by darrenf on Tuesday October 15, 2024 @04:09AM (#41846133)
The HSE posted on their mythbusting site that it was a myth at a national level, but I suppose individual schools might have done so?

https://web.archive.org/web/20211018040605/https://www.hse.g...

Quote: "Realistically the risk from playing conkers is incredibly low and just not worth bothering about. If kids deliberately hit each other over the head with conkers, that's a discipline issue, not health and safety."

Certainly there was at least one school that got goggles for pupils to wear while playing: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cumbria/3712764.stm

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Re:Cheating alleged after men's world conker champion found ... by walthamstow on Tuesday October 15, 2024 @05:37AM (#41846753)
The academy run by Lord Ashcroft has banned bicycles so I guess anything is possible when you're outside of local authority control
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Re:Cheating alleged after men's world conker champion found ... by Symbiote on Tuesday October 15, 2024 @08:27AM (#41847850)
The headteacher said himself that story was misreported — he bought the goggles as a joke.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2009/dec/09/conker...

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