This comes under the category “Now I’ve heard everything”.

According to the Daily Mail, at the Royal High School in Bath, England, schoolchildren as young as seven years old were left to negotiate their way across a street through busy traffic because their crossing guard called in sick.

The teachers and staff were instructed not to assist the children because they hadn’t received proper health and safety training.

Apparently, they can be entrusted to teach children and mold their minds but can’t be trusted to cross the street.

The bottom line is litigation, of course. The school doesn’t want to be sued if there is an accident. And I thought Americans were lawsuit-happy.

Lollipop police ban teachers from helping children to cross the road