True-ish, rather than true. Head teacher Trish Shubrook says staff at the school did a risk assessment. They realised that playground ball games were being played close to other young people who just wanted to sit and chat with friends.
So they restricted the size of the balls.
Shubrook stressed that full-size balls would still be used during games sessions.
Put like this, the "ban" seems a reasonable compromise that anyone trying to juggle different activities in the same space might make. Not that that will make much difference. Complaints of mollycoddling, compensation culture and "political correctness gone mad" will still echo around.
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