The good people of Oklahoma have woken up to the fact that there's no reliable way to track the total number of injuries incurred on playgrounds, and where (which school, park, etc.) these injuries occurred.
This article - which is quite long, but worth the read - goes into the potential costs and benefits of instituting a state-wide tracking system. The issue has been raised because a 9-year-old girl died from a playground injury this past summer, and school officials in that district "discovered" that they had no formal means of spreading that information to the 500 other school districts in the state.
I'm all for a state-wide database. It would create a small amount of bureaucracy for schools, yes, but wouldn't it be worth the cost to know if there are any particular schools that are incurring abnormal amounts of playground injuries, so corrective action could be taken? Good data makes the world go 'round...
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