"If something bad can happen to even one child it shouldn’t be
done" – paraphrased comment from meeting of a variety of DECS
and AEU (Australian Education Union) representatives, Al Upton,
and his Principal In order to protect their beloved daughter,
the King and Queen in "Sleeping Beauty" took the extraordinary
step of banning spindles from their kingdom. Never having seen
or handled such a tool, the young woman had no idea of either
its utility or danger. "The years went by, the little Princess
grew and became the most beautiful girl in the whole kingdom.
Her mother was always very careful to keep her away from
spindles, but the Princess, on her sixteenth birthday, as she
wandered through the castle, came into a room where an old
servant was spinning. "What are you doing?" she asked the
servant. "I'm spinning. Haven't you seen a spindle before?" "No.
Let me see it!" The servant handed the girl the spindle ... and
she pricked herself with it and. with a sigh, dropped to the
floor." - Charles Perault, La Bell