Tying kids together for school outings

[tessie1]

I discovered the following site www.tagstrap.co.uk/ that sell a device to keep primary school children tied together for the school outings.
Do your kids use this on school outings ?

No they walk two by two

sounds great and would have prevented the child I was looking after from walking across the fenced in Roman Mosaic at Reading Museum!!

With the very little ones at our school we have a long red rope that they hold on to - but they aren't tied together! Don't think I'd like that for some reason. But the rope is great - a grown up at each end, and ho hassle about who is holding who's hand!

That sort of thing seems to be the norm in Spain, DD was shocked to see a group 5 year olds being led around Madrid zoo by their teacher (who was chain-smoking at the same time).

LOL I'm off to spain!!!

Our nursery had a knotted rope affair, the idea was each child took hold of the foremost available knot so any gaps were obvious straight away there was no problem of an outermost child getting bumpes around or letting go unnoticed.

I am not sure I like the idea of them actually being tied together though... I am sure it is sensible really but it just feels a little