Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker A 43-year-old man was fatally injured in a car accident in Langnau am Albis ZH on Wednesday evening Another vehicle occupant was seriously injured and a pedestrian suffered moderate injuries The 43-year-old man died at the scene of the accident according to the Zurich cantonal police on Thursday night A rescue helicopter flew the 35-year-old man who was also in the car involved in the accident Which of the two Italians was driving the vehicle and how the accident occurred is being investigated the car entered the right-hand sidewalk shortly after 10 p.m The car then crashed into the corner of a house on the right-hand side of the road skidded back and collided with a retaining wall on the left-hand side of the road The 37-year-old Ukrainian pedestrian suffered moderate injuries Initial estimates put the damage to the building at several thousand francs 8 (UPI) -- A Swiss zoo confirmed its restaurant has been serving meat from deer and boar killed at the park to control the population Kilchenmann said the process was "very ecological" and helps to teach park visitors about the "natural cycle" of the animals He said 49 deer and 10 boar were shot in the park in 2012 and "recycled" for human consumption in the zoo's eatery. He said about 100 animals are born in the zoo each year and many are killed if new homes can't be found for the surplus population "The majority of our guests show goodwill and support our approach," the spokesman said president of the local animal protection association said she was "shocked" by the zoo's revelation and called on officials to seek methods of limiting births at the park A community celebrating Black voices Beautycon is a global platform that brings together beauty enthusiasts and industry leaders to explore the latest trends and conversations shaping the future of beauty and he made a related observation: Many kids today have never gotten physically lost without a parent or a GPS or a phone app to guide them They don’t know what it’s like to lose your way in the world around you and to make do until you find it again Getting lost can be scary for kids (and for parents looking for children they can’t spot) And I’m not sure how much time my generation of parents spent wandering unfamiliar terrain either But we should pause over Gardner and Davis’ underlying concern about the implications of constantly channeling kids in a predetermined direction This isn’t just about reliance on technology—it’s also a byproduct of the enormous anxiety parents feel about screwing up The well-beaten path is easier to justify than the road to who knows where The forest kindergarten in School’s Out is an outdoor school for 4- to 7-year-olds in Langnau am Albis a town of about 7,000 in northern Switzerland I mean that the kids arrive every morning and spend the day there I don’t mean the other associations I have for the word school The movie opens with a song that Gardner and Davis would surely like: “I lie in the moss/and simply watch and wonder.” It’s autumn A larger group sits and jumps in a makeshift-looking tent that consists of a tarp hung over a pole the teacher describes the daily routine: Singing and “then the children can play where they want in the forest.” She continues Usually I know where they are playing but I cannot see them always.” The camera pans to a girl on a rope swing swinging shockingly high into the tree canopy At this point, my 13-year-old son, who had wandered into the kitchen where I was watching the movie, started paying attention. “What about reading and math?” he asked. There isn’t much direct instruction on either in forest kindergarten. In Switzerland (as in Finland, the country American school reformers love to envy) Lisa Molomot and Rona Richter (whom I know) tell us that Swiss kids soon catch up with their peers elsewhere They contrast the freedom of forest kindergarten with the typical American school simply by running their camera down the daily schedule of activities at a public kindergarten in New Haven which will be familiar to most parents: morning meeting with a lot of transitions,” the New Haven teacher says given my own kids’ need to move their bodies every other minute that begging for more outside time is my main refrain at my 10-year-old’s school I’m mystified by the Atlanta superintendent who said “We are intent on improving academic performance You don’t do that by having kids hanging on the monkey bars.” Actually Forest kindergarten is not the only answer, of course, though it is catnip if you are drawn to the view that kids should have more leeway to figure out play on their own. Still, there is an interesting debate to be had between unstructured playtime, and the more organized approach of groups like Playworks which puts recess coaches into low-income schools based on the theory that many kids need to be nudged and tempted into the kinds of games they used to learn from older kids in the neighborhood I stopped wanting to spend the day in the Swiss woods when autumn turned into snowy winter The kids had to march around in their makeshift tent to keep warm but I felt for the child who tucked himself into a shivering ball in the corner and cried though I suppose I should mention the parents who claimed their children didn’t get sick once The image in School’s Out that seemed more attainable—if still elusive—was a smaller one than the soaring swing or the freezing snow shown playing on her own at home with a bunch of sticks and pinecones Her mother says that she used to be into princess stuff; now the New Haven teacher also talks about the importance of introducing her students to materials that don’t have to be used in a certain way Gardner and Davis point out that some apps and games are built to push kids in this direction—they’re “enabling” rather than dependence-building but it’s hard to imagine a more natural way to instill this capacity in kids then sending them outside every day If we can’t have forest kindergarten in the United States can we at least try universal summer camp?