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“I suppose there are rules people understand are rules in society. Kids aren’t allowed to kill each other.”

It’s not the sort of thing you’d expect a primary school principal to tell you during a tour of his playground. But then, Bruce McLachlan is one of kind.

He takes his dog to school, wears bright red zebra print shoes and seems to have managed to convince most of the kids at Swanson School in Auckland, New Zealand, that he’s the best principal on the planet.

Because, every day, at morning tea and lunchtime, Bruce lets them do whatever they want.
“The areas are created by the kids so one of the areas that I really love is the area where they are building a hut,” Bruce tells me.

“There’s a lot of junk that’s been put into that hut - planks of wood, old fences, bits of old playground equipment. The hut changes on a daily basis, there was a three storey hut the other day which I was most impressed with.”

It looks like an environment where kids will get hurt. But Bruce says when they do, they pick themselves up. He wants them to learn from their mistakes.

“Even just walking through your first instinct is to say 'careful, careful'… and that’s a normal adult instinct. I always say to people when they are looking and ‘oh a kid might get hurt’, don’t look. If it worries you, don’t look.”

The blind eye, hands-off approach is his way of combatting what he calls ‘helicopter parenting’.
After the bell rings, and the kids go back to class – teachers are reporting they are concentrating better, they are more confident, bullying is less frequent and injuries have actually decreased.

That’s why Bruce plans to keep looking the other way for as long as his school’s parents will let him.

“Once you took all the rules away, what you were doing was letting kids be kids, they could do anything they liked and that was three years ago now and we wouldn’t go back, the change has been fantastic.”