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FINALLY: Middle school bans everything dangerous.

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Matthiasa said:
What kind of middle school has recess...
We had gym classes, but definitely not recess.
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My middle school had recess.. you would eat lunch and then we had extra time to go play soccer.. football.. basketball.. what kind of MS doesn't?
 
You might say that this school....has no balls.


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mmntech said:
It's more that the school is worried about lawsuits rather than the safety of the children. There are a lot of scumbags out there that would take money away from education just because their kid got a scraped knee. This is why America badly needs to reform their tort law system.
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Sovereign immunity should protect them from lawsuits.
 
It's the US.

We have this insane, fucked up, moronic, terrifying, damaging compulsion to insulate our precious children from anything that would so much as hurt their feelings.

And then we expect them to transition seamlessly to real life.

This country is doomed from within. No foreign entity can hurt us the way that we're destroying ourselves.
 
I must be the only parent in the world that doesn't blink an eye when my kids to get bumps and bruises, and the rare broken bone isn't a life-ending injury.
 
CPA said:
I must be the only parent in the world that doesn't blink an eye when my kids to get bumps and bruises, and the rare broken bone isn't a life-ending injury.
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oh fuck no. My kids always have bumps or bruises on legs, arms etc.

In fact We had our pediatrician remark on it. He said he loves seeing kids with scrapes, bruises etc on legs and arms. it means they are out side playing instead of inside playing video games or such.

my daughter has broken her ankle twice, and gotten tons of small stuff from gymnastics.

my son has broke his arm (playing tag on the stair case..) and has had to go to the ER over some bad cuts twice (one was glued shut the other they let heal without anything).

our friends are the same.

edit: I was thinking about other shit and got offtopic. My kids school is small so they don't offer many sports. just basketball and vollyball. So both my kids are in sports outside of school. my daughter is in gymnastics wich is one of the top sports for injuries and martial arts. My son is in martial arts, he spares with bigger kids and he is in wrestling. all these sports you get hurt.

We have been accused of pushing the kids to hard (mainly my daughter. we try to hold her back actually) and that i need to let kids be kids and enjoy what they want. This was from a family that has 2 fat kids that sit around watching TV.

ugh ok im rambling lol
 
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sdifox said:
We used to have these rubber balls (not solid) that we would whip at each other. The rule was no head shot. They hurt like hell, I remember the bruises.
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Did you ever play 'spread eagle'?? If you didn't catch the ball and make it to the wall fast enough, you would have to stand against the wall (face towards wall) and spread your arms and legs out and then your 'friends' would stand about 10-15 yards out and throw the ball at you...ouch...
 
i wonder if we will even have a military in like 20 years with all of the pussies that the country is currently raising.
 
spacejamz said:
Did you ever play 'spread eagle'?? If you didn't catch the ball and make it to the wall fast enough, you would have to stand against the wall (face towards wall) and spread your arms and legs out and then your 'friends' would stand about 10-15 yards out and throw the ball at you...ouch...
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we used to call that game "butts up" and played it with tennis balls.
 
spacejamz said:
Did you ever play 'spread eagle'?? If you didn't catch the ball and make it to the wall fast enough, you would have to stand against the wall (face towards wall) and spread your arms and legs out and then your 'friends' would stand about 10-15 yards out and throw the ball at you...ouch...
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no, but then I am talking about Taiwan so I imagine the games kids play are a bit different.
 
purbeast0 said:
i wonder if we will even have a military in like 20 years with all of the pussies that the country is currently raising.
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In 20 years the military will comprise completely of drones which are either autonomous or controlled by servicemen in a Call of Duty inspired user interface.

Then the problem becomes how can they hack physics so these "players" are actually good at that too...
 
spacejamz said:
Did you ever play 'spread eagle'?? If you didn't catch the ball and make it to the wall fast enough, you would have to stand against the wall (face towards wall) and spread your arms and legs out and then your 'friends' would stand about 10-15 yards out and throw the ball at you...ouch...
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yeah we used racquetball ball's.
 
Journalists are terrible. Facts mean nothing to them, only clicks. Everyone is getting worked up over nothing.

The ban is ONLY for recess, not for gym class and it is temporary. Construction has temporarily restricted the space used for recess and they don't have enough space to allow kids to throw footballs and baseballs in the restricted space. Kids will still be able to play with non-nerf balls during gym classes. Once the construction is complete, kids will be able to have normal recess.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/09/living/parents-middle-school-bans-balls-recess/index.html?hpt=hp_t3

Soft nerf balls will be provided during recess, and kids can play with hardballs during gym and intramural athletics.
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Savij said:
Journalists are terrible. Facts mean nothing to them, only clicks. Everyone is getting worked up over nothing.

The ban is ONLY for recess, not for gym class and it is temporary. Construction has temporarily restricted the space used for recess and they don't have enough space to allow kids to throw footballs and baseballs in the restricted space. Kids will still be able to play with non-nerf balls during gym classes. Once the construction is complete, kids will be able to have normal recess.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/09/living/parents-middle-school-bans-balls-recess/index.html?hpt=hp_t3
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So it's just a temporary suspension due to construction. How did it become a ban in the news?
 
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