The weak shall inherit the gym

**bigDman** · 10-19-2006, 12:18 AM

Many of you know dogeball has been banned from schools for being dangrous. Now they are after tag

School bans kids from playing tag

October 18, 2006

ASSOCIATED PRESS

ATTLEBORO, Mass. — Tag, you’re out!

Officials at an elementary school south of Boston have banned kids from playing tag, touch football and any other unsupervised chase game during recess for fear they’ll get hurt and hold the school liable.

Recess is “a time when accidents can happen,” said Willett Elementary School Principal Gaylene Heppe, who approved the ban.

While there is no districtwide ban on contact sports during recess, local rules have been cropping up. Several school administrators around Attleboro, a city of about 45,000 residents, took aim at dodgeball a few years ago, saying it was exclusionary and dangerous.

Elementary schools in Cheyenne, Wyo., and Spokane, Wash., also recently banned tag during recess. A suburban Charleston, S.C., school outlawed all unsupervised contact sports.

“I think that it’s unfortunate that kids’ lives are micromanaged and there are social skills they’ll never develop on their own,” said Debbie Laferriere, who has two children at Willett, about 40 miles south of Boston. “Playing tag is just part of being a kid.”

Another Willett parent, Celeste D’Elia, said her son feels safer because of the rule. “I’ve witnessed enough near collisions,” she said.

After reading this I ran into this article ( I read it in english class at school and thought it was halrious and had to share)

Not to alarm you, but America is going softer than left-out butter. Exhibit 9,137: Schools have started banning dodgeball.

I kid you not. Dodgeball has been outlawed by some school districts in New York, Texas, Utah and Virginia. Many more are thinking about it, like Cecil County, Md., where the school board wants to ban any game with "human targets." Personally, I wish all these people would go suck their Birkenstocks.

Human targets? What's tag? What's a snowball fight? What's a close play at second? Neil Williams, a physical education professor at Eastern Connecticut State, says dodgeball has to go because it "encourages the best to pick on the weak." Noooo! You mean there's weak in the world? There's strong? Of course there is, and dodgeball is one of the first opportunities in life to figure out which one you are and how you're going to deal with it.

We had a bully, Big Joe, in our seventh grade. Must have weighed 225 pounds, used to take your underwear while you were in the shower and parade around the locker room twirling it on his finger. We also had a kid named Melvin, who was so thin we could've faxed him from class to class. I'll never forget the dodgeball game in which Big Joe had a ball in each hand and one sandwiched between his knees, firing at our side like a human tennis-ball machine, when, all of a sudden, he got plunked right in his 7-Eleven-sized butt. Joe whirled around to see who'd done it and saw that it was none other than Melvin, all 83 pounds of him, most of it smile.

Some of these New Age whiners say dodgeball is inappropriate in these times of horrifying school shootings. Are you kidding? Dodgeball is one of the few times in life when you get to let out your aggressions, no questions asked. We don't need less dodgeball in schools, we need more!

I know what all these NPR-listening, Starbucks-guzzling parents want. They want their Ambers and their Alexanders to grow up in a cozy womb of noncompetition, where everybody shares tofu and Little Red Riding Hood and the big, bad wolf set up a commune. Then their kids will stumble out into the bright light of the real world and find out that, yes, there's weak and there's strong and teams and sides and winning and losing. You'll recognize those kids. They'll be the ones filling up chalupas. Very noncompetitive.

But Williams and his fellow wusses aren't stopping at dodgeball. In their Physical Education Hall of Shame they've also included duck-duck-goose and musical chairs. Seriously. So, if we give them dodgeball, you can look for these games to be banned next:

Tag. Referring to any child as it is demeaning and hurtful. Instead of the child hollering, "You're it!" we recommend, "You're special!"

Red Rover. Inappropriate labeling of children as animals. Also, the use of the word red evokes Communist undertones.

Sardines. Unfairly leaves one child alone at the end as the loser -- a term psychologists have deemed unacceptable.

Hide-and-seek. No child need hide or be sought. The modern child runs free in search of himself.

Baseball. Involves wrong-headed notions of stealing, errors and gruesome hit-and-run. Players should always be safe, never out.

Hopscotch. Sounds vaguely alcoholic, not to mention demeaning to our friends of Scottish ancestry.

Marbles. Winning others' marbles is overly capitalistic.

Marco Polo. Mocks the blind.

Capture the flag. Mimics war.

Kick the can. Unfair to the can.

If we let these PC twinkies have their way, we'll be left with:

Duck-duck-duck. Teacher spends the entire hour patting each child softly on the head.

Upsy down. The entire class takes turns fluffing the gym teacher's pillow before her nap.

Swedish baseball. Players are allowed free passage to first, second or third, where they receive a relaxing two-minute massage from opposing players.

Smear the mirror. Students take turns using whipped cream to smear parts of their reflection they don't like, e.g., the fat they have accrued from never doing a damn thing in gym class.

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**Sholiz** · 10-19-2006, 01:40 AM

LOL! Good read.

**Jayelin** · 10-19-2006, 02:42 AM

excellent

**DarkFalcon** · 10-19-2006, 03:39 AM

America=Land of the CreamPuffs

**bubba g** · 10-19-2006, 03:47 AM

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Originally Posted by DarkFalcon

America=Land of the CreamPuffs

I think it is having the opposite effect.. have you seen our murder rate???? lol

seriously though.. most people here think stuff like this is rediculous..

**romanaz** · 10-19-2006, 04:31 AM

we couldn't play dodgeball in my school...

why? it wasn't fun enough.. we had Prison Ball, dodgeball, where u get hit, you go to prison, and if u caught the ball, while in prison, you get out, and if your player makes a basket (it was in a b-ball court), everyone was let out. It was intense, crazy, and strategic.

And we had Box Ball. Kickball, but you had boxes (not bases) and 4 people could be in a box, and u had to hit home plate 3 times to score. REALLY hard intense game. if u stepped outta the box, u had to move to the next box, which is good so u learn agility and how not to fall.

f***ing pansys

**davtown** · 10-19-2006, 05:39 AM

Why not just ban recess all together?

dukebrown · 10-19-2006, 03:48 PM

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Originally Posted by davtown

Why not just ban recess all together?

They damn near have, allowing kids not to dress out at recess but still pass. The kids that dont dress out walk around the field, what BS. How about failing them in PE and in all classes stop this crap of letting them slide because it will hurt their feelings.

Great post by the way!

**DJSTARER** · 10-19-2006, 08:39 PM

my gym teacher told use stories of the old days:

when kids had arguments and started to get physical, they'd give them boxing gloves and resolve it while everyone watched.

dodgball is the shit

**skelooth** · 10-19-2006, 09:04 PM

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Originally Posted by davtown

Why not just ban recess all together?

I'm all for it!

**bigDman** · 10-19-2006, 09:04 PM

im a fan of smear the queer...

Fun game

**skelooth** · 10-19-2006, 09:21 PM

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Originally Posted by bigDman

im a fan of smear the queer...

Fun game

That game is fine, just be sure not to play freeze tag bro, it can be very dangerous.

**antihero** · 10-20-2006, 01:17 AM

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Originally Posted by DJSTARER

my gym teacher told use stories of the old days:

when kids had arguments and started to get physical, they'd give them boxing gloves and resolve it while everyone watched.

dodgball is the shit

hell yes. personally i think america in general is going way to *****ing soft. im honestly born in the wrong time period. i want to be in the time frame where:

if you had a problem with someone, you fought, last one standing was the one who 'resolved' the problem. a bloody nose never killed anyone, but god-damnit you learned something that day. dont fight someone bigger than you.

when the ***** did we let these starbucks loving, tofu eating, passivisits (:peace

take over america? did we lose a war? thank god our founders werent as pansy ass as these people, cause we would still be under British rule...*****ING PEOPLE NEED TO LEARN TO PROTECT THEMSELVES. THEY NEED TO LEARN ABOUT COMPETITION AND WEAK AND STRONG. ITS THE BASIS OF AMERICA, AND THOSE PANSY ASS PEOPLE ARE WHY THIS COUNTRY IS GOING TO SHIT.

**antihero** · 10-20-2006, 01:18 AM

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Originally Posted by skelooth

That game is fine, just be sure not to play freeze tag bro, it can be very dangerous.

haha.

**romanaz** · 10-20-2006, 01:38 AM

yeah, and we expect to win WWIII? pfft

good luck I'm moving to switzerland, the land of chocolate and banks.

**DJSTARER** · 10-20-2006, 02:43 AM

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Originally Posted by antihero

hell yes. personally i think america in general is going way to *****ing soft. im honestly born in the wrong time period. i want to be in the time frame where:

if you had a problem with someone, you fought, last one standing was the one who 'resolved' the problem. a bloody nose never killed anyone, but god-damnit you learned something that day. dont fight someone bigger than you.

when the ***** did we let these starbucks loving, tofu eating, passivisits (:peace

take over america? did we lose a war? thank god our founders werent as pansy ass as these people, cause we would still be under British rule...*****ING PEOPLE NEED TO LEARN TO PROTECT THEMSELVES. THEY NEED TO LEARN ABOUT COMPETITION AND WEAK AND STRONG. ITS THE BASIS OF AMERICA, AND THOSE PANSY ASS PEOPLE ARE WHY THIS COUNTRY IS GOING TO SHIT.

uh.... sorry man. I think that is rediculous...

That mentality is old fashioned and traditional. There is no reason we cannot all live the most enjoyable life possible. Solving things through voilence is barbaric and really proves nothing except who is strongest. Just because europeans used gun powder to creat guns doesn't mean american indians were lesser people.
Where i come from, you are judged by your integrity and ability to solve problems without the use of violence.
There is a time for it, but this time is limited to scenarios which harbor agressive behavior.

PS: This isn't coming from someone who hates to fight. I grew up in a diverse school where fighting was normal.... i just know it never proved anything.

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DJSTARER eating more folate... Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: State College, PA Posts: 4,048 Recipes: 0 Rep Power: 114	my gym teacher told use stories of the old days: when kids had arguments and started to get physical, they'd give them boxing gloves and resolve it while everyone watched. dodgball is the shit __________________ My philosophies on training: "Extreme training yields extreme results" "Just because you can, does not mean you should" "The best program is the one you are not doing" Penn State Powerlifting-181 lb weightclass PGA Professional of America Current Stats: 474 Squat 601 Deadlift 320 Bench Goals for next training cycle: 500lbs squat and a total over 1400 in competition

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