16 Replies to “The Children Are Our Future”

  1. To make it complete, each child needs to be outfitted with a pair scissors to run with.

  2. I suppose bubble wrap and a bicycle helmet would make it all right. (all left?)

    1. The children must run in a small circle, on a padded mat installed by the education nannies. And all the jungle gyms and red rubber balls MUST be removed from the playground.

  3. These people seem to know absolutely nothing about what went on here before they arrived to figure it all out for us.

    We are getting stupider with each new generation of soft silly people.

    1. I notice that with many engineering students nowadays. They think that real engineering is done with Farcebook and using software like Matlab. They’re taught by equally clueless engineering professors, most of whom have never worked on a shop floor or in a design office, let alone having spent time out in the field. Anything that happened more than, say, 10 years ago is considered to be worthless and completely irrelevant.

      Me, I’ve only been in the business for more than 40 years. I’ve got degrees in 2 disciplines (including a you-know-what) and I’m registered in more than one province. As a young rookie, I learned that one should examine what was done before to see what worked and what didn’t and to figure out if any of that could be applied to what I was working on. The experiences of my colleagues and predecessors was, and still is, a vast and great resource and there’s no reason to repeat mistakes that have already been made.

      But, why should those kids and their “learned” masters take any advice from me simply because I don’t have a tenured academic position or don’t pack around one of those ubiquitous electronic toys that seem to have erased their brains?

      1. Agreed. There are too many computer programs that “DO” everything for the “Engineer” … which serves to disconnect them from examining the real world they are building-in. Just my opinion.

    2. That is why we are in such a financial mess with leaders like Obama, Wynne and Trudeau who also want to implement socialist policies that have failed so miserably during the last hundred years. Also, why we have allowed our educational facilities and other institutions to be taken over by SocProg radicals.

      Recess, with kids running around having fun? What a novel idea. Just think though, during this fifteen minutes, they are not reading from their little red book about how evil whitey is, and how destructive western liberal civilization was and is.

      Excuse the cynicism.

  4. Recess was my best subject. My report card said i was taking up space, but I never got to be an astronaut.

  5. More likely unknown IMO, as , that far back, likely won’t show in a Google search

  6. Back in the day, offsprings attended a school to which essentially all of the student body was bussed or carpooled (there might have been a few who could walk there). Do remember saying that the school should open the day with everyone doing ten laps around the outside of the school. Still think I was right.

  7. Ahhh…glorious Recess…by grade 8, when you sneaked out of the square track field and slid into the corner store to play a quick game of pinball, drink a coke, and smoke a player’s ciggy. Then back to the three rote R’s that served us well, comparatively speaking….
    But now, the three R’s these days seem to be…Racism, Rape Culture, and Reconciliation. Oh, and the fourth being Retardation in the broadest sense of the term…

  8. Oh, the Hubris! This principal boldly states that thanks to her enforced brain child “every child in the whole UK has good health outcomes for the rest of their lives.”
    Really? Giving yourself a bit too much credit there, Lady!
    News Flash!
    You can (and do) influence…. usually in the wrong direction…. but no government can ENSURE (which implies an ironclad guarantee) much of anything when it comes to individual choices.
    Does anybody else find this enforced, rigid, “you shall all run in the same fashion under our watchful eyes” a little creepy when compared to kids actually playing and doing things on their own?
    Even exercise shall be regimented. And the happy faces in the film remind me of the Nork dancers at the Olympic Games. Forced Frolic, or there shall be consequences.

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