A Toronto elementary school has banned most balls from its playground, citing the need to protect staff and students after a parent got hit in the head with a soccer ball.
Related: Free range kids.
h/t Dan T.
A Toronto elementary school has banned most balls from its playground, citing the need to protect staff and students after a parent got hit in the head with a soccer ball.
Related: Free range kids.
h/t Dan T.
Yeah, well, “Toronto” – ’nuff said. (It’s where they parked the surplus ‘tards that wouldn’t fit in Quebec.)
“Two weeks ago a mother picking up her child at the daycare went to hospital with a concussion after getting struck in the back of the head with a soccer ball”
Daycare ????????????????????????????????
Maybe they should just ban soccer in Canada. That would suit me fine.
Sounds like Toronto but occasionally a seriously stupid person is appointed principal out west. We keep a rope and a tree handy for such occasions.
This is when the human race started to lose.
OK – we keep reading about this stupid shit on blogs and comment – comment – comment. Yes – this is really stupid shit but just what are we doing about it if it keeps happening and all we do about it is ……..comment – comment – comment ……and the stupid shit keeps on happening?????
Now that I have your attention…….just WTF do we DO ABOUT IT?????????
A concussion from a soccer ball? Is that even possible? Seriously – is someone full of poo?
Considering how many teachers and coaches have molested children, why not ban teachers?
Sort of like the incremental gun banning through small measures of control no?
Wait until these idiots start having their own property or hobbies confiscated “for their own safety” based on someone else’s beliefs. Oh ya idiots, whatever that passion is, someone’s eventually coming for it, after all you taught them how to go about it most efficiently.
Insane.
Well said Knight 99.
They did that at my kid’s elementary school in Victoria 8 years ago.
It was ‘dangerous’, can’t have the kids running around, getting fit and having fun……somebody might get an owie.
You gotta love helicopter parenting.
A soccer ball can cause concussion. Some old time footballers (George Best) have serious health issues from heading the ball repeatedly. Whatever happened to “keep your head up”? Seriously now a day people can’t even walk on an uneven surface without tripping and suing for damages.
Knight 99, well said. First they came for the…then they came for…
Why don’t they deal with some of the major issues like the problem with paper cuts? That would mean banning paper and books at schools. Lets make sure that no child has any exposure to reality and would not suffer the permanent psychologic harm that a paper cut can produce. Better yet, since children are most often the cause of childhood injuries, it’s time to ban children from public schools. Then the teachers, having nothing to do, could all be fired. Can’t think of a better way to get kids into home schooling or private schools.
The ultimate in safety, ban the wheel. Think of all the injuries that would avoid. The only danger left would be honour killings.
in the immortal words of Mo the bartender from The Simpsons: “Please, God, won’t somebody think of the children!”
School principal Alicia Fernandez…ward trustee Sheila Cary-Meagher…Anna Caputo, a spokeswoman for the school board…
The chickifcation of the school system continues apace.
Although I agree that we are far too overprotective of kids today, I have a different view on this. If my wife got hit in the head with a soccer ball so hard that she suffered a concussion the little punk that did it would be shovelling my drive for the entire winter.
It is not just that we are overprotective of children, but it is also that we don’t *discipline* kids today. If you are so asinine and careless to hit a parent (a mother no less!) in the head with a soccer ball then there should be serious consequences.
Honestly child rearing today is just one giant cockup no matter how you look at it. I shudder to think what will happen when this generation of youngsters starts running the country.
“The chickifcation of the school system continues apace.”. Bernie you have that right.
At my son’s school he is not permitted to play wrestle with his friends on the grass because it is considered too “violent” by the female head running the school.
“A concussion from a soccer ball?”
Yes, very possible. My Dad got knocked out cold once by a soccer ball to the head, hit by an old boyfriend of my sister. If you are not expecting the ball, and you don’t move your head, or position your head properly, you can easily get injured.
@ TJ: And sometimes an accident just happens. These days for someone to step up and be a man and make an apology is rare. But if it were my kid I’d drive him to your house everyday to shovel the snow.
We’re a society of whiners. In some ways Kate is right, a little bit of mass disaster might teach everyone some needed lessons.
My kid likes to go hunting with me. I cannot wait for the day I get the call from the principal’s office about this…
Loki >
Don’t forget about using germ contaminated keyboards for school computers. Latex gloves and filter masks will be a future must. Maybe filter burka’s will be the mandatory style? Allot of Progressives would like that.
langmann >
“…a little bit of mass disaster might teach everyone some needed lessons.”
Oh I doubt anyone needs to worry about that. It’s comming, sooner or later.
As the left want to bubble wrap everyone from every little hurt real or imaginary is this really surprising that Toronto teachers would ban balls from the play ground.
What will they try to ban next?
Totally insane and……good point, Bruce @ 12:06 AM
How I spent my entire youth – baseball, softball, soccer, basketball, football etc. pretty much every day and I was no athlete. I was not an overweight slug that playgrounds are full of today. No wonder kids spend their days goading compatriots to suicide or doing recreational drugs.
Scar: we got a principal elected as Mayor.
A laff a minute I tell you.
When we were kids,the teachers forbade throwing snowballs,as “someone could lose an eye”.
So, we waited until AFTER school,and ambushed every kid we saw.
No one ever lost an eye.
“a diff bob”, in addition to commenting,most of us contact the person who is in authority over the situation mentioned,in this case,the head of the Toronto School Board,and E-mail him with our opinion.
In this case,I don’t care, so won’t bother to do more than comment here.
Well, at least the kids seem to like her … oh, wait.
http://ca.ratemyteachers.com/alicia-fernandez/1172301-t
These measures are not designed to make children safer. In this case, the action was in response to an adult being at risk.
Thes actions are designed to keep teacher’s and administrator’s jobs and pensions safer. This is accomplished by hiding behind the holy shield of children’s safety.
And to think the monkey bars I played on were built on a cement based tarmac. Our generation survived and learned about our own limits in the process.
this woman has turned her school into a laughing stock.
I also blame the lawyers.
jeezuz murphy.
But..but…if children are NOT raised to be timid, dependent and compliant…how can we ensure that they are always receptive to the directions of the Nanny State?
That would be intolerable. /sarc
different bob at November 17, 2011 12:03 AM
Precisely.
http://www.tdsb.on.ca/help/
Thankfully I was born long before this wussification started and I went to an elementary school in the country that had a big playground. We played ‘murderball’ on the soccer field. I believe the only rules were ‘no kicks to the groin’ and ‘no eyepoking’. In winter we played king of the hill on 10-15′ high snowbanks and hip checked each other on the rink. These kids will be crybaby adults.
Seriously, how do you get a concussion from a soccer ball? I suspect someone is looking to sue the school board.
Bullying wouldn’t be such an issue at schools if the administration and teachers didn’t model it so perfectly.
Thanks for the link to the Free Range Kids authour.
It’s the pussification of today’s young. (And those that set the rules).
Its a deflection. The real question would be to ask why was the teacher/supervisor allowing kids to play soccer in the pick up and drop off zone. Were the children not being supervised by the school staff? where was the responsible adult? why wer the kids not directed to play on the sports field instead of the side walk or the parking lot where the unfortunate parent was picking up her kid?
This is the question that should be asked of the idiots in charge, because it would show they were negligent.
Instead of banning balls….sounds like someone needs to find some!
The present safety culture with big business is no different.
Treat people like little kids and they will act like little kids who take no responsibility for anything.
A safety net for everything, ’tis an infantile world…
What’s next? Banning children?
They could always stand around and practice chanting!
“…. Now that I have your attention…….just WTF do we DO ABOUT IT?????????”
I like the idea of re-orientation camps. If you are not engaged in PRODUCTIVE effort, off you go (all expenses paid) to the boreal forest for tree-planting, terra forming work … where you will be re-educated in the relationship between constructive work and eating, the relationship between common sense and survival.
All education programs from pre-school to PhD will be suspended .. and reviewed for relevancy.
It didn’t work for Pol Pot or Mao but their respective countries haven’t failed and are probably stronger for the near death experience.
J. Swift
Make the adults wear helmets and other protective gear while on the playground. Problem solved.
Hogtown is a mess. They just approved a new Africa centric school for grades K-12. MLK would have a fit. Will we now see White only schools as well? They also pander to over 70 different languages in their schools.
As is often the case, the person interviewed makes the show. After 40 seconds on the story & a gust of imaginary future outlandishments sucked from his thumbs, Charles brought in Lenore Skenazy, the “I let my son ride the New York subway” mum.
Charles kept pushing the “administrative” bit, but Lenore blamed parents who are “listening to the din of fear” in advertising & popular child-rearing literature.
And Charles couldn’t guess why some entity asked a play school that tree branches below 8 feet be lopped.
Perhaps he wasn’t as “free-range” as he thinks.
THe correct reaction:
You got beaned in the head by a soccer ball, how unfortunate. You got a concussion, now that is too bad. Do get well, and please do not operate machinery for a while.
And you kids! Keep the ball on the ground and in bounds!
Stop soccer? hahahahahah. Funny. Go away.