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.
Pussify the children. They make good Liberals.
Sounds to me like the world would be a much better place if more people got hit in the head with soccer balls – hard. Why are people so stupid?? Accidents happen – this is NOT the way to deal with it.
the correct first response would be for the affected children to scour their homes for any unlocked handguns, take it to school and put a goddamm bullet right in the chest of the first teacher they see.
maybe THAT will put an end to bullying by teachers because that’s what this is.
School yards should be lined with pillows and hard vertical surfaces should be buffered with mattresses. And make sure kids only have balls made of cotton wool. That just about do it to achieve the risk-free state of bliss so many school officials seem determined to create.
Is it an actual requirement that to become a school principal these days you must be devoid of all common sense? Or does it just seem like it?
“Most balls?” Does that include male youngster’s most important ones? It seems the feminization of boys goes on apace.
I’m with J. Swift on this one, all education should be suspended forthwith. What with all the bullying, standardized testing and random ball attacks it’s clear that public education poses a threat to the physical and emothional well being of the special snowflakes.
Really, it makes no difference, as the schools have already watered down physical activity to a joke. This is just one small step on top of years and years of similar moves.
The bottom line is, kids don’t get a proper physical education at school today. It’s imperative that you put your kids in community and private leagues outside of school if your kids are to have any athletic success. Especially if you wish them to play competitively at a high school or teenage level.
I’ve said here many times before, that the basketball and softball coaches push my daughter waaayyy harder than any of her school teachers ever have. She learns more about hard work, responsibility, commitment, success and failure in her sporting education than she could ever learn in the public school system.
Don’t depend on the schools for your kid’s athletics education. In fact, I wouldn’t depend on the public school system for anything.
I always thought the modern education system had no balls.
I never realized it wasn’t just a metaphor though.
“Hogtown is a mess. They just approved a new Africa centric school for grades K-12. MLK would have a fit.”
I’ve got a good idea. Why don’t we make separate sections for blacks on buses? Idiots!
If there’s anything worth chirping about, chirp about getting a federal school voucher program.
And when lefties froth about this suggested fascist ruthless right wing privatization that will surely hurt children, point out that their oft-cited socialist utopia Sweden has a national voucher program.
There has been a distinct lack of balls in the Toronto school system for far too long. This is just another symptom.
I had small bone in my wrist broken when it got hit by a dodgeball in elementary school. I wore a cast for 6 weeks. BFD.
As for blaming the kid who kicked the soccer ball that concussed the mama? Yeah, right, six year-olds are known far and wide for having dead aim with soccer kicks….accidents happen, get over it.
Schools have banned dodgeball and floor hockey, while others have outlawed contact sports like tag…..
Tag, REALLY??? SERIOUSLY…?
My kids go to school in Halton and balls have been banned in their schoolyard for 2 years now. Even the tiny super-balls are banned.
I’ve already had words with the administration over it, but the Pinot-swilling soccer mommies outnumber me.
Most of the world plays soccer. Soccer is popular because tough little kids in back lots and alleys like kicking balls around, and they know if they are good they can go on to superstardom.
I personally would bounce a few balls off teachers’ heads. I probably did so once or twice.
This is what you get when women rule the world. Oh yes, when the boys rebel they will call it ADD and dope the kids to the gills.
“…. This is what you get when women rule the world. Oh yes, when the boys rebel they will call it ADD and dope the kids to the gills.”
Men civilize men. Women domesticate men.
De-balling.
Rarely does a literal act so perfectly belie the figurative ideal of emasculation.
“WE WANT OUR BALLS BACK”
Yes, in every sense of the word.
http://www.thestar.com/news/article/1087874–students-revolt-we-want-our-balls-back
Grey Lasy @ 6:49
Bullying wouldn’t be such an issue at schools if the administration and teachers didn’t model it so perfectly.
Well said.
The nanny state: ball-less schools in a ball-less society.
When individuals are not held accountable for their actions, they inevitably lose their freedoms.
That said, excessive litigation is probably a contributing factor – the law of unexpected consequences.
Gee I don’t know where to start….
I think Grey Lady nails it…
Just down the road, there is the remains of one of those “consolidated schools” that meant kids had to be bused….
Prior to it’s USSR like collapse, the principle finally decreeded that the kids were not allowed to even RUN…anywhere. The kid in the house, next door couldn’t go home for lunch and had to use the bus for those 50 ft.
Then part of the school, was turned over to that disaster called “french immersion”….then the whole place became “french immersion”. Then the regional school board and Queens park decided it and the other scattered “french immersion” schools should be consolidated into one school and a new facility was constructed and the edifice down the road now
stands empty.
Meanwhile, directly across from the school, the Provincial Regional Centre was closed, most of the building razed and some sold for housing developement….while a huge proportion was devoted to the area’s vastly popular soccer programme….a patchwork of soccer pitches….a purpose for which the school’s playground was off-limits….
Result about 50 acres of soccerfields are maintained by industrial strength lawnmowers…some agency mows the now abandoned school lawns….the school is unavailable even as a polling station for elections…
All the district’s elementary kids have long bus ride each day, no running etc….english or french….
The amateur soccer programme features acres of swarms of little kids running up and down…a thing of beauty….
I grew up in a 1-room school where soft-ball was the major activity with lots of unorganized, unsupervised soccer. High school featured a cadet corps and a well appointed rifle range….every kid had to learn to shoot…with REAL bullets….but no one was shot….
An associate, does part time for a local tire dealer….he has to to licensed to “touch” a truck tire…okay….but when called to service a flat on a rig on the 401(free-way) he MUST not exit his service vehicle until a police cruiser attends…despite the service vehicle’s mandated warning light array, mandated triangles etc.
This is more a reflection on the state of mind/competance of other motorists ( aspiring Mario Andrette’s)than anything….
Despite the mandated SMV signs and light arrays on farm equipment…they still get rear-ended.
I think I will just leave off there rather than give the hand-wringers any further ideas….
“the correct first response would be for the affected children to scour their homes for any unlocked handguns, take it to school and put a goddamm bullet right in the chest of the first teacher they see.”
maybe THAT will put an end to bullying by teachers because that’s what this is.
Posted by: 1st responder at November 17, 2011 10:02 AM
Yes that’s just how all we right-wingers think; you’ve captured it perfectly. Unsafe guns wielded by children and Columbine-style mass murders is what we’re into. We’re a bloodthirsty bunch. Thanks Mr. troll!
Emphases mine above re. the Troll, who is, if I haven’t mentioned it, a troll.
re. the “chickification” thing, I couldn’t agree more. I would say that any organization primarily consisting of women, and run by women, such as, you know, a school, is bound to suck. Women in groups cannot seem to get anything achieved. Individual women can accomplish things, but when estrogen-poisoning takes over an organization all is lost.
re. schools sucking in general – I was recently spending time with a bunch of elementary children. I noticed that some of them had little stamps on their arms; stamps which identified them as being of African Heritage. I think it’s appalling that their school would would single out little kids with (sometimes only a trace of) African ancestry and then stamp them. It’s racist, it’s intrusive, it’s creepy, and it emphasizes differences for no good reason.
…. and they keep flushing estrogen into the water supply.
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“scars says… I’ve got a good idea. Why don’t we make separate
sections for blacks on buses? Idiots!”
and, more importantly… celebrate that august victory.
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Oh for the good old days. Forget soccer, we had softball diamonds (small and overlapping) for Grades 4 – 6. The little kids just ran around playing tag, etc.
Making rules based on extreme outliers, hmmm.
Maybe all women should be banned from positions of authourity because a few women have PMS and can’t be relied upon to be rational all of the time.
Maybe all women should be banned from positions of authourity because a few women have PMS and can’t be relied upon to be rational all of the time.
Can’t be too careful. Safety First…:)
1st responder >
Your an idiot, your Moby tactical crap goes nowhere around here, save for the fact that you further prove what nutcases the left are and highlight the amount of mentally ill energy your willing to use.
That reminds me…
someone I know who occasionally signs songs for kids in daycare centers told me he was not allowed to sign a song that mentions peanuts.
There were no actual peanuts, just the word, and it was not allowed.
It did not even tell kids to eat peanuts, it simply mentioned peanuts – that is it.
Somehow the leftist feminists running the daycare center were convinced the word peanut was dangerous to kids who may or may not have been allergic to peanuts.
Insane I know.
But since leftists are now the establishement and since they are all insane, one must face the fact that the world is being run by crazy people…
Hang on as it is only going to get worse as the leftists will not stop until there is nothing left to destroy.
When I was a boy, a popular schoolyard game for fall and winter was “British Bulldog”.
One boy was “it”; he stood at the midpoint of the football field. All the other boys – 30-40 or so, as all the grade 4,5, and 6’s played – stood at one end. “It” yelled “British!!!”, and all the boys ran from one end to the other, where they were safe. “It” tackled as many boys as he could – no pads of any kind, mind you – who then joined him, tackling in the middle. This back and forth continued until there was only boy left. Imagine – one boy, running down a field, pursued by 30 would-be tacklers. Now, imagine the school’s only male teacher standing on the sideline, watching and laughing.
Oh, we’ve come a long way..
Before I started school (1933), a girl died after being struck on the head by the wooden seat of a swing when she pushed another girl on the swing and ran under.
Each year we were told not to run under the swing when we were pushing someone. Full stop.
No notes home to the parents warning them of the danger.
The principal and the teachers were unmarried females who were tougher than 99% of the male teachers are today.
“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”
Hey lady, you’re doing it wrong!
Like the occupiers sign that said “I’m so mad….I made this sign”. In this case these decisions are getting so stupid that the words don’t exist to describe just how stupid they are.
Now if you’ll please excuse me I need to go wrap the kids in bubble wrap before they go to bed, after all we wouldn’t want them to fall out of bed.
my daughter told me back at the start of the new school season that in the letter she rec’d from the school they were to supply a sleave of Tennis Balls for ea. child attending this yr.(i have 3gr daughters)
I thought well thats strange i said to my daughter where is the tennis court at the school, The balls are not for Tennis they are for them to cut in half & place on the desk legs & chairs So the floors dont get as marked.
I shook my head then said to her to not buy them you have enough to buy now for the kids that the schools dont suppply & tell her freinds not too, The Fnnnn school board wants to keep the floors from getting marked they can buy them, so they can go stuff it. And if they have a problem with that i & a few other taxpayers will be at the next board meeting to voice my opinion, Until then tell them to stick to teaching.
I have not heard a thing about it since. And off topic But if the kids take packaging for lunch they have to take it home at he end of the day, Because the school is a garbage free zone.
No Fnnnnn wonder my school taxes are outrages. I’d luv to have their frignnn pension plan toooo.
I love the headline on Steyn’s blog: “Canadians Lose Their Balls”.
More idiotic rules from the local school (which the kids break en mass every freakin’ day that they can, God bless their little black hearts!)
-no snowballs (somebody might lose an eye)
-no snow forts higher than 3 ft (somebody might fall)
-no sliding on the ice (HEAD INJURY! AIIIIEEEEE!)
-no snowmen (no particular reason)
-and of course the inevitable Conflict Resolution/anti-bullying BS. Kids usually give up and just punch bullies out after going through the Conflict Resolution dance a few times.
However they still allow soccer at recess. Country school, parents don’t approve of the PC crapola.
Black Mamba@ 1:58, next will come the star of David on the jackets and shirts.
Ken – well I assume it was some idiot feel-good Parise-Barry (they have pictures of Barry along with MLK in the classrooms BTW) BS-UN-day exercise in this particular instance, but yeah, I don’t think I’m usually overly dramatic, and I thought “Nuremberg Laws”. Why the hell are they singling out little children by race in public schools?
I won’t bother with the whole “imagine if it were a European Heritage celebration” routine.
Ah, “British Bulldog”. Trudging across the schoolyard while carrying a dozen third and fourth graders on your back. Good times.
“They just approved a new Africa centric school”
Yup, we all know how good things are in Africa.
There are several good points here.
Unless the soccer ball was made out of limestone and the teachers couldn’t see invisible children playing in a drop-off zone, this entire incident proves that the great West is infected with morons.
Why?
Our academic class are at war with its own Society. To them your nothing but a serf who pays their way.
In a life completely isolated from reality. I bet most of these nuts who ban these things don’t even have real children, themselves.
You could send your kids to school with a bag of marshmellows to play with at recess…oh wait, food policy says no marshmellows.
KevinB, I had forgotten all about Britsh Bulldog until you described it, although I think we called it something else. Good times.