HA! First dodge ball, now tag!

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment...149jun12.story

what a load of crap. By banning all this competiton games and make it so everything is fair hurts kids in the long run. Life is NOT fair. These are kids games. you play it as a kid to enjoy it. I think these adults who brought up these bannings lost touch of there kid side.

for reasons that included issues of self-esteem

ohh booo f@cking whoo. the world does not revole around one person and if you think that. then you are gonna have a hard awaking.

[NeoStarO1]

That is horrid! that is a child's game, I used to play that as a child all the time as well as football, and many other sports.

What is the world coming to? Geezz by taking childrens sports away.

yeah America kids are getting bigger and lazier yet we limit the game they can play so it will be fair. give me a break

[edwelly]

I wish that parents would unite and make a stand. If the parents stood up (united together) and said we are tired of the crap that the scholl system is shoving in our faces, then we might have a chance. I think it is awful the amount of power they give a principal... and you see more and more abuse of the power each day...
---edwelly

[caddmannq]

I hate to decry public schools, as a lot of my income flows from designing them.

But it seems that public school administrators are suffering en masse from a disease of the brain that precludes the consideration of common sense in decision making. Constantly I hear the cry for more money to solve their problems, when the most serious of the problems seem to be self inflicted. Public schools have long failed to face effectively the most difficult problems in education and socialization, and increasingly concentrate their focus on miniscule problems that they blow out of proportion to give the impression that they're working really hard to improve things. It's a big smokescreen, folks.

I'm seeing a lot more parent protests out here, but quite often about the same type of non-issues. People who take offense easily go blowing their horn about some trivia.

Mostly I see the constant migration to private/home schooling.

[Cruez]

This is the crap that pisses me off....whoever came up with the reasons to stop it need to be taken out in the ocean and dropped with a load of bricks.........

Its called Natural Selection.....

[ClubMed]

I propose we also ban basketball and football as there is only one ball and too many people, so there will be many players without balls and this will damage their self-esteem..

[Theophylact]

edwelly,

Part of the problem is the parents who kick and scream if anything untoward happens/doesn't happen to their little ones. Bypassing teachers to have their kid's grade raised. Threatening lawsuits if their handicapped kid is/isn't mainstreamed. Trying to force/prevent display of the Ten Commandments.

Of course administrators fall back on stupid, no-exception, nit-picking rules. They can always defend them as being consistent. It's not political correctness, it's the learned cowardice that comes from getting beaten up on all the time.

In general we get what we pay for. In this country, we've never valued education, so we pay our teachers badly and train them worse. And the ones who aren't very good at teaching but who are still ambitious, become the administrators.

[caddmannq]

...there will be many players without balls ...

The real problem, of course, is the school administrators without balls...

[edwelly]

In general we get what we pay for. In this country, we've never valued education, so we pay our teachers badly and train them worse. And the ones who aren't very good at teaching but who are still ambitious, become the administrators.

amazing, truly amazing... I never quite looked at it that way before... thank you!
---edwelly