Posted on 12/15/2007 10:38:08 PM PST by fgoodwin
Children at Oakdale School here in southeastern Connecticut returned this fall to learn that their traditional recess had gone the way of the peanut butter sandwich and the Gumby lunchbox.
No longer could they let off youthful energy — pent up from hours of long division — by cavorting outside for 22 minutes of unstructured play, or perhaps a vigorous game of tag or dodgeball. Such games had been virtually banned by the principal, Mark S. Johnson, along with kickball, soccer and other “body-banging” activities, as he put it, where knees — and feelings — might get bruised.
Instead, children are encouraged to jump rope, play with Hula Hoops or gently fling a Frisbee. Balls are practically controlled substances, parceled out under close supervision by playground monitors.
The traditional recess, a rite of grade school, is endangered not only in Oakdale School here in Montville, a town of 18,500. From Cheyenne, Wyo., to Wyckoff, N.J., recess — long seen as a way for children to develop social competence, recharge after long lessons, and resist obesity — is being rethought and pared down.
Such changes worry educators like Joe Frost, professor emeritus of education at the University of Texas, who has spent 30 years researching children’s play. He defended the traditional recess as a way to give children the freedom to make their own choices and said that it was “terrible, ill-advised and damaging” to inject so much structure and oversight.
“Children need to engage in games such as this in order to develop social skills, to learn to handle themselves, to avoid obesity, and to get the activities they need, and these are traditional games, going on for centuries,” Dr. Frost said. “It’s just difficult to imagine how a person in education could come up with such a bad idea.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
It’s not the country; it’s liberalism and all of its twisted manifestations that is truly sick.
With Folded Hands", Rating: Five Planets. by Jack Williamson. pub. 1947. collected in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol. IIA ... http://www.nvcc.edu/home/ataormina/scifi/works/stories/withfolded.htm
nd that included going out and back in.
So, I’m guessing Smear The Queer is right out?
No. That’s not even close to the story I was thinking about. I guess I’ll have to go look up what the title really was.
There’s another story which my stepson read for English which the world was made safer for people. They actually flattened the hills so kids wouldn’t fall down and get hurt. The kids were taken from their parents and raised collectively. I wish I could remember the name of it, but it was sounding very much like the type of world Hillary and Al Gore dream of.
Public schools working to create generations of ignorant, but arrogant sissies...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^666
I know you’re joking but, there is truth to what you posted.
Gays are invading the government school K-12 system. It’s the fresh meat, you see. Also, there is the “old boy gay network”. Gays hire other gays.
Coming soon to a government school near you, if it hasn’t already.
Let’s start calling it what it really is: Marxism!
Marxism is our nation’s most serious threat. It isn’t islamofascism. Schools are the Marxists’ most important weapon. They will win if they can win the hearts and minds of the next generation of voters.
In our government schools Marxists and their Useful Idiots are working hard to destroy freedom, and the nation’s citizens are oblivious.
They’re like termites. So....why aren’t Rush and Sean hammering on this every day?
Scratch a liberal and under his thin skin is a socialist. Dig a little deeper and you will soon find the Marxist nuclear fuel rod that drives everything he says and does.
Public schools working to create generations of ignorant, but arrogant sissies...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Marxist indoctrinators in government schools are working hard to create generations of easy to lead Useful Idiots ( as Lenin would call them).
“I want a do-over!!”
22 minutes of being bored to death rather than have tons of fun for 15?
If the self-esteem is low enough, putting on a condom becomes a superfluous skill. ;’)
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.