Posted on 07/29/2006 8:43:38 PM PDT by tbird5
Maybe it's the cyclist in the park, trim under his sleek metallic blue helmet, cruising along the dirt path... at three miles an hour. On his tricycle.
Or perhaps it's today's playground, all-rubber-cushioned surface where kids used to skin their knees. And... wait a minute... those aren't little kids playing. Their mommies—and especially their daddies—are in there with them, coplaying or play-by-play coaching. Few take it half-easy on the perimeter benches, as parents used to do, letting the kids figure things out for themselves.
Then there are the sanitizing gels, with which over a third of parents now send their kids to school, according to a recent survey. Presumably, parents now worry that school bathrooms are not good enough for their children.
Consider the teacher new to an upscale suburban town. Shuffling through the sheaf of reports certifying the educational "accommodations" he was required to make for many of his history students, he was struck by the exhaustive, well-written—and obviously costly—one on behalf of a girl who was already proving among the most competent of his ninth-graders. "She's somewhat neurotic," he confides, "but she is bright, organized and conscientious—the type who'd get to school to turn in a paper on time, even if she were dying of stomach flu." He finally found the disability he was to make allowances for: difficulty with Gestalt thinking. The 13-year-old "couldn't see the big picture." That cleverly devised defect (what 13-year-old can construct the big picture?) would allow her to take all her tests untimed, especially the big one at the end of the rainbow, the college-worthy SAT
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did you see this article? Blasted lawyers.
This overprotective stuff also may stem somewhat from Child Protective Services running out of control. It's a feather in CPS's cap to "get" a middle class family.
bttt
DAMN!! Keep that kid off the mound, he's going to give someone a concussion.... In 2 innings he knocked out 5 batters? He needs to work on his control!
Yuck!
When I was living in Cali.... kids walked to school.. no bussing. It was a fairly regular occurrance that a child or another escaped someone trying to lure them into their car.
Of course, it was also a place where illegals sexually harrassed 4th and 5th graders walking home too...
Cess Pool.. so damned glad I'm out of there.
I'd laugh em out too...
IF you haven't cut the cord by the time you've graduated college, I don't want you working for me.
geez, you make a lot of assumptions...Do you have kids?
In some respects we're becoming a Nation of Spoiled Wimps. Nowadays kids want for very little.
Anyhoo...this is oldie thread given new life.
FRegards, PaMom
You're right. Example: Virginia Tech.
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