generation girlie man. "eek! i might break a nail."
pc will either create a generation of wimps and crybabies, or a generation that will rebel against it. i think that the jury is still out on this one.
Posted on 05/17/2008 12:27:39 PM PDT by Dawnsblood
No more tag or touch football for the students at Armatage Elementary in south Minneapolis.
The school now has an official "no touch" policy.
Originally the rule, circulated to parents Thursday, banned even casual touching such as hand-holding and hugging.
But Principal Joan Franks has now refined the policy to target aggressive and "unsafe" behavior such as play-fighting, pushing and shoving. And tag.
Some parents are not happy.
Nan Carlson, a mother of two children who attend Armatage Elementary, said it is "ridiculous" -- both overly politically correct and hard to enforce.
"I think [Franks] has the best interests of the children in mind," she said. "But this one came out of the blue, and it's just kind of weird."
(Excerpt) Read more at startribune.com ...
School Administrators should be more concerned about their teachers ‘touching’ students.
This is just freaking stupid. no one the kids are so fat, they can’t play like they used to anymore.
Only the teachers are still allowed to touch the kids.
We can call the next generation: Girly-People
generation girlie man. "eek! i might break a nail."
pc will either create a generation of wimps and crybabies, or a generation that will rebel against it. i think that the jury is still out on this one.
This guy probably would frown on the bb gun fights I and my friends used to have.
This woman is dangerous and should not be permitted to ever be in charge of seeing to the welfare of children.
All children must learn to accept the touch of there peers with out fear.
This woman seems to want to instill this fear.
All children need to be touched it is a basic need of social animals such as humans.
Children that grow up with out being touched are severely handicapped. They become withdrawn and extremely fearful of strangers.
Granted the children attending this school will have physical interactions at home but they will not become accustom to physical contact with their school peers and may come to have an irrational fear of the casual touch of a stranger.
Did you put your eye out?
Another public school fiasco? Whodathunkit?
Sigh.
Can we please abolish public schools? Or at the least get a voucher program?
Has anyone other than me noticed how hot these female teachers are who are cruising for our boys?
Yours truly,
The Woim
Rules are absolutely necessary in the operation of any institution. But I fail to see how whatever is going on in the stupid school administered by someone resembling Creon in Greek drama can help any young person grow up and mature into a productive member of society. Bureaucrats who are not armed with moral authority, common sense, and global thinking will resort to anything they are armed with and that is the power to institute stupid rules which cannot be easily and fairly enforced and thereby in the long run only undermines their authority but more importantly which causes kids to look at bureaucratic institutions and the impotent morons who govern them as a joke.
My uncle, who was only a couple years older than me, dared me to shoot my sister, which I promptly did. Thus ended my bb gun days.
This story gets complicated, keep up:
My mom promptly took away my bb gun as well as my uncle’s (Her brother) she got the argument from him, “you’re not my mom, you can’t keep my gun”. When dad and grampa got home, we both got our butts wore out and indeed my mom did not keep my uncle’s gun but grampa did and neither one of us ever got them back.
This happened more than 50 years ago and my sister, uncle and I still remember it well.
End of long winded story.
Or "Smear the queer". Remember that one? :)
Welcome to Minneapolis. Anybody want to by a house?
In Sweden students in 1st. grade are taught how to massage each other’s backs to reduce stress.
School recess (that twice per day 15 minute break for teachers, plus the 30 minute break after lunch) involved almost entirely contact games for the bigger kids, like free-for-all “football”. This consisted of fluidly-defined “teams” trying to get the ball (sometimes more than one ball) across the field and into the goalie net (it didn’t matter how this was accomplished). The rules were: no biting, no pulling hair, no spitting, no hits to the face. It was a game where you could be tackled, drop kicked, get hit by a shoe, have someone wrap a coat around your legs as you are running...every day there was an innovation in pain. The tradition was sadly extinguished a decade after I had left.
For after school, a large group would often go to the woods and play “thief”. Sometimes a soccer ball, sometimes a football, sometimes a tennis ball. The idea was, one person takes the ball and has 30 seconds to run like hell. After 30 seconds, the rest of us (sometimes five, sometimes ten, sometimes more) would rush to find him and pummel him mercilessly until the ball could be extricated from his grasp. The person capturing the ball must be the “thief” next round. Rules: no weapons, no trespassing on private property, no dropping the ball while you remain standing. None of us were psycho, so things like strangulation, kicking people in the face, etc were not an issue.
Regardless, we would have been charged with assault today. Rough play is a critical part of growing up, and kids missing out are not going to be well adjusted, and they are going to be wimps. Getting hurt is part of life...parents and other authority figures who coddle are doing immeasurable harm, despite their best intentions.
We weren't as clever with the naming where I grew up. We played the same game but gave it the simple but effective name "Kill the man with the ball". I suppose that would be frowned upon at the school in the article, though...
We used to play “smear the queer”. They would rebel against that on many levels today.
Fascist-eduKKKrats-running-amok-in-Minneapolis ping
Yeah, we had that but we called it "kill the guy with the ball". Our school was much too "progressive" to make an ill reference to the queer lifestyle.
I guess “smear the queer” isn’t allowed there either. Too many queers...
and bows and arrows...we used to stand about 50-75 yards apart and launch at each other...only 20 lb. bows but still enough to kill you.
Ha....your first sentence reminds me of a family story....my Uncle (age 3?) dared her brother, my Aunt (age 4) to chop off his finger with the axe they were playing with......she did!
Idiotic.
Why don't they just ban childhood?
Buck-Buck! Anyone remember it? Man you could get yourself killed playing that if the the teams were big enough.
This is not so stupid.
The problem is that there are a bunch of kids in public schools whose parents do not enforce any kind of discipline on their kids. These kids are way out of hand, and there are a lot of them.
My daughters were in a decent public school, but then the district closed it. The following year (3rd grade for my daughters), my girls went to where the district moved the kids from their closed school. The new school had 3/4 horrible kids. Lots of them were from illegal immigrant parents. If they weren’t illegals then they were on drugs and had all sorts of issues.
The nice kids kept on getting beat up. There were tons of discipline problems because kids did not know how to behave.
At that school, I would have supported a no touching policy because it was so out of control.
Teachers can only do so much. Parents have to also control their kids.
(My daughters are now in private school, and that school would not need a no touching policy.)
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
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