Posted on 04/14/2013 1:49:00 AM PDT by Olog-hai
America has come to Brit land
-—— the good ones——
There are no good ones.
There is guilt by association. For every lawsuit brought by a plaintiff, there is a defense lawyer.
The same lawyer-jury problems exist in all other areas (besides schools) to settle and raises business and insurance costs: car insurance, workers compensation and unemployment insurance, health insurance, property liability and fire insurance, etc. People on the take and lawyers are predators overwhelming the investigators and working folks.
That explains why recess has gone the way of the dinosaur.
Ah, in the good old days...
If we DIDN’T come back into class after recess dirty, sweaty, and a little pummeled... we weren’t doing it right.
I hate that it’s become a gravy train for the “gimme class”.
Some courts ignore liability releases. They claim no one can waive their rights. And since the law is ‘self-regulating’, they get away with that crap.
You bet they do. Our son is 22 and he and his buddies have always been outdoors playing pick-up and league games of hockey, baseball, football, soccer, basketball and la crosse as well as heading to the mountains for long days of snow-boarding. During breaks at home, you'll still find them outside playing rough sports.
We didn't have a single video game in the house until he was 16 and we finally relented and let him get an XBox his two older sisters complained loudly how "unfair" we were. But he quickly grew bored with the XBox, sold it after a couple years, and didn't miss it one bit.
Trial lawyers have taken a lot of the fun out of life for young people in this country as well.
At public parks and in school yards, jungle gyms, merry-go-rounds, teeter-totters and metal slides have largely disappeared. One can still find swings, but they don't seem to be as high as before.
Diving boards have also vanished from swimming pools. Even large institutions such as high schools, which can afford Olympic-size swimming pools do not install diving boards. And even private homes don't have them because the insurance is too expensive. The disappearance of diving boards may be a major reason why the US no longer dominates in diving at the Summer Olympics, a sport that it had dominated for decades.
i was goofing on the jungle gym in 3rd grade, slipped and fell. fortunately, as my mom said, i hit my head on the lower rung before crashing to the asphalt. no stitches, no lawsuits, was ready to go back to class by the time my mom saw the nurse. i got a good talking to from mom and dad about being careless. and the girl wasn’t impressed.
If the girl wasn’t impressed, the fall certainly wasn’t worth the effort. :=)
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