Posted on 10/07/2013 9:19:38 PM PDT by grundle
PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) — Worries about injuries at a Long Island school have led to a surprising ban.
As CBS 2’s Jennifer McLogan reported Monday, officials at Weber Middle School in Port Washington are worried that students are getting hurt during recess. Thus, they have instituted a ban on footballs, baseballs, lacrosse balls, or anything that might hurt someone on school grounds.
Hard soccer balls have been banned, along with baseballs and lacrosse balls, rough games of tag, or cartwheels unless supervised by a coach.
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I have fond memories of using half pint milk cartons for playing ‘ball’ at middle school lunch outside with fellow fast eaters. They worked well enough for us to get plenty of exercise and fun in.
Can they still use pencils?
Can the kids still play patty-cakes?
I think the banning restructuring of schools from competitive and boy friendly activities started in the very early 1970s.
‘Oh yea, we also played with balls of Mercury. Now, as I have read, a simple broken CFL requires the full emergency dispatch of a hazmat team. ‘
That’s cause mercury vapor AIN’T liquid.
In fact most folks don’t know fluorescents contain about 100000000 times the concentration of mercury gas you should ever be exposed to
The EPA itself uses your example of grandmas thermometer to downplay this risk as they force everyone to use those crisp curly cue toxic nightmares to save the planet
FYI.
‘Oh yea, we also played with balls of Mercury. Now, as I have read, a simple broken CFL requires the full emergency dispatch of a hazmat team. ‘
That’s cause mercury vapor AIN’T liquid.
In fact most folks don’t know fluorescents contain about 100000000 times the concentration of mercury gas you should ever be exposed to
The EPA itself uses your example of grandmas thermometer to downplay this risk as they force everyone to use those crisp curly cue toxic nightmares to save the planet
FYI.
They are using the lead paint bulcrap to remove all the good old apparatus from the playgrounds.
Some of the new stuff is ok though
And the river is still the river. And the beach th beach
Etc.
I live near SF and I always bring up the game Smear the Queer
Everyone gets these horrified looks. It’s quite hilarious
Pickup football is it. Always has been. Always will be. Tackle
When will the teachers start locking them up in rubber rooms wrapped in straight jackets for recess?
“In fact most folks don’t know fluorescents contain about 100000000 times the concentration of mercury gas you should ever be exposed to”
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So, one bulb has 100 million times more deadly vapor then one should get in a lifetime, and if one bulb breaks, I am breathing that in? Interesting, as I think that would be instant death.
If the vapor is THAT dangerous, why do they allow them to be sold? One other question...How does a hazmat team dispose of vapor/gas? I suspect that you are omitting other factors or reality.
Keep in mind, I do not like CFLs, but have had to use a few
due to lack of incandescent bulbs.
Sharp edges on desks must be banned too along with loud sounds that might hurt the ears, paper must be banned so no paper cuts, all hard surfaces padded, no doors to pinch the fingers, no books to fall on little feet.....
A lesson I learned pretty quick: if riding a bike down stairs, never, ever lean forward. I went splat on my face and somehow didn’t lose a tooth, but I still have the subdermal (would that be the right word?) chip that shows if you look for it.
Remember when your Mom yelled ‘dont forget your jacket’ when you ran out the door to school ? Tis is being replaced with now wrapping kids up in a foot of bubble wrap to protect them from all the imaginable horrors of ‘contact’ with another person or object. I guess the trophy of the purple knot on the forehead from recess is a long gone icon in the new ‘you’ll put your eye out’ nanny generation.
Wussville. . .
We have morons running schools
Now the urchins are really gonna get FAT!
“The USA is doomed, I don’t see how it can recover.”
That’s because you haven’t traveled through the south. In states like South Carolina, communities build baseball diamonds, football fields and playgrounds. And kids turn out by the thousands to play. It’s simply impossible to extrapolate what happens in wimpy New York City onto the rest of the US. Liberal NYC city grows wimpy metrosexuals who shop for purses; the south grows men who shop for weapons.
My husband went to this school in the 50’s and somehow he survived.
“Oh yea, we also played with balls of Mercury.”
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I had forgotten about them. Funny.
Every kid in the neighborhood had fists full of sparklers on the 4th of July which we would light while watching a HUGE bonfire at the local park. Boys would throw firecrackers at the girls. No more.
I had a part time job in downtown Boston at 17 and I would take public transportation home at night by myself. Now kids get picked up at high noon.
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