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No Cartwheels, No Tag, No Balls, Just Rules

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theabortionator
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http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-204_162-57606514/n.y-school-bans-balls-at-recess-cracks-down-on-tag-games-over-safety-fears/

Sounds pretty fun
Oct 8 2013 6:50PM
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brotherdad
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Oct 8 2013 6:52PM
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Barefootin_Fiend
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heard about this on the am radio show this morning. apparently they can still use nerf balls - only hard balls have been banned. If i recall, we couldn't use real baseballs at recess because of the risk of injury. However, there was no rule against real footballs. I seem to remember using nerf footballs (the whistling ones!) more than regular footballs anyway...


Oct 8 2013 6:56PM
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CrotchKiller
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glad i went through school when i did
Oct 8 2013 6:57PM
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Blurst
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Finally schools are getting it through their head that recess is too fucking dangerous. The amount of fractures and breaks I have to deal with everyday at the ER because of reckless kids playing at recess is fucking disgusting.
Oct 8 2013 6:59PM
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daannnnieel
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yay supervised tag, now there's no chance of absolutely decking kids who you don't like I guess.
Oct 8 2013 7:01PM
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Olimar
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This isnt that surprising. Its understandable that baseballs and lacross balls arnt allowed, normal footballs and soccer balls on the other hand is sorta ridiculous though. So is banning tag. But I really dont think this deserves to be in the news... The nerf weather proof (name?) footballs were better then the real ones back in the day any way.
Oct 8 2013 7:03PM
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theabortionator
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I can understand baseballs, especially in small areas. A baseball to the face will fuck your day up. Other than that let the kids be kids.



"I want you to get out into the fresh air and make some friends. Run around, scrape your knees, get dirty, climb trees, hop fences, get into trouble, for crying out loud, not too much, but some. You have my permission. How many mothers do you know who say something like that to their sons?"

For some reason it reminded me of the sandlot.

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Oct 8 2013 7:10PM
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GayWolf420
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Eh, you can bomb nerf footballs longer and easier anyways for those epic Hail Mary plays that made you the fucking man at the time. Tag being banned is absurd. Lets ban healthy physical activity in schools while we continue to feed kids horrible GMO filled school lunches. That's the real problem.
Oct 8 2013 7:16PM
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DaffyDaDak
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Well there goes recess for future generations. glad i went when i did
Oct 8 2013 7:19PM
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JAHpow
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Oct 8 2013 7:21PM
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Sit
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Wut? With all the things wrong with school lunches you managed to pick this?
Oct 8 2013 8:27PM
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Wolffy
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Oct 8 2013 8:39PM
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theBearJew
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No cartwheels... WTF man. That was all I did at recess. Now I gotta ask teach to do cartwheels.
Oct 8 2013 8:56PM
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MEDSKI.XXX
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That was my favorite part of playing tag back in the day, if some kid pissed you off you just run their shit down and beat them to the ground, nobody thought twice about we were just "playing tag"
Oct 8 2013 9:59PM
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-WZ-
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1.35 million emergency room visits each year are caused by sports, the most common being strains, sprains, fractures, bruises and scrapes...

who the fuck brings their kid to the ER for scrapes and brusies...
Oct 8 2013 11:10PM
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daannnnieel
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parents who were complete bitches growing up.
Oct 8 2013 11:12PM
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funkmaster
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i remember at my elementary school they banned running for a few months...
Oct 8 2013 11:27PM
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Oct 8 2013 11:57PM
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CheddarJack
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Story time!

Back in the days of elementary school, my friends and I had invented a game at recess. It started out as just soccer but since we were annoying little boys, a lot of us thought it was funny when we picked up the ball and threw it. As those who got annoyed by it started to not care, the game evolved into something new. Then one day, along comes Mr. Johnson. Being the hefty, unathletic, middle-aged man that he is, he was obviously the one to dictate sports... After a few minutes of observing our game, he decided to put an end to it. His reason? We were "playing soccer incorrectly." From that day on we were no longer aloud to throw soccer balls anymore.

During the following winter, dribbling during basketball games became unnecessary, mainly because of the snow though. Can you guess what happened next? Yeah, no more basketball in the snow. We thought that game was the shit because we would deck each other into the snow when the teachers weren't looking.

Thanks for the nostalgia, OP.
Oct 9 2013 12:14AM
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.Apex.
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We are raising bigger and bigger pussies. Don't coddle your kids this much its going to make them into pathetic sad sacks. Let them get down and dirty and learning something.
Oct 9 2013 12:40AM
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PsychedelicMoose
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Playing rough in school was fun, I remember always going home with scrapes and bruises.
Oct 9 2013 12:56AM
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Big5hifty
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MURICA

but really? come on. kids aren't even allowed to be kids anymore.
Oct 9 2013 12:57AM
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KrazyistKarl
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if my kids don't come back from school with bruises, i'll make sure they do, toughen em up with a good ol fashioned back hand or two.
Oct 9 2013 2:38AM
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.AR6rider.
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You sound like a giant pussy. Kids need to fall down and hurt themselves when they're young to learn they aren't invincible. All these stupid, new rules about "safety" and "fairness" do nothing but make kids believe they're all winners. They don't understand competition and are shocked when they don't receive promotions and raises for mediocrity when they grow up. Pussies like yourself try to keep children in a bubble and it is slowly ruining society.
Oct 9 2013 8:49AM
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CrotchKiller
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Holy shit, you're a pussy
Oct 9 2013 9:29AM
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corona
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I'm pretty sure he was having a sarcasm.
Oct 9 2013 9:54AM
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corona
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"90 percent increase in the number of children admitted to emergency rooms with sports-related head injuries over the past decade."


there's obviously not an actual 90% increase in head injuries in children. I wonder what's inflating this statistic so drastically? It can't be the pure fact of parents being too worried and bringing in their children for every single little bump to the head.
Oct 9 2013 9:56AM
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SeanTom
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very very stupid overprotective parents who's insurance (or lack there of) dictates that they go to the ER for their childs "life threatening injury".

and holy shit. this is going to be a generation of psychopaths. Physical activity is basically frowned upon, electronics and technology everywhere, mediocre food for almost everyone, and Ritalin (and other like drugs) are being spoon-fed to kids to curb what i'm sure in most cases is their natural energy and desire to adventure and explore.
Oct 9 2013 10:08AM
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Brenone
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The pussification of America......
Oct 9 2013 10:58AM
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theabortionator
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Bingo. If you hurt your finger they try and send you to the hospital. I can understand these days though with all the lawsuits. Somebody getting hit in the head with a basketball at recess probably won't die though.

Sometimes you need to get hit in the head. I mean Isaac Newton got hit in the dome by an apple and discovered gravity.
Oct 9 2013 11:14AM
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Fluttershy
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I've actually been thinking of this myself. prolonged social ostracization or just a prolonged period of time with little contact (basement dwelling, which seems to be encouraged now due to shit like this news article) can lead to decreased emotions towards other people. People seem to be less interested with social interaction now, so given time this trend will increase. I also feel like a good majority of the people i talk to now just have a general "fuck you" attitude, and they don't seem to care about what happens to other people or how they treat each other. Not to mention how competitive jobs are right now, people are going to be more willing to screw each other over in order to advance in the workplace. It could just be social influence of the area that I live, but I'm curious to see how the next generation of kids is going to act
Oct 9 2013 2:09PM
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Holte
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Exactly my thought. The article that it links to states:

"Of the 25,000-plus children who presented to an emergency room following a TBI over the last decade, about 15 percent -- or almost 3,900 cases -- were caused by sports. Nearly three-quarters of them were males.

During the study-period, the researchers saw a 92 percent spike in the number of TBI-related ER visits. However, they did not see a rise in the number of children who had been admitted to the hospital following the visit, which suggests more kids aren't getting seriously hurt."

So how are the other 85% getting hurt? Car crashes are the only other common non-sports related accident that I can think of, and cars are a lot safer now than they were a decade ago. And if only 15% of these injuries are sports related, how on earth is that declared justification for cancelling recess?
Oct 9 2013 4:01PM
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