Assault? In dodge ball? Isn’t that the point of dodge ball?
Just waiting for someone to bring up the movie “Dodgeball”.
I don’t know the specifics, but it might be a better procedure for the prosecutor’s office to do their investigation before filing charges.
10 year old kids.....not supposed to throw at the face.....the victim had a black eye and facial bruising.
I would have brought charges. Now the kid who threw the ball thinks he can get away with doing things that are not allowed in the rules of the game. A bad lesson to learn.
a wise man once said “no civilization can survive such institutionalized stupidity”
This ping list is for the other articles of interest to homeschoolers about education and public school. This can occasionally be a fairly high volume list. Articles pinged to the Another Reason to Homeschool List will be given the keyword of ARTH. (If I remember. If I forget, please feel free to add it yourself)
The main Homeschool Ping List handles the homeschool-specific articles. I hold both the Homeschool Ping List and the Another Reason to Homeschool Ping list. Please freepmail me to let me know if you would like to be added to or removed from either list, or both.
I've seen 10 year olds throw.
To say it was deliberate is a stretch.
It may have been but if he had actually been aiming for his head, based on what I've seen, the kids head would have been safe.
It’s called “Smear the Queer” for a reason.
How retarded
As a kid when we played this game it was a point to make it smart. If I didn’t get an ouch or a angry look back I’d feel like I wasn’t doing it right!
We played hard and rough. King of the Hill on a local construction site was murder. We kept band aid and Bactine in business.
I would have charged him on tetherball statutes...
This will be the end of all dodge ball games in schools across the country. Bunch o’ pansies!
We didn’t play dodge ball in the schools I went to as a kid ... we played “slaughter ball”. Man, those little red rubber balls could sting!
Rediculous BS. Govt bureaucrats obviously have too much time on their hands or too much staff.
I nailed my coach one game. My friend was on the other team. I gave him the sign to duck. Wham! Right in the gut. Never saw it coming.
Geez, when I played dodgeball in high school (we called it “bombardment”), we used leather volleyballs. Everyone tried to end up on the same team as the star pitcher because no one wanted to be on the receiving end of one of his throws.
>>>critics suggested the charges were racially motivated because the 10-year-old is black and the boy he hit is white<<<
If the Races were reversed, the White Kid would be serving 20 Years to Life.
“”It is categorically wrong to suggest that this was charged based on race””
Well, if it wasn’t, it’s the only thing in the country in the past 5 years that wasn’t......
He needs to sell and buy a smaller house with no garage and no HOA fees. “I can’t afford the house I live in” is not a sustainable strategy.
There is a subset of people in our society that has a level of savagery that a lot of people do not recognize. That savagery manifests itself in activities that were once considered relatively civil, but somewhat violent, such as dodge ball. When I was a kid we played dodge ball all the time. No one ever got hurt despite some players getting a little carried away. We would have never actually tried to seriously hurt someone. That is not the case with this subset of people. If anyone does not believe this do a little search on youtube. The average white kid cannot meet this subset on the subset’s level. They simply cannot.