Posted on 06/14/2013 10:57:17 AM PDT by Starman417
Thinking about some of the other articles linked in the comments section as it relates to the topic in this earlier post about how children are being conditioned by our schools to view guns, I came across the following video that resonates with the ring of truth:
Randomly stumbled upon this article that mentions:
3) Dodgeball — The Wyndham School District in New Hampshire banned dodgeball and other “human target” games to prevent bullying, the Eagle-Tribune reported.
Even before Sandy Hook, allowance of dodgeball, I believe, has been on the wane due to being "too violent".
Are the adults making these decisions really part of my same generation:
“When I saw the names of some of these (dodgeball) games, unfortunately guys, we live in a world where 20 babies were slaughtered, Windham School Board member Stephanie Wimmer said. “We need to take the violence out of our schools and not teach it.”The board voted 4-1 to ban “human target games” for kindergarten through 12th grade at all schools. It cited a National Association for Sport and Physical Education study that called dodgeball inappropriate because “weaker” children are targeted more often and “being hit by a hard-thrown ball does not help kids develop confidence.”
(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net...
Ugh... so we can’t target animals for food or sport. We can’t fish, because fish have feelings? We can’t build a road because of a toad.
Our school systems are so freaking out of hand.
I liked dodge ball. My throwing arm was and still is a bazooka. ;^)
I’m gonna take a wild guess and say that the high school atheletic teams in this district suck on ice.
Waaah pansy Stephanie. And I know you're not talking about abortion. A sponge ball has nothing to do with babies.
Do you know you lib pansy that your town also makes AR-15 guns for sale?
I would have won the olympic gold medal in Dodgeball, if there were such a thing. Not only could I nail my targets with unnatural precision, sensing which way they’d jump and when before they did, I could evade any throw even at the last second. I could see the ball so well, it just seemed to be moving in slow motion. Sadly for me, such talent has no value in the grown-up’s marketplace.
We are the weakest generation the nation has yet seen.
We EARNED Obama and Pelosi and we deserve what coming for our kids and grand kids.
Certainly the ongoing homosexualization of the Boy Scouts is a good example of wussification.
I sucked at dodge ball. Still loved playing it.
Who, exactly, do you mean by “we”?
We EARNED Obama and Pelosi and we deserve what coming for our kids and grand kids.
They do not deserve it!
Dodgeball is a sport where being small is an advantage.
At our school the large guys were easy pickings for the fast and nimble.
America will never win another war—once a few body bags roll in—we will break out the white flags. We suffer from Bodybaga phobia. Thank you Hippies, than you MSM, Thank your Liberal lets just get along! If I was America’s enemies—I would attack now and end American Power—Now even the French are more ballsie than the USA. If America was like this in 1941 we would all be eatting shusi and driving Japanese cars.
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