Posted on 11/11/2004 8:09:04 PM PST by mark502inf
LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters) -- Cartwheels and handstands have gotten an 11-year-old girl temporarily bounced out of her Los Angeles-area school.
Deirdre Faegre was suspended for a week after repeatedly disobeying school officials who told her not to perform gymnastic stunts during lunchtime.
"Our first concern is the safety of all children," San Jose-Edison Academy Principal Denise Patton told the San Gabriel Valley Tribune.
Patton said Deirdre could accidentally strike another student, or injure herself, and other children could get hurt trying to imitate Deirdre, who has been doing gymnastics for five years.
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And a quote from the source: They said gymnastics on the playground creates an unsafe situation.
My word, I would have been suspended for a month doing roundoff-back handspring-back aerial flips competitions with a bunch of kids today. Oh and I never took gymnastics to learn it, so that is doubly dangerous...yeesh...
And you expect us to take the word of the MSM?
The ComradeCitizens of the Peoples Democratic FreeRepublic have decided that she was doing them in the lunchroom.
And
"I thought they were absolutely weird, because I see other kids playing baseball and soccer and I think that's more dangerous than gymnastics," Faegre said.
Obviously a smokescreen. The school authorities would never allow playing of baseball and soccer in the lunchroom.
B.S. Her first concern is not allowing anyone to have fun or express an un-pc opinion.
When I was 13 - 15 Evel Knieval was in his prime, and we tried our best to imitate him by setting up ramps - a launching and a landing - on the playground and soaring over them on our dirt bikes. Man that was fun. We'd be expelled in today's climate, no doubt. ......and if not for that then for kissing girls. .....oh, the humanity!
Meanwhile there seem to be a few reasons to emigrate America for a new try in good "old" Europe. We would welcome this young lady and her family for a better future. Although here are also a few things that are "verboten", cartwheels are usually no problem on German schools. It is for sure that nobody is being kicked out for doing that.
I have my kids on a private catholic school owned by the Jesuites here in Germany and their nessesary mix between freedom and dutys is not bad.
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