[notpoliticallycorewrecked]

I would like to weight in on this issue:

Last year I taught a variety of subjects in the upper grades at a private Christian school. We had a few students at the school that were into the gymnastic stunts.

The problems weren't that they were doing handstands and cartwheels. The problem was that they were doing them indoors in the classrooms or in areas where there were crowds of students. On several occasions they hit another student with their feet or hands at a high rate of speed that is required to preform such stunts.

I had one student hit me in mouth with his foot while he was doing a cartwheel in PE. We were playing baseball at the time not doing gymnastics, so it was an inappropriate maneuver. I was next to the group of students that were waiting their turn at bat. I actually encouraged them to do their stunts during lunch hour, but out in the open field area without a large amount of students around. But they didn't want to do it out in the open areas, not they wanted to preform by the lockers or in the hallways to get the attention of everyone. This proved my point that they were preforming these stunts not for the sake of exercise, but to show off.

[CindyDawg]

Well, I still think the underlying problem here is a child that feels she doesn't have to obey and a parent that supports her.

[Finny]

Ah ... er ... I hope you didn't teach English or spelling. The kids didn't "preform," they "PERformed."

[The Red Zone]

We were playing baseball at the time not doing gymnastics, so it was an inappropriate maneuver.

The rules of basketball prohibit that kind of motion on the court? Huh. I'd have challenged them to try to shoot the hoop, using their feet.