No competitive play on the playground. No running, even. Many schools do not permit their charges out on the playground at all.My wife teaches and notes the same things that this writer notes. Part of the problem is that discipline is outlawed so that Ritalin has become necessary to control normal boys. All that is one reason that we are no longer producing the numbers of scientists that we once did. We remain nr. one in science because we sill import the cream of other countries' schools but that is diminishing now, too.
As I wrote above, our 6th grade son is entering a military school this year. They do military style PT and play dodgeball for fun. Dodgeball!
"Part of the problem is that discipline is outlawed so that Ritalin has become necessary to control normal boys. All that is one reason that we are no longer producing the numbers of scientists that we once did."
Thank you! That's my point: that all children, boys in particular, need to run and play and expend all that energy so they can concentrate in school! All this fear of lawsuits is stupid. I had scabs on both knees all through childhood and I wasn't even a tomboy!