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1 posted on 03/18/2002 3:49:25 PM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection
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whether they let kids make human targets out of their classmates

Bias. More accurate would be to say: "whether they let kids make human targets of themselves to their classmates. BIG difference.

In 1963, when I was in seventh grade, we got a new principal. One of the first things he did was stop dodge ball, a hallowed formal and informal recreation much beloved by my classmates and I.

I wasn't good at a lot of sports, but I was good at dodging. I used to love to do it. I was outraged at this new interloper for his idiotic rigidity.

Guess he's mainstream now. It's enough to make you puke.

2 posted on 03/18/2002 3:59:43 PM PST by Maceman
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When I was in 7th grade gym class, I broke my right pinky catching a dodge ball thrown from close range....by a girl :-)

Only bone I've ever broken. Maybe the Prof has a point :-).

I don't feel all that emotionally scarred though.

5 posted on 03/18/2002 5:35:52 PM PST by John H K
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My grade school was during the Eisenhower administration from construction in 1952 to the fraudulent election of Kennedy.

Dodge ball was strictly lunchtime recess in the asphalt play yard bordered on three sides by the brick walls of the H-shaped school, and by the iron fence on the fourth.

We played a version in which those tagged out by the throw of the red rather soft ball smaller than a basketball stood on the sidelines and cheered--and I think we could catch the ball if it came to us, and throw it to our allies.

There was action, suspense, great fun--and only a scrape or two that anybody got during all that time.

There was none of this so-horrible psycho-sexual abuse described by the current crop of "experts"--who have given us the "Kleibold-Harris Dodge-Ball Variant": "Dodge Bullet".

The consistent intent of all of this de-competitiveness is to reduce the young to soft, obese wimps.

9 posted on 03/18/2002 6:43:59 PM PST by PhilDragoo
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"The real deal-breaker, though, is that the game can hurt children's feelings" (Los Angeles Times)

So can losing a chess game! Our PC government schools are so obsessed with "self-esteem" that it has resulted in not just the pressure to end competitive sports, especially those some kid will be last picked for a team in - but also resulted in the dumbing down of curricula and textbooks.

Inside the NEA

11 posted on 03/19/2002 3:17:16 AM PST by glc1173@aol.com
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These people really are daft, aren't they?
12 posted on 03/19/2002 3:18:31 AM PST by backhoe
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