Posted on 10/06/2015 4:55:48 PM PDT by markomalley
Two elementary schools in the Edina Public Schools district in Minnesota have spent $30,000 to hire recess consultants in order to make kids playtime more inclusive.
The two schools, Concord and Normandale Elementary, are receiving guidance from a firm called Playworks on how to avoid recess-time tragedies like a kid getting his feelings hurt, according to an article in the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
One of the aims of the firm is to banish potentially traumatizing phrases such as Hey, youre out and instead use good job or nice try. After all, ceaseless affirmation of their perfection is all that snowflakes this special deserve to hear.
Of course, just suggesting these kinds of changes wouldnt be enough. Thats why Playworks also organizes recess-time activities, such as foursquare and jump rope, that are overseen by adults and designed to reduce disciplinary problems while ensuring no children are left out, according to the Star Tribune.
A lot of parents perhaps having hoped that their kids would be learning the skills they need to function in the real world during school have said that theyre not happy about the adult-structured playtime. Still, Normandale Elementary principal Chris Holden has insisted that the program is a good thing for the kids, because fewer of them have been called to the principals office after recess since its started.
I dont doubt that at all. After all, what with the constant correction and micromanaging of kids social interactions, Playworks effectively turns the playground into the principals office which would definitely result in fewer reasons to go.
School officials say they are currently considering implementing the program district-wide.
I like you. When I rule absolutely yours will be a quick and painless death.
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It seems that Meadow View and Sunny Hill might make you a Bemidji Lumberjack?
I want Ativan, Haldol, Morphine, then Diprivan.
Thanks....your Highness!!
Yes it does. Graduated in 1975.
The consultants, the administrators and the superintendent all have psychological residule scarring from being ridiculed as children. Weak weenies. Losers making all children losers.
Today we would be called “free-range kids,” and our parents’ values and parenting skills would be questioned :(
So this disctrict has $30,000 to spend on recess consultants?! Wonder if they had any teacher cuts this year—seems $30,000 would go far in the hire of a teacher that actually teaches actual subject matter...
And when these kids are released from their nice, comfy cocoons of superficial affirmation, should we be surprised some return and shoot up schools and work places?
This seems to be the main trick in the liberal playbook.
It's exactly the way that they excuse the Obama regime from being accountable for their myriad failures.
The world is overflowing with violence, the achievements of decades of American diplomacy and strategic planning are being flushed down the toilet, and America's enemies are celebrating their ascendancy and good fortune at having a fool and weakling in the Oval Office, and all that liberals can say about it is "good job" or "nice try".
I was 1964.
Professor! Please! Society is never gonna make any progress until we all learn to pretend to like each other.
Leela from Futurama
Government controlled schools must be abolished.
End of discussion.
The real fun was jumping from the top of the monkey bars ... we learned right quick how to roll out a landing.
And college staff wonder where the precious snowflakes who called campus security over a mouse in their apartment, then needed counseling from the trauma come from....
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