this afternoon I was watching real sports with bryant gumbel.
They were discussing the wussification of sports in gym classes.
You know, dodge ball is bad becuase it makes kids feel bad about themselves and think of themselves as losers.
they then went on to tell of a school where they originally changed tag to shadow tag.
you're tagged when someone stepped on your shadow.

Since that no touch exercise was such a success, they expanded the program.

It is against school rules to ever touch another classmate for any reason.

I hope this principal is still teaching in 10 years so all of these 7-10 year olds can come back and sue her when they are getting therapy for intimacy issues she is creating.....


I chuckle when I think back to third grade.
They had this game called hill. ( no idea how it ever got the name)
all of the boys would line up on one side of the field except one.

He would call hill and they would all run to the other side.
His job was to tackle as many helpers as he could before they got to the other side.

The 'tackled' group would then call hill and the remainder would run across against the larger group of tacklers.

this would repeat until all players had gotten tackled.
it got real interesting when you had 3 runners and 120 tacklers.
then it would resume all over again.
age group first through 6th grade.

I don't recall anyone complaining about low self esteem.
a bloody lip or torn pants or a gashed open arm maybe. but self esteem wasn't discussed.

I seem to remember learning how to run as a matter of survival....
it was always a challenge but as you got bigger and better you felt better about yourself becuase you had EARNED something.....


so is it just me or are some of these people just whacked?

 

Bunch o wusses, what the name of the school?


Fairie tech?

 

I would guess that school dosn't believe in football or even kickball.

 

I read an interesting op-ed piece today (in the Chronicle of Higher Education) that referred to "snowflake students" -- meaning those kids coming out of primary and secondary schools who have been brought along to believe that they are each wonderfully, perfectly individual, like snowflakes.

Bolton, your comment about the principal in 10 years is the same as asking: what happens when all these snowflakes melt in the heat of the real world?

I think I want to retire and go fishing. HPH

 

These schools that give all kids a trophy so there are no "losers" are not teaching kids how to accept failure. Then 20 years later they get a job at the post office and get fired. They go home, get their gun and go back to work and blow people away.

 

I can only imagine what they would think about the mandatory, naked swimming we guys had to indulge during junior high school. Obviously these school administators never participated in military service.

 

We had that all the way through high school, was no big deal then to anyone.

 

Yes, they are

 

They ARE special and unique individuals -- just like everybody else.

 

I can only imagine the reaction I would have gotten from guys I played sports with if I told them not to touch me while playing football, basketball and hockey because I'm a snowflake. The showers we took after the game would have been interesting.