Toronto school bans balls

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A Toronto school has banned all hard balls while children are on school property. A letter issued from the administration at Earl Beatty Jr. and Sr. Public School states that kids can’t bring or play with any kind of hard ball - i.e. soccer balls, footballs, volleyballs or tennis balls. "Any balls brought will be confiscated and may be retrieved by parents from the office. The only kind of ball allowed will be nerf balls or sponge balls."

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/the-hot-button/safe-or-extreme-toronto-school-bans-hard-balls/article2237973/

The nanny state strikes again. Next up, Toronto school bans children from playing?

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[JohnRich 4]

What about bats? You could be hitting nerf balls with a wooden bat and knock some poor kid out cold! How about jungle gyms? Those twisted metal structures are a broken arm waiting to happen. Then there's "tag", with all that running and fast turns, guaranteed to make someone fall down and skin a knee. Someone please save the children!

[Trafficdiver 8]

This world has become to dangerous for humans. We should abort every child to shield them from the possibility of a black eye or a jammed finger.

[Skyrad 0]

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What about bats? You could be hitting nerf balls with a wooden bat and knock some poor kid out cold! How about jungle gyms? Those twisted metal structures are a broken arm waiting to happen. Then there's "tag", with all that running and fast turns, guaranteed to make someone fall down and skin a knee. Someone please save the children!

Do catch up John, they have to wear elbow and knee pads and goggles in the play ground these days

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[JohnRich 4]

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What about bats? You could be hitting nerf balls with a wooden bat and knock some poor kid out cold! How about jungle gyms? Those twisted metal structures are a broken arm waiting to happen. Then there's "tag", with all that running and fast turns, guaranteed to make someone fall down and skin a knee. Someone please save the children!

Do catch up John, they have to wear elbow and knee pads and goggles in the play ground these days

Oh my. Do they still play dodge-ball, where you INTENTIONALLY try to hit someone else with a ball? Oh the horror!

What about all those sharp pencils inside the classrooms? When I was in school, they even had small mechanical devices mounted on the wall called "sharpeners", whereby the kids were actually encouraged to hone their pencils to a razor's edge, making them ideal stabbing weapons. It's a miracle that they don't all put each other's eyes out.

[wmw999 2,589]

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When I was in school, they even had small mechanical devices mounted on the wall called "sharpeners"

And when I was a kid, some had sharpeners, but many had sharpeners that were really just razor blades imbedded into a cardboard holder so that you could get incredibly sharp points.

Now that was cool

Wendy P.

There is nothing more dangerous than breaking a basic safety rule and getting away with it. It removes fear of the consequences and builds false confidence. (tbrown)

[JohnRich 4]

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when I was a kid, some had sharpeners, but many had sharpeners that were really just razor blades imbedded into a cardboard holder

You mean, they allowed razor weapons in school? Good gosh! You should have been sent to reform school as a hoodlum! You were a danger to public safety!

[kallend 2,150]

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When I was in school, they even had small mechanical devices mounted on the wall called "sharpeners"

And when I was a kid, some had sharpeners, but many had sharpeners that were really just razor blades imbedded into a cardboard holder so that you could get incredibly sharp points.

Now that was cool

Wendy P.

Tame stuff. We had concentrated sulfuric acid on the student benches in the chem labs, and fuming nitric acid in the fume hoods.

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[wmw999 2,589]

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Tame stuff. We had concentrated sulfuric acid on the student benches in the chem labs, and fuming nitric acid in the fume hoods.

We had one guy who would mix the leftover chemicals from each day's experiment in a big beaker and put it in his chem lab locker.

When the carbon tet was in there is made a cool 2-tone lava lamp looking thing, but a couple of days later it outgassed something bright yellow (probably sulfur) that got the teacher's attention, and that particular hobby was terminated.

Wendy P.

There is nothing more dangerous than breaking a basic safety rule and getting away with it. It removes fear of the consequences and builds false confidence. (tbrown)

[skydiver30960 0]

Stories like this are valuable to me in that they reinforce my already absolute resolve to never, ever, have kids.

Elvisio "excuse me, which way is this handbasket headed?" Rodriguez

[masterrig 1]

How is a kid supposed to be a kid? Adults are taking all that away from them. What's next for kids... 'bubbles'? All this, coming from a place that brought the world 'hockey'? It's all, just nuts.


Chuck

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How is a kid supposed to be a kid? Adults are taking all that away from them. What's next for kids... 'bubbles'? All this, coming from a place that brought the world 'hockey'? It's all, just nuts.


Chuck

Wrap the little darlings in cotton wool - wouldn't want them scrapping their knees or losing a race .....

....... They'll all stay alive longer and live for NEVER.

WTF sort of parents are out there these days?

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[masterrig 1]

Some mutant off-spring of Dr. Spock followers. Hell, I don't know. I guess, parents would rather have their children staring at a computer screen, eating 'cheezy poofs' all day long. Carpal tunnel syndrome is far better than exploring fields and creeks and playing sand lot baseball or God forbid... rugby!


Chuck

[GeorgiaDon 380]

So, did you intend the double meaning of your thread title?

In 7th grade my home-room teacher had an India rubber ball (those suckers were hard!) that he's throw at you if he saw you talking after the bell rang to start class. Sometimes he'd miss, and random kids would get it in the back of the head as the think ricocheted off the back wall. Gotta love them Catholic schools! "You think that hurt, just wait until you get to Hell!"

Don

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[firemedic 7]

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When I was in school, they even had small mechanical devices mounted on the wall called "sharpeners"

And when I was a kid, some had sharpeners, but many had sharpeners that were really just razor blades imbedded into a cardboard holder so that you could get incredibly sharp points.

Now that was cool

Wendy P.

HAA, I remember those. When I was in high school they offered archery as part of PE too.

[masterrig 1]

That reminds me of when I was in 8th. grade. I had a history teacher who was a damned good teacher and demanded our full attention. About half way through class, one of the guys, seated in about the center of the class, had his head resting on his folded arms and snoring like a chain-saw. Mr. Wilson saw this and very quietly motioned for the kids between him and sleeping beauty to get-down. They did and the teacher slung a history book, binding first at the snoring student's head. The book struck it's mark and 'Sparky' came-up swinging. Mr. Wilson, calmly but firmly told him to wake-up, sit-up straight and pay attention! He had all of our attention for the rest of the year!

If, a teacher did that today... the teacher would probably be in a penitentiary somewhere.


Chuck

[Kennedy 0]

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hard ball - i.e. soccer balls, footballs, volleyballs or tennis balls.

Really? Those are actually soft balls. At least baseballs, hard rubber balls, and the like are relatively hard. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over.

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[DrewEckhardt 0]

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A Toronto school has banned all hard balls while children are on school property. A letter issued from the administration at Earl Beatty Jr. and Sr. Public School states that kids cant bring or play with any kind of hard ball - i.e. soccer balls, footballs, volleyballs or tennis balls. "Any balls brought will be confiscated and may be retrieved by parents from the office. The only kind of ball allowed will be nerf balls or sponge balls."

It's Canada, eh?

Kids should be playing hockey and pucks aren't banned.

[rushmc 23]

Hell
whats the big deal?

Oprah has been pushing this for years in the US

and not in schools

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if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
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