Balls banned from school

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http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/canada/breakingnews/soccer-balls-booted-from-east-toronto-school-after-parent-injuried-133976508.html

TORONTO - Kids at an east-end Toronto school are being told to leave their soccer balls — and other hard balls — at home.
The principal of Earl Beatty Public School banned the balls this week after a parent recently suffered a concussion from being hit in the head with a soccer ball.
Students can bring sponge or other soft balls to play with, but soccer balls, footballs, baseballs and even tennis balls are not allowed for safety reasons.
But some parents say the ban is excessive and unfair to children who like to play outside.
A spokeswoman with Toronto District School Board says the ban is a temporary measure and the principal will consult with parents and staff to find a solution.
Anna Caputo says the school — which has almost 350 students from junior kindergarten to Grade 8 as well as a daycare for younger children — has a very small yard and there have been other injuries.
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OMFG

The highlight of our school day was playing red as*. Line people up against the wall and whip a tennis ball at them as hard as we could to see who would wimp out or which guy would cry when he got a shot in the crotch. I cry for the future.
 
Heard them talk about that on newstalk 1010 at lunch. Completely insane, but the principal thinks its the "rational" think to do in this situation. We need more like her in the school board... *sarcasm*

When I was in grade 6, in the winter they would mark the football field as the "snow ball" area, and you were free to have snow ball fights in that area, not outside. You would never see anything like that today, and to my knowledge, no one ever died. So many stupid things going on in our schools. A vet was turned away for a remembrance day service in Ottawa because they had a "no guns" policy, and he had a display rifle that was INACTIVE. Teachers, or at least the administration out of touch? Maybe just a little :sad7:
 
Absolutely ridiculous.
The parent that got hit in the head is showing the kids to be a whiney ***** about everything.

I've gotten hit hundreds of times in gym class and recess by basketballs, soccer balls, footballs, softballs, tennis balls, hockey balls as well as accidentally hit a bunch of other students as well with the same objects.
Guess what. We all survived and graduated.

My school replaced baseballs with softballs, but if someone at bat hit it towards you and you didn't catch it or duck, it would still hurt.
Lesson learned: pay attention!!
It's a lesson that can be applied to everything else in life.

It seems like schools aren't really teaching anything useful anymore.
 
What kid kicked a soccer ball so hard that it gave the parent a concussion. She sounds awesome!
 
killerkeith said:
That's what I was thinking! Get that kid into Liverpool's Academy now!
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Ya if you want to teach her how to dive and whinge and moan when calls don't go her way. ;)

Or you could get her into Young Gunners and teach her what real football's all about!
 
If i didnt grow up learning lessongs from bumbs, scrapes and bruises I probably would not have the self preservation instincts that keep me from cleaning my chain with the bike running and cutting my finger off. :rolleyes:
 
I heard about this on the news this morning. This is hilarious.

Thank God I'm no longer in school and don't have any kids. As for the rest of you...good luck! :p
 
Honestly, this is all that comes to mind of where things are headed:

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Even by the ridiculous standards of modern society, this is too far. This is basically robbing many kids of the one thing they look forward at recess, and I'm saying this as a kid that hated sports. Go to the yard of any other school - before school starts, at lunch, and after - and see what the kids are doing out there.

wonderings said:
Heard them talk about that on newstalk 1010 at lunch. Completely insane, but the principal thinks its the "rational" think to do in this situation. We need more like her in the school board... *sarcasm*

When I was in grade 6, in the winter they would mark the football field as the "snow ball" area, and you were free to have snow ball fights in that area, not outside. You would never see anything like that today, and to my knowledge, no one ever died. So many stupid things going on in our schools. A vet was turned away for a remembrance day service in Ottawa because they had a "no guns" policy, and he had a display rifle that was INACTIVE. Teachers, or at least the administration out of touch? Maybe just a little :sad7:
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I remember in high school our history teacher actually firing blanks inside the building, to demonstrate WW1 battle rifles. I loved that guy.
 
my favourite day was when the janitor would be doing something on the roof and he would throw down all the tennis balls, baseballs, soccer balls, you name it, back to the ground. He was like a Santa Clause in April.
 
Christ on a stick, what's next? Banning the Lord's Prayer and the singing of the national anthem in the mornings?

Oh, wait...
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