Thank God that, despite these tumultuous times when up is down, white is black, wrong is right, there are still some educators in these United States with an amount of common sense, perspective and proportion.
And despite it being Teddy’s state, Massachusetts has clearly set itself to take the lead in terms of childrens’ safety:
An elementary school south of Boston has outlawed traditional recess chase games such as tag because they’re deemed too rough for kids.
Concerned educators at Willett Elementary School in Attleboro, Mass., are trying to quash unsupervised contact games on the playground out of fear that injured children could hold the school liable.
The risk of children running into each other prompted principal Gaylene Heppe to approve the tag ban, calling recess “a time when accidents can happen.”
Let us be thankful for principals such as Geylene Heppe, having the mandate from parents and her surrounding community to consider the overall welfare of the children who, left unto themselves, would proceed with such over-the-top games such as Tag itself, and possibly others as heinous as Whip The Line, Four Square, Tetherball and (gulp!) Hopscotch.
This would also be an overarching point to consider, luckily having been addressed in Fornicalia:
In 2002, a Santa Monica school banned unsupervised tag because officials felt it not only led to physical injuries, but could also create emotional injuries and self-esteem problems for the weaker or slower kids.
With luck, saving our childrens’ sensitive egos can only be a growing national trend.
THE FALLOUT FROM THIS TREND:
Now back to reality; after all, you didn’t think I’d bite on this tripe, did you?
What is next for American children? Shall we raise them in the humid loam of basements with dark lights like mushrooms? Then they’ll not come in contact with much of anything — but certainly they won’t be injured.
We’ve managed to eliminate Dodgeball. We’ve now eliminated Tag from many schools. There are even, if you can believe it, new schools extant and under construction which do NOT contain any playgrounds whatsoever. Parents are asking: when do you build the playgrounds? Answer from the contractor and the school district admin staff: never.
Are we insane? Have we lost our minds? Do we have any concept whatsoever as to what we are doing to our upcoming generations?
All in the name of that Money Monster called “liability” and, to a lesser degree, “esteem.”
But money will win over esteem any day.
And I submit this: it’s all about the vaginification and pussification of our current generation of little boys. Many educators, most of them women, will not be happy or satisfied until little boys become precisely like little girls: quiet, verbal, demure, obedient, inactive.
Which is why little boys are being medicated at a higher rate than at any other time in our history, by Ritalin and other drugs, why ADD is a “rampant epidemic.”
Little boys don’t need Ritalin; ADD isn’t an “epidemic.” We just have a staff of “educators,” mostly women, who don’t have the patience or the inclination to deal with the base nature of boys. And these “educators” will not be happy until little boys have been completely feminized.
Little boys NEED recess. They NEED contact and running and yelling and movement. It is the very nature of The Beast. It was my nature. It was the nature of anyone raised in the late 1950s and 1960s.
We were told by both our mothers and our fathers: shake it off. Stop that crying. Get up and walk it off. And we did.
Recess and games and active play are mandatory for little boys. I can remember coming back from recess, in elementary school, dripping with sweat. Educators then were smart enough to realize that little boys and, to an extent, little girls needed to vent all that pent-up anxious blood. We were kids; it’s what we all needed.
And now, at a time when Esteem rules all, inactive children are more obese than ever, PE classes have been eliminated, and the outlets for the venting of little boys have been all but eliminated — well, is it any wonder that little boys are finding themselves medicated in public schools more and more? And it won’t stop at this point; it will only become worse.
But even more than that, let’s do what I call the Logical Extension:
What kind of generations are we raising? How well are we preparing them for the Reality of not only these United States, but the realities of the World, a World Economy, and those assholes who would do us national harm simply because we are successful?
Whilst the Islamists become stronger, more determined, we are raising and encouraging generations to become weaker, more medicated, fatter, more inactive, less willing to engage in challenging thought: little whining, complaining male pussies.
I think this mother sums it all up:
Celeste D’Elia, a Willett Elementary School parent, said her son feels safer because of the new rule against tag. “I’ve witnessed enough near collisions,” she said.
Oooh. How bad! “Near collisions”??!!?
Give me a fucking break.
BZ
