Long Island Middle School Bans Footballs, Other Recreational Items

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Wimp KidFrom CBSNewYork.com:

Concerns About Injuries Prompted Ban, Port Washington Officials Say

PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) — Worries about injuries at a Long Island school have led to a surprising ban.

As CBS 2’s Jennifer McLogan reported Monday, officials at Weber Middle School in Port Washington are worried that students are getting hurt during recess. Thus, they have instituted a ban on footballs, baseballs, lacrosse balls, or anything that might hurt someone on school grounds.

I swear, ladies and gentlemen, it’s another new abrogation every day, dealt by Leftists, sworn to continue the pussification of our country.  I can think of no other word.  An attempt to turn our boys into little girls, and anything physical into something evil.

But the students will have no such option anymore. They were just informed that during recess, football is out and Nerf ball is in. Hard soccer balls have been banned, along with baseballs and lacrosse balls, rough games of tag, or cartwheels unless supervised by a coach.

And there you go.  Football, out.  Tag, out.  Lacrosse, out.  Baseballs, out.  And God forbid any little girl or boy should do an UNSUPERVISED cartwheel — may they rot in public school festering hell.

But Port Washington schools Supt. Kathleen Maloney said the change in policy is warranted due to a rash of playground injuries.

Oh my God, how terrible.  Playground injuries.  Scraped knees.  Bruised elbows.  Perhaps even the occasional broken bone.  HEINOUS!  UNACCEPTABLE!

Without helmets and pads, children are much more susceptible to getting hurt, experts said.

Excellent point.  Children should wear helmets, chest plates, hockey gloves, football knee pads and motocross back braces if they wish to play tag.  They could fall.  Gravity could occur.

Long Island Jewish Medical Center emergency room director Dr. Salvatore Pardo said he has been seeing “head injuries, bumps, scrapes; worried about concussions.”

Oh my God.  A bump!  Stop the presses!  School children get BUMPS!  Even worse: school children using recreational equipment may be subject to SCRAPES!

All this whilst little Mohammad in Syria, sodomized by strangers, living off scraps from the Muslim Brotherhood, forced into a Madrasa, taught how to fire an AK-47, is twice as tough — at age 11 — as most current US Army soldiers.  And as US soldiers already know in the Middle East about Muslim men: women are for procreation, men and boys are for pleasure.

I am so, so glad I never had children.  How do parents dare to expose their children to any public school venue at all, these days, if they want a fit, sane, intelligent, creative and sound-thinking bit of progeny?

BZ

 

 

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17 thoughts on “Long Island Middle School Bans Footballs, Other Recreational Items”

  1. I wear a full football uniform, pads and all wherever I go and I never take the helmet off even in a restaurant as a waiter may drop a plate on my head. You can never be too safe. If you arrest me I will demand a padded cell.

    • You make an excellent point.

      But, let’s make it easier still.

      In lieu of donning all that crap, why don’t we just stay in our apartments (houses having been outlawed due to their sprawl and inefficiencies) and never venture out? Ever?

      BZ

  2. Thankful my grandkids are on a military post that is still horrible old fashion. Why, the kids ride their bikes around unsupervised, get in fist fights, and are expected to suck it up when they get scrapes and bruises. Worse, the kids go out shooting real firearms with their parents on weekends!

      • Stress. Yes indeed. Think of all the stress experienced by all the children who were exposed to, for example, WW2. Air raids, bombings, dead bodies both human and animal. Artillery fire, rifle fire, the list goes on. Their homes and parents destroyed. Their entire way of life never to be the same. And they never had any ‘counselling’ to ‘help them cope’. Yet, apparently, they turned out alright. Amazing.
        Overprotect kids now and what kind of adults will result. I think we know the answer to that.

        Side note: I see village playgrounds here in Hungary with jungle gym sets and climbing ropes. And horrors, children climbing and playing…often even… unsupervised! Horrors!

  5. These poor kids are not going to have any cool scars or the stories that go with them. Just like in the movie, “The Replacements”…Chicks dig scars.

    In the school’s defense, they are sick and tired of being sued everytime little Johnny (or Joanie) gets a boo boo or is offended by harsh words. So, the hell with it, save the cost of running those programs, hiring coaches, maintaining football and track fields, basketball courts, etc. and no longer about being sued.

    And as much as I would love to blame the lawyers, I can’t. The lawyers don’t hand out ridiculous financial awards, juries do…juries made up of parents who think money is free and little Johnny and his parents should get rich because their little precious little snowflake tripped over his own shoelace running to the cafeteria or was inappropriately nudged playing nerf ball and got a bruisy woozy.

    The schools are not doing this to be jerks (or maybe they are), but are more than likely responding to a world gone insane. Stop the nonsense lawsuits, the out of control jury verdicts. Promote COMPETITION and Sports, let kids play cowboys and indians (or is it cow persons and native Americans…only the native Americans win and don’t allow the evil white man to oppress them and steal their lands. Or maybe cops and robbers, or is it oppressive brutal armed thugs and alleged innocent person who was framed using the fruit of the poisonous tree.

    All of this happened after John Wayne and Steve McQueen died. They showed us what men were, and without their influence, America has become soft and lazy and resentful of competition and manly sports.

    Gosh, I am not that old and I already sound like my grandfather. Now I’m all pissed. I’m going to take my prius to starbucks to order a double mocha latte with soy and artifical lowfat sweetner while I read my GC magazine on the latest fashions and makeup tips for men while I try to cope and calm down. If that doesn’t work, I may have to double up on my therapy this week. Now where are my happy pills.

  8. Maybe the school can cite this as inspiration for its ban:

    USPS may destroy ‘unsafe’ stamps: http://news.yahoo.com/usps-to-destroy–unsafe–stamps-205228348.html

    Run! Jump! Leap! It all seems pretty innocent, but the U.S. Postal Service is faced with a decision to destroy its series of “Just Move” stamps because of safety concerns, according to Linns Stamp News, and we’re not talking about a paper cut on your tongue.

    The colorful cartoon stamps, based on Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move initiative, were intended to encourage an active lifestyle and raise awareness about physical activity. But the images on some of the stamps are not kosher with the President’s Council on Fitness, Sports & Nutrition, according to the stamps designer, Eli Noyes, who told Linns, “Apparently the President’s Council [on Fitness, Sports and Nutrition] and the Let’s Move people saw them and had issues with them.”

    The stamps in question: a skateboarder sans kneepads, a swimmer doing a cannonball, and a kid doing a headstand without a helmet, and because of these issues, it’s likely you won’t ever get to send your mail with these particular adhesives.
    ————-

    Honestly now. Really?
    I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.
    Maybe though there should be some sort of award for this. It strives to waste taxpayers’ money in the midst of a government ‘shutdown’ while it purports to be protecting children from grievous bodily harm while encouraging them to engage in a more active lifestyle.

    Stamps. Oh my goodness. Lunacy run amok.

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