School bans balls at recess...

• Fly4Fun

  

  This is just sad...
  
  pretty soon running and any physical movement will be banned as that is potentially dangerous as well!
  
  http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/09/living/parents-middle-school-bans-balls-recess/index.html?hpt=hp_t3
• dlazz

  http://www.ohiochatter.com/forum/showthread.php?42454-Playground-favorite%85&p=1515335&viewfull=1#post1515335
  
  SMH...
• gut

  Call it an overreaction or whatever, but it's still a direct result of parents taking every opportunity to sue anyone for anything. This country is in dire need of tort reform.
  
  Feel bad for parents that don't have an option to send their kid somewhere else.
• Tiernan

  Christ my elementary principal was 40 yrs ahead of his time!
• thavoice

  Chicken or the egg correlation? Who is to blame, lawyers or parents and who started it?
  
  I place more blame on the lawyers, personal injury, who hawk these people into filing rediculous suits from the beginning. After it really got started that you could get $$ for alot of shit like this, then parents started to seek out the lawyers
• Devils Advocate

  

  This has always been the case at girls Catholic schools.
• Tiernan

  Devils Advocate;1515538 wrote:This has always been the case at girls Catholic schools.

  You no longer have any credibility on this board, might as well move along DA.
• Heretic

  

  Tiernan;1515568 wrote:You no longer have any credibility on this board, might as well move along DA.

  Why? If you're still here, actually having credibility must not be a requirement.
• Tiernan

  Heretic;1515607 wrote:Why? If you're still here, actually having credibility must not be a requirement.

  I single handedly smoked the bastard out and that alone gives me huge street cred.
• sleeper

  

  Only in the NYC..
• friendfromlowry

  Tiernan;1515617 wrote:I single handedly smoked the bastard out and that alone gives me huge street cred.

  Single-hadedly[sic] smoking out a thread no one cares about doesn't negate the other 99% of the time you're an idiot. Hope this helps.
• Tiernan

  friendfromlowry;1515620 wrote:Single-hadedly[sic] smoking out a thread no one cares about doesn't negate the other 99% of the time you're an idiot. Hope this helps.

  Nope it doesnt
• Fly4Fun

  

  Tiernan;1515617 wrote:I single handedly smoked the bastard out and that alone gives me huge street cred.

  Out of curiosity, link to what ever it is you are talking about.
• ernest_t_bass

  

  Tiernan;1515617 wrote:I single handedly smoked the bastard out and that alone gives me huge street cred.

  Burden of proof is on you.
• Tiernan

  ernest_t_bass;1515769 wrote:Burden of proof is on you.

  
  yesterday's news ETB...try to keep up.
• GoPens

  

  ccrunner609;1515685 wrote:I hate our country for this shit

  Then leave.
• WebFire

  If you actually read the article, the school banned hard balls due to construction at the school which leaves limited space for the kids to play. They are afraid the that tight space makes it unsafe to play with a hard ball.
  
  That's really not that unreasonable. As long as they get the privilege back when the construction is over.
• #1DBag

  

  I predicted it was the East Coast before I read the article.