The fun police strike again
August 27th, 2008A school in Townsville has banned cartwheels and handstands because it has deemed them to be too dangerous. The school claims it is protecting the students from injury.
I agree with this decision! In fact all physical activity should be banned. From now on children should file out to the playground in an orderly manner. line up, sit down, eat their lunch, stand up, file back into the classroom and continue their lessons.
On second thought they should not be made to walk out to the playground because they could trip over and be injured. The teachers should wheel them out to the playground.
Then again, they should not go out to the playground at all. Anything could happen outdoors. Way too dangerous. Keep them inside.
Lunch is also potentially hazardous. They could choke! All their food should be placed in a blender and consumed through a straw.
Paper should be banned. Paper cuts are very painful.
Girls hair ties. Ban them. If one of them flew across the room, why, someone could lose an eye!
Who would have thought school could be such a dangerous place.
Ban schools!
I think I might buy some shares in a company that manufactures cotton wool.
The following is from an email thats been going around for years;
According to today’s regulators and educrats, those of us who
were kids in the 60’s, 70’s and early 80’s probably shouldn’t have survived, because:
Our baby cots were covered with brightly coloured lead-based paint which was promptly chewed and licked. We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, or latches on doors or cabinets and it was fine to play with pans.
When we rode our bikes, we wore no helmets, just thongs and fluorescent ‘clackers’ on our wheels.
As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or airbags riding in the passenger seat was a treat.
We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle and it tasted the same.
We ate chips, bread and butter pudding and drank fizzy pop with sugar in it, but we were never overweight because we were always outside playing.
We shared one drink with four friends, from one bottle or can and no-one actually died from this.
We would spend hours building go-carts out of scraps and then went top speed down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into stinging nettles a few times, we learned to solve the problem.
We would leave home in the morning and could play all day, as long as we were back before it got dark. No one was able to reach us and no one minded.
We did not have Play stations or X-Boxes, no video games at all. No 99 channels on TV, no videotape movies, no surround sound, no mobile phones, no personal computers, no Internet chat rooms. We had friends we went outside and found them.
We played elastics and street rounders, and sometimes that ball really hurt.
We fell out of trees, got cut and broke bones but there were no lawsuits.
We had full on fist fights but no prosecution followed from other parents.
We played knock-down-ginger and were afraid of the owners catching us.
We walked to friend’s homes.
We also, believe it or not, WALKED to school; we didn’t rely on mummy or daddy to drive us to school, which was just round the corner.
We made up games with sticks and tennis balls.
We rode bikes in packs of 7 and wore our coats by only the hood.
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke a law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law.This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers and
problem solvers and inventors, ever. The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all.
And you’re one of them. Congratulations!