“We are regulating the fun out of normal childhood activity,” said Jan van Tol, father of a Kent Gardens sixth-grader. “In our effort to be so overprotective, we are not letting children be children.”

Add to this the fact that schools are taking competition out of competition, with “no score” games, and “everybody wins” sports.

On the other hand, the libs have no compunction whatsoever about hypersexualizing our children, which, IMHO, presents a greater short- and long term danger to them.

We need playground coaches as well as sports coaches.

You mean kids are not accompanied on the school yard by adult teachers anymore? We had teachers monitoring recess and if a game of tag or dodge ball got out of hand she’d stop it.
Schools are in a sorry shape. They look like prisons and have armed guards walking around called “resource officers when they are deputy sheriffs. Kids are treated like convicts and taught they came from animals so is it any wonder they are living up to our expectations?

It’s beyond neurotic.

This is just plain downright evil.

Some of the schoolyard games are abusive in nature. They originated in different times, when people weren’t as knowledgeable about what goes on in kids’ minds, and most likely when times were a lot tougher.

I think you are missing the point on how kids, especially boys are getting sissified. The result is that fewer and fewer boys are going to college or even graduating (over 50 percent drop out rate in the cities). They have been alienated by a school system and approach that thinks that male qualities are bad, and female qualities are good.

Some of the schoolyard games are abusive in nature. They originated in different times, when people weren’t as knowledgeable about what goes on in kids’ minds, and most likely when times were a lot tougher.

We are smarter now. I know enough about kids to say that they won’t hesitate to join in with any well-organized and supervised sport or game. Maybe it is time to replace tag and ‘monkey in the middle’ with activities that incorporate teamwork, sports practice and proper exercise.

In order to do that properly some good adult supervision needs to be in place – either paid for by the school (with budget issues) or on a volunteer basis by the parents. We need playground coaches as well as sports coaches.

Federal programs are intended to subvert the teaching of the fundamentals of reading, writing, and arithmetic, along with history, civics, and science. Since the 1960′s, the federal government, in league with the all-powerful teacher’s unions, has so transformed our schools that have been degraded to the point where American students score well below those in other nations in almost every area of knowledge.

The power to educate children must and should be returned to where it was before the tentacles of the federal government and the teacher’s unions turned our schools into indoctrination centers where environmentalism, global government, and sexual behavior are on the curriculum as the prime objective of a student’s education and they will belong to Big Brother long after they have left home because they have been brainwashed by the Government.

The history of the effort to model America’s schools after those of the former Soviet Union is largely unknown to Americans. This is why they need to take back their schools.

I thought the point of tag and other such games at recess were to expell all that frustration and energy. when I was in school, the teachers hated rain days, because that meant all the kids were restless in class. We used to run our butts off. Dodgeball (balls were made of foam- they weren’t basketballs!), racing competitions, tag, etc. were things we did every single day. some were better than others- I remember the really fat kid who couldn’t run- but he was one of the smartest kids in class.

this is what we get though, when people expect Government to be the mommy. If you expect that, then you can’t complain about Big Brother.

By Michelle Malkin • April 15, 2008 11:25 AM

Next up: Mandatory Thudguards for all.

Speaking of the Thudguards,Brad Stine, a Christian comedian, has an hilarious routine on how skewed we have gotten on protecting our kids in his Put A Helmet On DVD.

Think back to your childhood, when you not only rode without a seatbelt in a car trip but, if like me, rode lying up in the back window. Remember when the airbag deployment, when the brakes were put on fast was your mother’s or father’s arm flying around to hold you back? Remember when we rode bikes without helmets and survived to adulthood?

I laugh-out-loud all the way through it. My teenage daughter loves it and shares it with her friends.

On April 16th, 2008 at 8:03 am, terrig said:

Granite, I remember being a kid and at 6:00 a.m. the tv station would come on and the National Anthem would be played and when it would go off the air for the day it would be played again with some video of some servicemen taking down the flag and folding it. Could you imagine what the liberals would do if that was shown today?

I remember that, when the stations would sign off for the night. I haven’t seen that in a long time. But, I don’t want network television anymore either, plus a lot of the cable stations.

But, you are right. There are people out there that would have fits, if that were done today.

Fresh air and interaction with peers is entirely overrated.

/sarcasm off