And why are our kids so obese? Well, the public schools aren’t helping things out much.
And no, I’m not throwing a bone to the health Nazis sulking about in cafeterias. I’m going after these absurd “activists” who are trying to kick kicking out of schools.
Believe it or not, we actually have a school system in the US which thinks it’s better for kids not to exercise at all than to have to kick a ball or tag someone. Read on, but be warned, for, as my father says: “It’s more baloney than I can swallow.”
Elementary schools in Cheyenne, Wyo., and Spokane, Wash., banned tag at recess this year. Others, including a suburban Charleston, S.C., school, dumped contact sports such as soccer and touch football.
The bans were passed in the name of safety…It’s happening more,” [Donna Thompson of the National Program for Playground Safety] says. Educators worry about “kids running into one another” and getting hurt, she says.
In January, Freedom Elementary School in Cheyenne prohibited tag at recess because it “progresses easily into slapping and hitting and pushing instead of just touching,” Principal Cindy Farwell says.
Wow.
