[Gunnair]

Zipperfish Zipperfish:

Bring on the nanny state.

What do you mean bring on?

It's already here. The kids protest was priceless and the principle was left a stuttering schmuck who will hopefully be forced to fall back from her stupidity.

[eureka]

The litigious society is the problem and it is there that we should look to before blaming teachers and principals.

Already some schools have removed playground equipment for "safety" reasons and I don't think any teacher wants that to happen.

[OnTheIce]

eureka eureka:

The litigious society is the problem and it is there that we should look to before blaming teachers and principals.

Already some schools have removed playground equipment for "safety" reasons and I don't think any teacher wants that to happen.

I think we should make schools out of rubber. Bricks are too hard.

[Gunnair]

eureka eureka:

The litigious society is the problem and it is there that we should look to before blaming teachers and principals.

Already some schools have removed playground equipment for "safety" reasons and I don't think any teacher wants that to happen.

Possibly, though if that were the case, we'd likely see far more schools doing this.

I think this is just a principle making a knee jerk decision.

[OnTheIce]

Gunnair Gunnair:

eureka eureka:

The litigious society is the problem and it is there that we should look to before blaming teachers and principals.

Already some schools have removed playground equipment for "safety" reasons and I don't think any teacher wants that to happen.

Possibly, though if that were the case, we'd likely see far more schools doing this.

I think this is just a principle making a knee jerk decision.

No, we don't.

Playgrounds have all types of risk, that's part of growing up. Learning to manage risk and to know your limits.

Kids get hurt. Kids fall. Sometimes there's even broken glass on the ground. GASP!

[2Cdo]

I don't even know where to begin with this.

[Gunnair]

OnTheIce OnTheIce:

Gunnair Gunnair:

eureka eureka:

The litigious society is the problem and it is there that we should look to before blaming teachers and principals.

Already some schools have removed playground equipment for "safety" reasons and I don't think any teacher wants that to happen.

Possibly, though if that were the case, we'd likely see far more schools doing this.

I think this is just a principle making a knee jerk decision.

No, we don't.

Playgrounds have all types of risk, that's part of growing up. Learning to manage risk and to know your limits.

Kids get hurt. Kids fall. Sometimes there's even broken glass on the ground. GASP!

I think you misread what I wrote. Anyway, as I said, this is so far a one of, so it's not so much a social issue as an issue with an individual principal.

[Lemmy]

I've spent a lot of time researching the public school system in Ontario. Over those years I've drawn many conclusions. One is that, of all the spending Ontarians make on education, the single most wasteful use of tax dollars is the employment of school principals. It's not like they're simply useless. They're worse. They're actually a net detriment to the system.

[eureka]

In general I agree, lemmy. Many principals now were poor teachers. But the cause of that is the changes made by Harris that, amongst other things, removed principals from the Union and separated them from the teaching fraternity.

However, principals now have onerous work loads and are under great pressure. In my son-in-law's Board there are currently three principals on stress leave.

[Public_Domain]

[Nuggie77]

Sounds to me like the playground supervisors actually have to supervise the playground!!! Apparently the same issue happened in St. Catherines last year and the kids successfully petitioned to have it over turned. Hope the same happens in this case.

[Heycronie]

Kind of contradictory. Schools want kids to be more active yet take away an activity that makes them more....active.

[PJB]

What is happening to us. Kids cannot do anything anymore because the parents are terrified. We used to go out after dark, we used to play road hockey, we used to play tackle football in the winter with a frozen football. I feel sorry for kids nowadays. We are raising a culture of scared little wimps.

[ShepherdsDog]

hell we used to go horseback riding and go on camping trips up into the Duck and Riding Mountains When I was in Grade 8, six of us rode went on a trail ride from just south of Dauphin to Childs Lake in Duck Mountain Provincial Park. We were gone for over a week. We used to go into Riding Mountain all of the time for weekends. In June and September(before I was old enough to drive) some of us would bike to school rather than ride the bus. It was 10 miles, half of which was on back roads where we occasionally came across bears

[Guy_Fawkes]

I remember having target shoot lessons when I was in junior high, one day was spend in the gym with us getting familiar with the .22 rifles. The next day we went to the range and fired at paper targets.