Foo - wow

In upstate New York some family is taking it up to a court and jury as to whether Dodgeball should be played in schools. I guess their child fell and hurt her elbow and now they want dodgeball removed. Thank goodness I never had to ride my bike in P.E. or else with all those time I ate it....

Not that any of this matters, just reading this forum is the closest thing I have to human interaction while on this 24 hour phone watch. You other military types know what I am talking about.
I'm so lonely, at least I had one of those semi-pie deals with lunch.

I grew up in Switzerland and they actually make you take a bike test in school.

Sorry, but any bets on how long until this ends up in foo?

I wish they had bike riding in PE. I might have passed.

this can be saved, after all the bikes in PE were fixed gears, at least in kindergarten they were

no dodge ball playing in nj elemetary schools... thats been the rule fo a few years now

i can't believe they still let kids play dodgeball. remember the feel of that textured red ball smacking you in the face? yeah, it felt good to nail the other kids, but still...

Screw bike polo.....how about fixed dodgeball. Now THAT is the sport of kings.

I like that one auk...interesting.
Rancid - hang in there. We all pulled that schyte detail at least once before.

y'all may not believe this, but when i was in high school i was able to satisfy the state requirements of 1/4 credit in physical education by taking a bicycle class, in which we basically talked about bikes, then rode them somewhere to smoke pot. thems were the days...

Libs....typical....wusses.....

why are you in the military?

Libs....typical....wusses.....

couldn't resist the urge, huh?

back to the subject: I loved dodgeball in elementary and middle school! No one wanted to play once we got to high school though.

why are you in the military?

Because I went out, had a long night drinking and the next day...BAM!!!! I woke up on a ship in the middle of the pacific in uniform. I was shanghai'ed I tell ya!!!

Or I just wanted some college money, but I like the first story more

Rancid,

Where did you see the article? Dodgeball has been illegal in NYS for a while. A lot of PE teachers get around the law by calling it Spartan Ball or "whatever your school's team name is" ball. When I was a kid we had "killer dodgeball", no dividing line. Only rule was no hitting in the face. A facial cost you twenty pushups. Such a small price to pay. I'll bet there are kids from that class that still have nightmares today, 30 years later...

it was on the 5 minutes of CNN I saw at lunch on CROSSFIRE with e ragin cajun and the guy in the silly bow tie

i always enjoyed dodgeball. my girlfriend doesn't think it's a good thing for schools to have kids do. i tell her that i think she thinks that because she sucked at it.

http://news.google.com/news?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&q=dodgeball

Wouldn't this money be better spent banning Artest FROM life...

http://rds.yahoo.com/S=53720272/K=dodgeball/v=2/SID=e/l=NSR/R=1/SIG=11mv096ma/*-http%3A//www.wnbc.com/education/3936154/detail.html

thats the one

Man, when I was in elementary school our principle used to play with us and he was a MEAN SOB. I remember one day he nailed me right in the gut, knocked me backwards off the court, I rolled backwards down the steep landscaped enbankment, and landed at the bottom trying for the life of me to breathe. I kid you not when I say that I recall that my vision went gray. Did I mention "mean"?

No dodgeball, why because it picks on the weak, thats what life is though. Everyday that you wake up you are the chubby kid in the circle and life is that 6th grader that stayed back 4 times, drove a chevy nova to school, waiting to pegs you in the face with a red rubber ball.

I think we should apply dodgeball in real life, like to fire people. You'd be sitting in your office your boss comes in and just whacks you in the face with a big red rubber ball. "Ah what the *&^& was that?" "Im sorry Bill we're times are tough and we need to let a few people go."

Thats how I feel anyway.
Scott

I think we should apply dodgeball in real life, like to fire people. You'd be sitting in your office your boss comes in and just whacks you in the face with a big red rubber ball. "Ah what the *&^& was that?" "Im sorry Bill we're times are tough and we need to let a few people go."


If you dodge it, do you get a promotion?

If you dodge it, do you get a promotion?


And if you catch it is your boss fired instead?

DB was one of the main reasons I showed up for school everyday from 1st through 6th grade ;)

Seriously though, DB rocked... nothing quite like the feeling of just clocking someone in the face with that semi-deflated, textured sphere of flying fury.

Dodgeball is banned at my school too. Kinda sucks, I remember we used to play dodgeball in 4th and 5th grade. That rocked so much, especially since I was fast enough to *almost* always dodge the ball.

too bad it's banned, getting smacked in the face by a large red cherry ball should be part of everybody's childhood memory:D

Just use cricket balls like we do in Australia. Bugger the protective gear. Why do you think we're all daft. Too many hits to the head.

Crikey, dats a bit a awwight aint it?

Ah brandy with the cricket ball, how fun is that. I remember being smashed right in the spine.
*Memories*

Cricket balls can leave a lasting impression
I remember I was playing a match for my school and was up against a spin bowler. I misjudged the angle of the spin and the thing went cracking into my nuts. No cup either that day since it wasn't a formal match with full kit.
Kids are way too padded nowdays and are missing out on games of dodgeball with tennis balls and all out rugby in the pouring rain and snow.

Dodgeball is not an especially dangerous game. Perhaps we should outfit our kids in foam rubber suits when they must leave the house. It is dangerous out there you know.

Schools and the routes to schools are fraught with hazards: Wet floors, stairways, traffic, crowded disease ridden classrooms, etc. I think masks and helmets should be a requirement. In fact I think if you send a small child out in the world without such basic safety gear; this borders on neglect. You should have the State investigating your parenting techniques and evaluating them for fitness.

Dan

I've been hearing about DB being banned from schools. Jeez, that was one of the best memories I have of elementary school! Talk about working on your reflexes and coordination! Kids are too soft these days. Just yesterday our local paper (San Jose Mercury News) had a front page article about how the failure rate of kids physical fitness tests are at 75%. And even the more affluent schools still have a failure rate of over 50% (this is in San Jose). One P.E. teacher decided to make his students run for 10 minutes every Friday. They didn't have to reach a certain distance or anything, just try as hard as they can for 10 minutes. Well, not only did the kids whine, but the parents complained that it's too hard on their kids! These parents are probably the same ones who hated DB when they were kids.

As much as I liked dodge ball, it is probably good they got rid of it. I would lump it along with baseball, touch football and archery as useless sports that don't give kids a decent workout.

Kids should be running their asses off in gym class, gymnastics, swimming, soccer, if they aren't sweating, whats the use?

Schools and the routes to schools are fraught with hazards: Wet floors, stairways, traffic, crowded disease ridden classrooms, etc. I think masks and helmets should be a requirement. In fact I think if you send a small child out in the world without such basic safety gear; this borders on neglect. You should have the State investigating your parenting techniques and evaluating them for fitness.

Dan

you forgot one -- other kids

We were tough in my school. When they outlawed dodgeball we just played "baseball tag"

Well, we still have dodgeball. It's just played under the name "teamball" and we use volleyballs instead of cherry balls. Occasionally we can sneak a soccer ball into the game :p

Alright, I'm a summer camp counselor and Site Director at an afterschool camp at a upscale private school and I must say that dodgeball is one of the greatest games ever invented, to take it out of our educational system would be a travesty to mankind, its so fun!

There are all sorts of variations and fun ways to play it. Then again we don't use those rubber jelly balls, we use soft nerf balls, but they can still hurt. I love pegging that annoying kid in my group right in the head...Take that!

But on a serious note, part of being a kid is skinning your knees and getting hurt a bit. I'm sick of parents trying to change that. Yes we want our children safe, but we also don't want to stick them in plastic bubbles filled with styrofoam popcorn, and bubble wrap. Yeesh.

Maybe we should equip kids with airbags.

I grew up in Switzerland and they actually make you take a bike test in school.
I grew up in Connecticut and they did the same thing. Every year we took a test and got a licence up till like 5th grade or something. I don't think it was law though.

Hey...Military...Honolulu, HI...I bet you know the very hospital I was born in. The Pink Palace. Cool!! My dad was military and we moved constantly. I don't remember anything about my time there, but my mom said the locals called me fire baby cuz of my red hair. And she said all I ate was poi!

Enjoy your time there, and hopefully you find us interesting enough company! We are a facinating cross section of Americana and beyond.

I went to a forgiving grade school. If a kid (or parent) didn't like the PE curriculum, s/he had to create his/her own. One kid spent an entire year learning how to break dance.

My high school was catholic, we didn’t have PE (unless you count doing ‘stand-ups’ during mass).

Sick. This country is teaching their youth to grow up to be a bunch of *******. When I was in gradeschool they gave out U's instead of F's because they thought that an F on someone's report card was too harsh. U stood for Unsatisfactory. The heck with that. We are going to have kids growing up who are going to get a harsh taste of reality when they realize that the smarter, stronger and better looking are going to succeed unless they work harder. This sheltering of youth has to stop. I was always the smaller, skinny kid who got his ass kicked in Dodgeball and other team sports. Didn't put me down, it just taught me that my talents were elsewhere and I needed to work harder. Our coddled yewts is going to be the downfall of this country. *steps off soapbox*

I went to a forgiving grade school. If a kid (or parent) didn't like the PE curriculum, s/he had to create his/her own. One kid spent an entire year learning how to break dance.

My high school was catholic, we didn’t have PE (unless you count doing ‘stand-ups’ during mass).


Lest we forget the 'Deep Knee Bends' too.

Tho' I must admit that the half time snack was my favorite. Not filling but it held me over till I got home.

Tho' I must admit that the half time snack was my favorite. Not filling but it held me over till I got home.

Somewhat related... back in HS I had a good friend who was an altar boy. Almost every week he would steal a bottle of wine or two from the church basement, we used to go downtown and drink it in the park. Strong stuff, as its made to be diluted with water.
Another friend snacked on a big bag of purloined hosts with some of his pals.

i think they should have different wieght classes for dodge ball.. i have an unpleasant memory of a large girl fallin on my leg....


of course... this is also the reason we should have DB... so we don't have large people squishing us (jet's, the hall, the bus, etc...)

So we should have dodgeball so we know how to dodge falling fat people?:D


I would like to mention that my teachers are quite open-minded about their opinions on our work. If they don't like what we turn in or don't think that we spent enough time on our projects they WILL tell us. Usually not in a polite way.

In my high school in the early '60 the coaches, on rainy days, would subject us to "Slaughter Ball" in the gym, using 8 to 10 basketballs. Once, being the last one standing I was clobbered by 6 basketballs at once. That gave me a "physical education"!

Pshht here at our schol the teachers don't give a crap of how badly you're hurt. If your legs are broken, good luck getting to the office. Teachers are like "you're gonna be fine, keep playing".

"I always got picked first in dodgeball...I was the ball" ~Mike Wasowski

I suppose maybe they shouldn't be allowed to play dodgeball with basketballs, footballs, or baseballs, but to eliminate it entirely is just stupid. If you can't take the smack from the soft red rubber ball, either don't let it hit you in the face or don't play. There's always tetherball or monkeybars.