Whats next!!

Leo

Steve,

Having been born in the early 50's and growing up in a small town, did we grow up together?
You called right on the money.

Leo

David Sutton_6

Wow

Now i want all you good little robots to just stand there and dont move or breath for we might get sued if johnny gets a cold or if you bruise his skin...

I just dont know what happed to personal responceabilty


now everyone one back in your personal glass cube and please becareful not to trip on the way.
.....this is a recording ....because we have no teachers , they are to afaid to get sued to come to work.......thank you!! love the system....





Not It! Mass. Elementary School Bans Tag
By Associated Press
Wed Oct 18, 10:00 AM

ATTLEBORO, Mass. - Tag, you're out! Officials at an elementary school south of Boston have banned kids from playing tag, touch football and any other unsupervised chase game during recess for fear they'll get hurt and hold the school liable.

Recess is "a time when accidents can happen," said Willett Elementary School Principal Gaylene Heppe, who approved the ban.

While there is no districtwide ban on contact sports during recess, local rules have been cropping up. Several school administrators around Attleboro, a city of about 45,000 residents, took aim at dodgeball a few years ago, saying it was exclusionary and dangerous.

Elementary schools in Cheyenne, Wyo., and Spokane, Wash., also recently banned tag during recess. A suburban Charleston, S.C., school outlawed all unsupervised contact sports.

"I think that it's unfortunate that kids' lives are micromanaged and there are social skills they'll never develop on their own," said Debbie Laferriere, who has two children at Willett, about 40 miles south of Boston. "Playing tag is just part of being a kid."

Another Willett parent, Celeste D'Elia, said her son feels safer because of the rule. "I've witnessed enough near collisions," she said.

jp_2

libral wackos!!!!

Steamhead (in transit)

In the case of

"unsupervised" contact sports, I agree. Someone should be watching these kids while they play. That's how it was done when I was in school- there was always a teacher or other responsible adult there.

"Steamhead"

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David Sutton_6

i agree frank !

But to just stop it, I teach kids and play is work to a child, this is where they learn to interact and to develop skills to learn to deal with one another,kids need games to teach them how to be sociel and to develop good sportsmenship loosing at a game teaches more than winning


But supervision is a MUST!! but bugget cuts cost cutting has taken that away


David

lchmb

amazing

Kinda makes you wonder how any of us survived will all those nasty sport's we used to play when we were kids...Now if you'll excuse me I have to go wrap my boy's in padding so they don't get any bruises..:o

S Ebels

For those of us born in the 30's through the 70's

DanHolohan

For your consideration

Liability

Mark Hunt

My favorite


is the warning on clothing irons telling folks NOT to iron their clothes WHILE they are wearing them.

Still, this is all getting to be ridiculous.

Mark H

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Leo

Rage

In this day of the law suit kids are taught to find their kinder and gentler side. No contact games, no punching out the bully. Just be nice. So all the rage builds and builds, the kid becomes an adult gets the finger on the highway and goes and gets a gun and shoots the guy. When I was a kid you kept your mouth shut or got popped. If you got picked on you popped the guy. It didn't happen often and we weren't a bunch of rough necks but arguments were settled usually on the play ground. If you went home and complained you got grounded for fighting. Granted some change is good but this "social engineering" has gotten out of hand just like the law suits.

Leo

Paul Pollets

Auto Safety Aside

The first 80 pages, (that's right 80 pages!!)in my car's manual (Audi)are how to install baby car seats. After you learn how to put the baby seat in, then you can learn how to work the car.

Do construction folks still light cigarettes off an oxy-acetylene torch flame?

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Wayco Wayne_2

The worlds a

dangerous place. Youre going to have to learn to deal with it on it own terms some day. The schools are seeing the idiots and their lawyers coming, and are rounding the wagons. 2 years ago my son was being teased in the showers by a mean kid in gym class. He's overweight and senstive about it. He had enough and punched the guy out. Surprised the heck out of the taunter. We did not agree with his solution but understood where he was coming from. We expected him to get suspended and he did, but.... then the Kid's mother called the police and pressed charges of assault on my son. I was astonished. Fights happen in school and the schools deal with it, but more and more there are the people that have to take things too far. He ended up having to do community service as his sentence and has controlled his anger ever since, but I've been seeing these overly intent people more and more, and so have the schools. It's just a matter of time before someone sues aver a game of tag gone horribly wrong. WW

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S Ebels

To all the kids that survived

To all the kids that survived being born and raised during the 30's through the 60's;

First, we survived being born to mothers who maybe smoked and/or drank while they were pregnant. They took aspirin, ate blue cheese, tuna from a can, drank Coke and didn't get tested for diabetes.

Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in cribs covered with bright colored lead based paint. As infants we would ride in cars with no car seats, booster seats, seat belts or air bags, ON OUR PARENTS LAPS!

We had no childproof lids on medicine, childlocks on doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes we had no helmets, not to mention the risks we took hitchhiking.

Riding in the back of an open pickup on a warm summer day was always a special treat.

We drank water from a garden hose and NOT from a bottle that costs $1.89.

We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle, and no one actually died from this.

We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and topped it off with Koolaid made with real sugar, but we weren't overweight because..(pause for effect here).......we were always playing outside!

We would leave home in the morning, play somewhere all day, and as long as we were back home before dark it was OK. The frightening part was, no one was able to reach us all day long because there were no cell phones.

We would spend hours building our go carts out of whatever we could scrouge up and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes and trees a few times we learned to solve the problem.

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, or video games at all, no 150 channels on cable, no movies or DVD's, no CD's, Mp-3's, personal computers, Al Gore hadn't invented the Internet yet, or chat rooms................ But we had friends and we went outside and found them.

We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth, got into fights with each other and there were no lawsuits from these events. When we did fight with each other we knew we'd have to do it with our own fists because if we took the gun out of the house or even played with it, our asses would get beaten bright red by dad when he found out. And he always found out because he cared.

We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt and the worms did not live in us forever.

We rode an old metal car hood down the hill, in the winter, and slid out on to the ice that we sometimes fell through and rode down the river on ice flows when it broke up in the spring. We got very wet and very cold but no-one got pnuemonia and no-one drowned.

We were given bb-guns for our 10th birthdays, a .22 when we were 12 and we went deer hunting with a high power rifle when we were 14. No one got shot because dad had taught us to treat every gun as if it was loaded even if we KNEW it was not. We also were taught that a gun by itself never killed anyone, it was the careless idiot holding it that caused the problem.

We made up games with sticks, broom handles and tennis balls and although we were told it would happen, we didn't put out very many eyes.

We swung off the rope down by the river and dove into water that was just downstream from the cow pasture, that was to shallow to dive into, and no one broke their neck or got e-coli poisoning. We caught turtles, snakes and frogs and fished with the worms that we dug up ourselves, then ate PBJ's that we made and ate them without washing our hands. We did not turn green and die.

We rode bikes or walked to a friends house and knocked on the door or rang the doorbell, or.....just walked in and talked to them. We didn't have to call ahead and make an appointment.

We climbed uncle Carl's 60' tall silo, on the outside, just to see what the world looked like from up there, drove the tractor and baled hay when we were still to young to be called a teenager. We ran the meat saw in the store and watched Uncle Frank wave his butcher knife under the nose of the OSHA inspector when he said we were to young to handle knives. Uncle Frank said "Ain't no man going to tell me how to raise kids".

Little league had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!

When we lost a ball game or the ump made a bad call our parents didn't come unglued and scream at the coach or the ump or the other kids. They told us to try harder, not to blame our failure on someone else. They realized it was just a game and learning to lose is maybe more important than winning.

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of..........They actually had the audacity to side WITH the law.

The generations born in those years have produced some of the best risk takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!

The past fifty 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!

We can feel fortunate to grow up as kids before the lawyers and the government regulated so much of our lives "for our own good".

Kind of makes you want to run through the house with a scissors doesn't it?

Mark Hunt

What memories you brought back!


I did all of those things except the "bail" part. I knew that if I ever got arrested, I would just plead guilty and let them send me to prison. That would have been easier than what my Dad would have done. So I never did anything that could have gotten me arrested.

My Mom cooked our eggs in bacon grease. (MMMMMM.....crispy eggs!)

My Mom smoked not just while she was pregnant, but while she was becoming UN-pregnant.

Lead paint chips vs. Fritos.........other than salt, what is the difference???

Bike helmets???????????? WT???

Wussification. It's not a real word, buit it is a real thing.

Curahee.

Mark H

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Paul Pollets

On the money....

right on, Steve...

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ScottMP

I've read that before

not sure if it included riding back from the beach sitting on the open tailgate with our legs hanging over the edge.

Theres so many others that did'nt get us killed, just taught us a life lesson.

My Dad would tell the school " Thanks for taking care of this, if he acts up again I"LL TAKE CARE OF IT ". The teachers had the right to disciplne you.

Wayne, sorry your son was being teased but he took care of it. Did you counter sue for harrasment ? Oh course not. Life is tough ... learn to deal with it.

The schoold are so afraid of being sued and the parents are going along with it, that we are raising a bunch of woosys.

Where will the heros come from ?

Scott

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Wayco Wayne_2

Thanks Scott. Good things came from it.

Given time things even out. The wacky lady and her family moved out of town and my son took up boxing. He's now 16 and 30 pounds heavier than me. I'm careful in my disicpline. WW

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Tony_23

I believe

I believe in self-defense.
Defense of others who are weaker/unable (and deserving).
Adolescent fistfights at the flagpole to settle differences.
Consequences for personal actions.
Nobody ever died from a fat lip or a black eye.

My son got bullied once about the 8th or 9th grade. The administration knew me and my stance as they were there 25 years earlier. They felt as I did, but could not show it. They also knew I wouldn't take it laying down. That bully calmed right down
Another bully was shoving around a smaller kid in the locker room when my son was a junior. The AD asked my son why he didn't report the problem instead of what he'd done. He said to the AD, "You weren't here and I was". Problem solved.

Maybe that's the attitude that drove him to the USMC.

Sometimes I wish I were born 100 years earlier.....

Jeff Lawrence_25

Oh yeah Scott

If I got in trouble at school, you could be very sure that I got in trouble at home. The school punishment was nothing compared to my Dad's.

(Thanks, Dad, for being so good to me)

S Ebels

Scott and Wayne

Parts of that are an e-mail that I got from someone and other parts are experiences that are my own. A little personal embellishment.

Wayne, we went through the same thing with Andy in high school. One of the kids with the pants 8 sizes to big, chains on everything and pierced whatever kept calling Drew all sorts of crap in front of all the other kids at a ball game. After the game he threw a full can of pop and hit Drew in the back of the head with it. He challenged Drew to "be a man" and in front of about 30 kids started swinging a chain at him. Drew put out his lights in short order. The next day I get a call from the local constabulary saying charges of assault have been filed against Drew. The kid claimed Drew had a rock in his hand when he hit him. (Not true, Drew just whacked him good) I called the cops and the boy's mother and arranged a meeting with all of us and the two boys. I made Drew apologize for punching the kid out and then aked the other boy what made him think that Drew wouldn't retaliate when he hit him with the pop can. The kid denied it until Drew showed the cop, and the kids mother, the knot on the back of his head. That was pretty much the end of the discussion. It's also the way most problems should be handled.......face to face, no need for lawyers or cops or other supposed authorities. You got a problem with someone, talk to them, not a lawyer.

I really did feel sorry for the other kid......he didn't have a dad and his mom left more than a little to be desired as far as being a good influence. He was looking to be accepted and part of the group but went about it in all the wrong ways.

Mitch_4

ONLY IN AMERICA

North America that is cuz it happens here in the Great White North too..

Time once again to review the winners of the Annual "Stella Awards."
>
> The Stella Awards are named after 81 year-old Stella Liebeck who
> spilled hot coffee on herself and successfully sued McDonald's (in
> NM). That case inspired the Stella Awards for the most frivolous,
> ridiculous, successful lawsuits in the United States.
>
> Here are this year's winners:
>
> 5th Place (tie):
>
> Kathleen Robertson ofAustin, Texas, was awarded $80,000 by jury of
> her peers after breaking her ankle tripping over a toddler who was
> running inside a furniture store. The owners of the store were
> understandably surprised at the verdict, considering the misbehaving
> little toddler was Ms. Robertson's son
>
> 5th Place (tie):
>
> 19-year-old Carl Truman ofLos Angeles won $74,000 and medical
> expenses when his neighbor ran over his hand with a Honda Accord.
> Mr.Truman apparently didn't notice there was someone at the wheel of
> the car when he was trying to steal his neighbor's hubcaps.
>
> 4th Place(tie):
>
> Terrence Dickson ofBristol, Pennsylvania, was leaving a house he had
> just finished robbing by way of the garage. He was not able to get the
> garage door to go up since the automatic door opener was
> malfunctioning. He couldn't re-enter the house because the door
> connecting the house and garage locked when he pulled it shut. The
> family was on vacation, and Mr. Dickson found himself locked in the
> garage for eight days. He subsisted on a case of Pepsi he found, and a
> large bag of dry dog food. He sued the homeowner's insurance claiming
> the situation caused him undue mental anguish. The jury agreed, to
> the tune of $500,000. In my opinion this is so outrageous that it
> should have been2nd Place!
>
> 4th Place: (tie)
>
> Jerry Williams ofLittle Rock, Arkansas, was awarded $14,500 and
> medical expenses after being bitten on the buttocks by his next door
> neighbor's beagle. The beagle was on a chain in its owner's fenced
> yard. The award was less than sought because the jury felt the dog
> might have been just a little provoked at the time by Mr. Williams who
> had climbed over the fence into the yard and was shooting it
> repeatedly with a pellet gun.
>
> 3rd Place:
>
> APhiladelphia restaurant was ordered to pay Amber Carson of Lancaster,
> Pennsylvania, $113,500. after she slipped on a soft drink and broke
> her coccyx (tailbone). The beverage was on the floor because Ms.
> Carson had thrown it at her boyfriend 30 seconds earlier during an
> argument.
>
> 2nd Place:
>
> Kara Walton ofClaymont, Delaware, successfully sued the owner of a
> night club in a neighboring city when she fell from the bathroom
> window to the floor and knocked out her two front teeth. This occurred
> while Ms. Walton was trying to sneak through the window in the ladies
> room to avoid paying the $3.50 cover charge. She was awarded $12,000
> and dental expenses.
>
> 1st Place:
>
> This year's runaway winner was Mrs. Merv Grazinski of Oklahoma City,
> Oklahoma. Mrs. Grazinski purchased a brand new 32-foot Winnebago
> motor home. On her first trip home, (from an OU football game), having
> driven onto the freeway, she set the cruise control at 70 mph and
> calmly left the driver's seat to go into the back & make herself
> a sandwich. Not surprisingly, the RV left the freeway, crashed and
> overturned. Mrs.Grazinski sued Winnebago for not advising her in the
> owner's manual that she couldn't actually do this. The jury awarded
> her $1,750,000. plus a new motor home. The company actually changed
> their manuals on the basis of this suit, just in case there were any
> other complete morons around.

jackchips_2

In the year

2106, you will have been, Tony.

Jack

BD Brannan_2

True Stella Awards

Well, I have to be true to myself and mention that while there indeed is a Stella Awards website, unfortunately none of the scenarios mentioned above as being winners of the "True Stella Award" are true.

http://www.stellaawards.com/bogus.html

On an even more upward note, reading the accounts of life in the 50s or 60s (it was the 60s for me) sure brings back a flood of happy and maybe some not-so-happy memories, but I like to think I came out of it O.K.

bd

BD Brannan_2

True Stella Awards

Well, I have to be true to myself and mention that while there indeed is a Stella Awards website, unfortunately none of the scenarios mentioned above as being winners of the "True Stella Award" are true.

http://www.stellaawards.com/bogus.html

On an even more upward note, reading the accounts of life in the 50s or 60s (it was the 60s for me) sure brings back a flood of happy and maybe some not-so-happy memories, but I like to think I came out of it O.K.

bd

Mitch_4

thanks

you know tho in this day I can belive this..just got as an email and I thought timing so I shared it.

oh well..
mitch

Joannie_11

Pathetic

What a bunch of whimps we're trying to raise. Nobody can lose. Nobody can get injured. Nobody's widdle feewings can get hurt. Nobody can be better at something than someone else. That wouldn't be fair.

End result: Nobody's gonna learn to be a productive, mature, strong adult with courage, class and/or self esteem.