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June 11, 2007
British Prissification Campaign
The American Spectator keeps us apprised of some of the recent proposals to advance the prissification of children attending British schools. Proposed and actual bans include:
- Playing on an old steamroller that had stood on a playground without incident since 1964, because it "failed to meet any required standards whatsoever."
- Sack races, three-legged races, and egg-and-spoon races, because they might encourage a competitive spirit.
- Musical chairs, because it could lead to aggression.
- Certain playground swings, because they were too tall.
- A charity kite-flying contest, because of a lack of health and safety insurance.
- Palm trees, because they have sharp leaves.
- Making daisy chains and flower baskets, because the flowers might have germs.
- Playing conkers without safety goggles, because a piece of chestnut shell could conceivably get in someone's eye.
Activities forbidden at various schools also include handstands, tag, yo-yos, tree-climbing, skipping, ball games, bicycle-riding, and throwing snowballs without acquiring the target's opinion in advance.
However, children are not forbidden to snivel and whine, the only profitable skills in a world run by moonbats.
On a tip from V the K.
Posted by Van Helsing at June 11, 2007 3:49 PM
Comments
Van, is that a trackback link I see?
What about activities like two boys or two girls kissing (with tongue)? Heavy petting in the hallways?
Posted by: Steve at June 11, 2007 4:28 PM
And did you see this?
Posted by: Steve at June 11, 2007 4:30 PM
At least they are allowed to throw snowballs, I wasn't even able to throw snowballs because "There may be ice in it that could hurt the person."
Posted by: Anonymous at June 11, 2007 8:37 PM
With these guidelines, these kids are going to grow up with the constitution of a oyster on the half-shell. It makes you wonder how any of us survived to adulthood. And with the coddling these kids are geting, will any of them survive adulthood?
Posted by: James F McEnanly at June 11, 2007 8:47 PM
The swings thing is conceivably because of yet another EU directive on the heights of swings, which made most of the playgrounds in the c ountry illegal at a single stroke.
The rest? I'm just glad I went to a school that had common sense...
Posted by: Archonix at June 12, 2007 4:21 AM
When I was in elementary we played tackle football on a gravel parking lot. In six foot of snow. Without jackets. And both goal posts were uphill. We didn't have a real football so we used a big rock. The losers were mercilessly ridiculed.
Ah... the good old days...
Posted by: Jimbo at June 12, 2007 4:50 AM
There are plenty of schools in the US that are going this route...and then everyone wonders why kids are getting fat!
Posted by: Pam at June 12, 2007 5:28 AM
It seems to me that the kind folks who concoct these guidelines think that the world should consist of 3 types of populace:
1)ultra-soft, ultra-sensitive, effeminite human beings...sigh...;
2)Islamofascists;
3)Communists.
Ironically, Groups 2 and 3 desire that the West be populated with Group 1; hence their long-standing efforts to bring about this very transformation, thereby having us, as the Communist revolutionaries used to say, fall into their hands like rotten fruit.
These idiotic schoolyard rules will most definitely assure that Western children "educated" in such places grow up to be "rotten fruit"...or should I say "fruits"?
Posted by: Toa at June 12, 2007 6:59 AM
Hey! I like playing conkers without wearing goggles... hmm. what the hell is conkers?
Posted by: Anonymous at June 12, 2007 7:55 AM
Conkers look a bit like chestnuts, but are very poinsonous. What you do is take one of these chestnutalikes, boil it in vinegar and then dry it out for a few weeks, then put it on a string. Players compete by pairing up and alternatively swinging their conkers at each other to see who's breaks first. It's a highly competitive playground sport and very equitable. All you need to do is get a few conkers and some string.
Posted by: Archonix at June 12, 2007 8:40 AM
