New Hampshire School District Bans Dodgeball

School Dodgeball Ban: New Hampshire District Stops 'Human Target' Sports, Citing Bullying after parents complained, but, after students gathered signatures on a petition the school board reconsiders its dodgeball ban. It should honestly. With the reduction or complete loss in recess in schools, kids no longer have a way to blow off pent up energy that games like tag, dodgeball and kickball, often played at recess, allow to happen, as well as getting kids to burn off the calories they injest during the day.

Do you think school systems should bend to parents complaints to ban games like this? 

Dodgeball has been banned here for years.

the teachers just found creative ways for us to still play it. tweaking the rules a bit, adding different objectives. but in the end, it was still essentially good old dodgeball.

Dodgeball should never be banned.

if you dont like it, stand there and let a ball hit you, then go sit on the sidelines.

easy.

This is what happens when we have PC liberals running society

they need to replace it with boxing.

if kids learn it is not some world ending unbearable pain to get punched they would not be sweating bullys in the first place.

they need to replace it with boxing.

if kids learn it is not some world ending unbearable pain to get punched they would not be sweating bullys in the first place.

 

Riverwolf007

When I was in school we used to have dodgeball every once in a while during gym class if my memory serves me correctly. I don't see the problem with dodgeball, the ball is pretty soft anyways. I could see schools banning the game called "suicide" (some people played that game during recess when I was in school, but it wasn't played in gym class or in any official school capacity), where people throw tennis balls (they brought their own into school) at each other and run to the wall, since the tennis balls are hard and can sting.

As far as recess goes, when I was in elementary school we had a 15 minute recess generally everyday after lunch, and we had gym (and most of the "specials" classes, like art, music, computers and library) once a week. In high school we didn't have recess and we took two semesters worth of gym (I did, and I think most other people also took, one semester of gym during freshman year and the other during junior year) which was basically 5 days a week, as well as one semester of health (It was mostly classtime but some days we would work out or hike). Likewise in College we were required to do, generally in the freshman year, a health and wellness class that was mostly classroom but also involved some days in the gym.

my home state of CT banned it about 12 years ago. "Too dangerous" my ass

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they need to replace it with boxing.

if kids learn it is not some world ending unbearable pain to get punched they would not be sweating bullys in the first place.

 

Diablo-B

that is the blow off valve for aggression.

schools criminalized school yard scuffles and we have seen what the result was.

a system where if you stand up for yourself you get in trouble with the law.

had i not grown up in a time when you could punch a guy in the face or punch a guy in the face that was picking on my friends who knows what would have happened.

maybe i too would have gone batshyt crazy at the unfairness of it all and shot up the place.

you can't live in an environment where you are terrorized endlessly and have no way out and it not have negative consequences.

Apparently the parents complained about it after Sandy Hook. By all appearences, it was a knee jerk reaction by parents and the school board towards "target based" games children play. I see it as too many idiots up that way.

Yeah, Bellevue, Nebraska (I went to elementary school at Bellevue Elementary just outside the back fence at Offutt AFB) for holding a fundraising dodgeball tournament, and yes, I played dodgeball there. 

My high school played it a lot. Like once every week or two. Of course we used squishy balls, not those rubber balls. I didn't like it because like a third of the balls were messed up and would curve like a bitch when you threw them.

In elementary school I don't remember ever playing dodgeball but I don't remember much from then. I do remember playing a game called Oscar's trash can where you would stand up the 6' or so mats and make a cylinder and you would try and throw balls in it while one kid threw them out.

People wonder why each generation of Americans becomes more selfish and undisciplined. We're making them that way. We're raising a generation of Americans who are used to everyone getting a trophy at the end of a competition.

People wonder why each generation of Americans becomes more selfish and undisciplined. We're making them that way. We're raising a generation of Americans who are used to everyone getting a trophy at the end of a competition.

UnknownSniper65

Exactly. I still think it takes away from seniors when you have kids graduating kindergarten or elementary school. It almost makes it not worth it to work those last 4 years to get a diploma for all those years of hard work when schools are trying to make kids feel like big kids by having them wear a cap and gown and get a "special" piece of paper promoting them to the 1st grade. 

I think schools need to be tougher. If a kid misbehaves, he should be water boarded.

Why would any parent complain about dodgeball? It's a game played with harmless rubber balls and most kids really enjoy it. You can't cater to the two kids who don't like it or else before long kids won't be able to do anything. Proof of continuing pussification of society. ferrari2001

Why would any parent complain about dodgeball? It's a game played with harmless rubber balls and most kids really enjoy it. You can't cater to the two kids who don't like it or else before long kids won't be able to do anything. Proof of continuing pussification of society. ferrari2001

How are kids going to learn to deal with conflict if they take it out of schools?

It exists in the adult world and it's not going anywhere.

Quite frankly Idgaf if it gets banned provided there's plenty of other good recess activities, but since that is seldom the case, it'd probably be good to unban it.

People wonder why each generation of Americans becomes more selfish and undisciplined.

UnknownSniper65

Where's the statistics to support this claim?  I see people say BS like this all the time, but I never see them actually back it up except with some anecdotal story about someone they know who has a sh*tty kid.

That's too bad, dodgeball is a good game. While I do think parents should get a say in their children's education I think they should reconsider this.

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People wonder why each generation of Americans becomes more selfish and undisciplined. We're making them that way. We're raising a generation of Americans who are used to everyone getting a trophy at the end of a competition.

WhiteKnight77

Exactly. I still think it takes away from seniors when you have kids graduating kindergarten or elementary school. It almost makes it not worth it to work those last 4 years to get a diploma for all those years of hard work when schools are trying to make kids feel like big kids by having them wear a cap and gown and get a "special" piece of paper promoting them to the 1st grade. 

I have a hard time figuring out where you're getting the "not worth it" part.  The difficulties one will face in the real world without a high school diploma alone, are enough to make graduating worth it.  Also when you're graduating high school your 5th grade graduation looks very insignificant and unimportant just as high school graduation will look far more insignificant later in life.

It's amusing watching these parents and teachers who think they can ameliorate the problem of bullying. Bullying is an unavoidable aspect of human nature. When I was a kid I was bullied, and I bullied other people too. I didn't become traumatized or psycho or anything like that. I think these parents just read a story on the news about some kid committing suicide due to bullying, and then they think that bullying is the big social issue of the decade that needs to be stopped.

Also, in my opinion, dodgeball's a perfectly healthy game. It allows kids a chance to be competitive and get some exercise. This whole "target sport" argument is pretty dumb, I think. The weaker kids can just hide in the back if they don't want to get hit.

This is what happens when we have PC liberals running society

heeweesRus

Read the artice. It was the parents complaining that made them ban. New Hampshire has had a long right-wing libertarian history. The ban has nothing to do with the state politics. 

Modern society is great. 

stupid

Ban ban ban ban. Always the ban. Why do we never hear news stories about things being legalised and allowed? Why is the number one solution for authority figures, leaders and politicians to just ban. Forbid. Das ist verboten and so on. Leave us the f*ck alone and do something productive, you empty suit c*nts.MrPraline

Dodgeball gets banned all over the place. This really isn't news. Lots of reasons to ban it today given a lot of parents have their lawyers on speed dial.

Parents should spend less time bitching to school and spend more time doing some real parenting.

Parents should spend less time bitching to school and spend more time doing some real parenting.

jimkabrhel

Agreed.  

This is problably the one time I will agree with a school on something like this.

Dodgeball really is school-sanctioned bullying.

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nope, not privileged enough

This is problably the one time I will agree with a school on something like this.

Dodgeball really is school-sanctioned bullying.

mrbojangles25

Dodgeball is a rite of passage for nerds.  That's how they earn their stripes.  You are depriving them of a valuable life lesson. 

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nope, not privileged enough

 

 

 

 

 

 

Aljosa23

The pussification of America continues. The school of hard knocks, in this case quite literally, is good for children.

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This is problably the one time I will agree with a school on something like this.

Dodgeball really is school-sanctioned bullying.

cain006

We would piss on the balls before gym then throw them at the Russian kid.

I liked dodgeball as a kid. I always aimed for the most annoying cooze in class. 

Another failure of government bureaucracy/public education.Laihendi