Schools Ban Dodgeball

awebrow
we talked about this today in Sociology.

http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=91520

Stupid. Everything is all bubblewrapped in this country now.

Let us get some bruises for christs sake.

But...even the nerds liked dodgeball when I was in school.

adults want to protect their children from the humiliation of losing nowadays
ghey really

Originally posted by the.kenzo
But...even the nerds liked dodgeball when I was in school.

...its just kids being kids.

that is stupid.

haermm

theres actually a school in California that has banned kids from touching each other
once i get home i can post the vids
or someone can lookup NBCs coverage on the issue on youtube

Originally posted by steverules_2

haermm

Originally posted by That ACDC Chick
thats basketball genius haermm

Yeah so? Where in my post did I say it isn't?

Originally posted by That ACDC Chick
theres actually a school in California that has banned kids from touching each other

is that even possible? what do they do to kids, tie them to their chairs?

the threads about dodgeball

Originally posted by That ACDC Chick
the threads about dodgeball

I know 🙂

back to the subject at hand por favor?

Bunch of pussies IMO, when I was in school we used soft dodgeballs that still went pretty far and no one bitched about that.

We played with these weighted balls of yarn, so you could throw them pretty well but if you got hit with it, it felt like you got hit with a marshmallow. No matter how hard it was thrown.

That was elementary school, though. We didn't play dodge ball in high school or Jr. High. At least, I didn't. I wasn't one who ever participated in anything.

Originally posted by That ACDC Chick
awebrow
we talked about this today in Sociology.

http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=91520

Pussies.

Dude, Dodgeball was the BEST! It was one of my favorite things as a kid. We played an alternate version called Pylon Ball. Everything was the same. EVERYTHING. Difference is, there was a pylon (orange cone thingie that you see on the side of the construction zone...it was the rubbery kind.) on the opposite end of the basketball court. If it was knocked over, the team won the game automatically. There was always a guard in front of the pylon, so it was hard to knock it over with a ball.

It was the BEST! I am going to setup a game like that for my 10 year highschool reunion.

Anyway, everyone played except those who had homework. Even the nerdie/prissy girls who could barely throw the ball. The better players knew better than to hit one of the nerdy/prissy girls with a cannon...that's not nice. And we had a no face rule...meaning, we couldn't hit each other in the face. If you hit someone in the face, you were out, and they stayed in. There was always a "ref" which was always a teacher.

Any Medic fans!?!?

I use to pwn everyone in dodgeball

mainly because i was so short and i was a hard target, like... worth 1000 points and shit