Maybe the public should stop supporting teacher pay raises till they stop this crap.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,55836,00.html

I know in Canada, we don't have a great deal of say over teacher pay increases. I couldn't agree with you more though, that is ridiculous. Why stop out outlawing tag though, why not outlaw bikes too...I mean some parents can't afford $500 bikes like other parents can and that must create self esteem issues too. How about jeans! Outlaw jeans in school, you know the designer ones. Every kid can wear a potato sack to school so their can be no self esteem issues with kids wearing better clothes than their peers!

Next we will be hearing that ink pens will be banned from schools because a child could get some of the ink in his/her bloodstream hrough a cut,scratch,scab,etc;.This is stupid.

thats disgusting.

What's next? Banning homework because the stress of it can give children emotional injuries? Excrement of a male bovine [img]tongue.gif[/img]

feeble - utterly feeble. One of hte most pathetic things I have ever heard :D

maybe if hte teachers triedd, erm, TEACHIN Ginstead of talking rubbish maybe ;)

In my school, soda is banned but there is a soda machine in the teacher's lounge. Also, I remember that the in fourth grade they banned tag because of the same reasons. A librarian in my school has a rule that you have to wash your hands before picking up a library book, but she reads library books and eats Cheetos(r) at the same time! Also, in fourth grade during winter you could not bring your own sled to slide down the hill, you had to use the school sleds, which were pieces of crap. The gym teacher in fifth grade would make you run a mile aroung a field and you couldn't stop. For instance, one time somebody disturbed a hornet's nest, the hornets stung everybody, some people really bad, and we couldn't stop running! It sucked, one kid got around 20 stings. In fifth grade, they banned cd players for some odd reason. Maybe listening to your favorite music during recess was "distracting". Those were just a few of the odd problems we had in my elementary school back then.

[ 06-21-2002, 08:21 PM: Message edited by: Willard ]

We will also be hearing that girls can't wear dresses because the chance that boys could up them. These people are such idiots. hey you guys that banned tag! [img]graemlins/moon.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/thefinger.gif[/img]

FFS, I can only hope that this type of attitude never reaches NZ schools.

What do you expect from California? They have set themselves up so they don't have power all year, banned dodgeball, ask 10 year olds questions about their sexual feelings (http://www.azcentral.com/news/articl...survey-ON.html), and now they ban tag because it hurts fat kids feelings. If they were playing tag frequently they wouldn't be so fat. Now they'll just get fatter. I can't wait for these kids to get into the real world and shoot themselves because they couldn't handle all the negativity.