Swimming, archery at camp too dangerous for students, school says

The irony is that it is just as dangerous for these kids to make their way to and from school on a daily basis as it is to go to a camp for 3 days and participate in these activities.

Too bad that they have to miss out on a great experience based on what could happen...

Swimming! Damn they're on to me. Time for a new plan.

Swimming and archery were two of the best things at camp when I went, many moons ago. When is this over-parenting/nanny-state B.S. going to end? We are going to end up with people too afraid to walk out their front doors! If people don't experience danger, and/or the limits involved, they will never fully grow as a person. I've never seen it so bad before.

-J.

I don't rely on the schools to do anything except teach the kids how to read, write and arithmetic. I wonuldn't mind if theyb tuaght then how to splel either.

My kid has had close encounters with rattlesnakes, black widows and bears and he's not 11 yet. Don't mention to his mother though. It's a bit of a sore point.

Read between the lines here. What this is really saying is, " It's 2014 folks, so there's a huge chance that if any little thing happened to one of your wee angels during these activities, you would sue our asses off until we were forced to completely shut down, because everyone's looking for a free ride these days. Sorry for any disappointment, but you caused it yourself."

Close?

I heard an interview with one of the teachers on this while driving in this morning. What came to my mind (first) was some tight-ass Miss Grundy resplendent with wing-tipped glasses going "tut-tut". I thought on it a bit further and decided that what was really driving this is a tight-ass Swiss Actuary who won't insure a school board that doesn't take ALL the risk out of their school activities.

"Tear down the swing set."
That's actually happened.

When I worked at the school as lunch monitor the kids were not allowed to do cartwheels (they might break an arm). There was talk of banning soccer and football (way to much body contact you know) I was waiting for them to install a kid bubble wrap machine...

Half my streets parents drove their kids to school rain or shine. We were 1.2 km from door to door. Then the same SOBs complained that kids were out of shape and over weight!!

I still own clackers... I played with real lawn darts! I'm all for safty and being careful but they have gone way too far.

Better wrap the kids up in bubble wrap all day. Anything less would be negligent.

Yep.

They won't be safe...

Same here, camp was great fun. Swimming, archery, drinking, hunting girls.


When I read the headline, I started laughing, then realized... we are so fucked.
Happy I'm not a kid these days.

So are they saying you can't bow hunt around the water?

Fixed that for ya......



You and me both, also happy not having to try to bring kids up in this "modern" day and age!