NY State Won’t Allow Kids to Play Kickball But Give Them Condoms
Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, April 19, 2011, 4:21 PM
New York bureaucrats identified potentially hazards facing children this summer- kickball, freeze tag and Wiffle ball.
The New York Daily News reported:
State bureaucrats have identified a potentially deadly hazard facing our children this summer – freeze tag.
That’s right, officials have decided the age-old street game – along with Wiffle Ball, kickball and dodgeball – poses a “significant risk of injury.”
And classics like Capture the Flag, Steal the Bacon and Red Rover are also deemed dangerous in new state regulations for day camps.
“It looks like Albany bureaucrats are looking for kids to just sit in a corner in a house all day and not be outside,” said state Sen. Patty Ritchie (R-St. Lawrence County).
Instead state officials want to give out condoms to school kids. All New York high schools are required to have a Health Resource Room where free condoms, health information, and health referrals are available to students.
New York hands out over 1.5 million free condoms each month.
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squeaky commented:
i guess they missed the connection between physical activity and weight control.
HeavyDee commented:
How in the hell are these kids playing “Freeze Tag” with all this Global Warming going on???
Don Rodrigo commented:
They can turn the condoms into water balloons, and heave them at their teachers.
Jennifer commented:
Hmm, another reason why homeschooling has made all the difference in my children’s lives. Really Red Rover?
Rachelle commented:
How long before the last sane person leaves New York?
Josh commented:
What about ‘Duck Duck Goose??’
Is that too violent?*&^$!!!!
vityaz commented:
You can burn a lot of calories having sex. There must be a way to incorporate the first “lady’s” agenda about losing the fat in with this non-sports policy.
Yeah I know they’re kids but you have heard of safe sex. There’s no such thing as safe wiffle ball.
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commonman commented:
We are now living in liberals’s world of make believe you could hurt yourselfs while playing kick=ball ,but condoms is ok, just by change they break you always go to your local planned parenthood for quicky abort.
Denbon commented:
I’m really surprise there is a human race, without the government taking care of us, we should not even exist. Children are going to get hurt that part of growing up. I have enough scars to prove that. I’m still alive without the government telling me how to play and not play.
ohio commented:
There goes Smear The Queer
rbosque commented:
Everything the left touches turns into a big fat sack of crap.
Lorraine commented:
Well… I guess now we know what NYC kids are doing to stay in shape.
Kitty commented:
They must have heard the outrage & laughter because they’re backing down:
New York Health Officials Back Off Proposal to ‘Legislate Fun’
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/04/19/classic-kids-playground-games-regulated-new-york/#ixzz1K0cAiA4I
Listen up commented:
If you live in NY and you have a brain leave now while there is still a chance you can save yourself and your kids. Go to AZ or TX or TN…anywhere but NY or the Mid West states.
AuntieMadder commented:
The kids need the condoms. They’re not allowed to play any games with one another except for Doctor.
Sheila commented:
The public schools here in our Texas district banned dodge ball long ago – they took out all the swings at schools, too – someone could get hurt! My kids learned to swing at the park and in the backyard; their public school friends do not know how to. My younger boy plays dodge ball or kick ball almost every day in gym class, and swings during recess – at his Christian school. Totally aside from the character lessons, the superior, old-style academics, and the better-quality student body, private schools provide superior physical education. Get them out of public schools – defacto child abuse. http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/index.htm
AuntieMadder commented:
#16 – I learned only three things from playing dodge ball at school: 1) bullies really love to play dodge ball; 2) the (relatively) soft pinkish rubber balls that kids play with at schools can cause both upper and bottom lip and at least one nostril to bust and bleed profusely if thrown with enough force and bounces off the face just so; 3) I hated dodge ball.
I loved the swings at the school playground and the jungle bars, too (the welded metal pipes installed over a concrete base taught me to never, never, never land on my head).
Terrance commented:
What do you expect from a bunch of overweight panty waste mommies boys….
Its time for Americans to start ignoring their governments (at all levels) and taking back their country and their lives. We are no longer a nation of laws, but a Nation of pussies slithering their way into every aspect of our lives….
Stop the pussification of America!!!
retire05 commented:
What do you expect from “educators” who are being spearheaded by Kevin Jennings? He recently ordered schools to have a “day of silence” to protest the harrassment of gay/lesbian/bisexual kids in American schools.
I will remind you, once again, what the Communist Antonio Gramsci said, that in order to indoctrinate children to your way, you have to get to them before the age of 12 or they are lost to you forever since they begin to think for themselves.
averagemelon commented:
I live in New York and our schools basically ignore this tripe. We even say “God” and “pray”. However, our teachers are so into athletics, they become abusive…especially to the seriously obese. They force them to run a mile and a half in 11 minutes or fail even if they are 150 pounds overweight and have never left the couch. This is sad on two fronts because you have to pass gym to graduate and it teaches them nothing about personal health and wellness and what to do to make themselves healthy and happy with a lower weight. Physical activity can actual be joyful yet they hammered them over the head with it breeding contempt.
I still despise New York and as soon as my last child graduates, I’m planning on moving out. Any state that taxes water is evil. Faricking evil.
just sayin commented:
In Philly they want to give children as young as 11 years old condoms to promote safer sex,which can be mailed directly to your house.
Andreas K. commented:
So, on one hand kids sitting at home is bad and Michelle O has come up with some plans to battle it. On the other hand kids moving around, playing, is also bad.
Hmmm…
Yeah, I have the solution: Obamacare will pay for liposuction for kids!
tommy mc donnell commented:
this is the superior use of your income by liberal america. it is things like this that make me realize how lucky we are to have liberal confiscation of income in america.
Van Halen commented:
The question no one is asking is exactly what were the legislators up to when they tried to push this bizarre rule?
tommy mc donnell commented:
the liberals say they give condoms to other people’s childern to prevent STD’s. how many eleven year old kids have STD’s? the real reason they give condoms to other people’s children is to encourage the kids to be promiscuous. children born out of wedlock are worth a lot more to liberal america then children born to married couples. compare the dependent allowance on your income tax with the amount allowed to a child born into the welfare system. someone asked what were these politicans really up when that recommended this. increasing the democratic party voter pool. the also like to encourage promiscucous behavior at an early age because monogamy is frowned upon by liberal america.
dunce commented:
1,500,000 condoms a month yet they have thousands of abortions. Looks like another teachers union failure, there must be a lot of kids putting them on bananas and cucumbers.
dunce commented:
Another thought, maybe they are getting the message that condoms are only for anal sex.
el polacko commented:
this article compares oranges to bananas in its attempt to stir up an emotional reaction. there’s no choice to either play freeze tag or else get a condom. silly as the ban against the game might be, it is at least consistent with the aim of protecting students from harm which is why most schools make condoms available to students who request them (they are not distributed willy-nilly, so to speak.) isn’t it better that a sexually active teen be able to get free condoms, accompanied by some information and counseling, rather than stealing them from a drug store, or worse, not using one at all ?
SSBN 627(B) commented:
No ,sir, you compare oranges to bananas in your response. Which is fine. As long as the banana has a condom on it.
tommy mc donnell commented:
#28…no it’s not okay for the state to give condoms to people’s children. who the hell is the politican to raise your child. if the school went back to trying to educate the children instead of raising them education would be a hell of a lot better.
wanumba commented:
The public schools inch every year closer to the Gulag.
Not kidding, either. Read the books. It’s about forced idleness, no purpose but loaded with arbitrary and contradictory busywork, spirit-dulling insistence on a false perfection, and propaganda.
The schools use prison and criminal justice terminology already: “lock-downs” “Community service” “time outs” The health services do more harm than good.
Schools always hire nurses, but they are not trained to diagnose, they are trained to work in a sterile envrionment under the orders of a doctor, so they habitually screw up patient care when placed in a position that requires evaluation and treatment decisions.
GulagCare.
wanumba commented:
The schools have become fundamentally dishonest in EVERYTHING they do. The “abstinence” class was nothing of the sort, a closed door freak show of “See this? See it? How about from THIS angle? Now, don’t do that.”
We were reviewing a public school history test today – multiple choice, as usual. The days of teachers making up their own tests is LONG GONE. The crap textbooks come with the pre-made tests. The way the test had been CONSTRUCTED, anyone with half a brain could GUESS at the correct answer.
GUESS. Actual knowledge of the subject wasn’t really necessary to pass it. The tests were designed to enable students who hadn’t learned anything to STILL pass the test that was supposed to show how much they’d learned.
The ITBS exam results have a deliberately skewed graph to make poor scores look better than they are. The deceit permeates even the “independent” testing services.
Showed the sophomore high school son today the 5th grade French math textbook – totally standard, not advanced. He went through some of the geometry problems and looked absolutely sick afterwards – not a SOUL in his entire high school would be able to solve a typical French 5th grade geometry problem, and what France does is pretty much what ALL of Europe and Asia does.
Even when people are receptive, they still do not grasp the MAGNITUDE of how much our students – this entire generation- have been cheated out of a solid education by the Progressive Left-ruined education system.
Lemonaide commented:
These lefty loons in New York and California are just about to get on my last nerve. Fine by me if they choose to screw up their own states, but unfortunately these two bastions of wisdom then feel duty bound to “enlighten” the rest of us dummies with their nonsense and even expect us pay for it. Any ideas how we could go about disinviting them to be part of the US? They could start their own country and call it the Ba-Nanny People’s Republic.
Corky Boyd commented:
Along with condoms, do they also provide the female companionship?
Wow, I was born way too early. I never had opprotunities like that in the sixth grade. Who wants to play kickball anyway if you can slip into the woods during recess and get a little.
Don Rodrigo commented:
3) I hated dodge ball.
Auntie Madder:
Dodge ball is not meant to be loved, but to help us deal successfully with fear and pain. It’s especially good for boys to have to play it. Boys are neglected in public schools to a disgraceful degree. Bullying has a silver lining too, if we learn to deal with it successfully. Nature has predators, humanity has bullies.
Sheila commented:
#36 – “Nature has predators, humanity has bullies.” Well said. As usual, both left liberals and right liberals (who generally mislabel themselves conservatives) want to legislate good intentions versus innate human nature. Reality wins, we lose. Decline and fall.
AuntieMadder commented:
@ Don Rodrigo #36 – Spoken like one who was on the giving side of bullying. I learned to handle bullies and then taught what I learned to my younger brother. But I didn’t learn it, nor could I have learned it, on their turf, so to speak, when they’re at the advantage.
The only benefit of dodge ball is the pleasure it gives bullies and gym teachers who remember fondly being little bullies and playing dodge ball in school.
AuntieMadder commented:
@ Sheila #37 – That passive aggressive jab couldn’t have been aimed at me because your reading comprehension skills are better than that. Or are they?