Toronto school bans hard balls

[The Straight Story]

Toronto school bans hard balls

Students at an east-end Toronto school are being told to leave their soccer balls — and other hard balls — at home.

The principal of Earl Beatty Public School banned the balls this week after a parent recently suffered a concussion from being hit in the head with a soccer ball.

The principal, Alicia Fernandez, banned hard balls, claiming they're dangerous.

"Kids were coming in complaining of injury, or being scared," she said.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/story/2011/11/16/toronto-school-balls.html

[daleanime]

1. Oh, soccer balls...

:blush:

[sharp_stick]

2. Maybe parents should keep their damned eyes open

when walking around a playground.

I'm surprised you don't have to wrap the kids in bubblewrap just to get them in the bloody door.

Now I guess they'll just have to sit on the blacktop during recess, can't have them in the dirt they may encounter the terror of an ant or something.

[Morning Dew]

3. Uh oh, there goes the intramural petanque league.

[redqueen]

4. Oh FFS.

I'd like to see the person who kicked the ball hard enough to give that person a concussion. I hope there's medical evidence... but even if there is... it's still idiotic.

[dtexdem]

5. Well, I guess Tweety's out of luck at that school.

;-)

Next they should take a look at nerf balls -- I mean, they might give off nerf gas. ;-)

[rjj621]

6. Idiocy

Knee jerk reaction, not the first time school systems over-react to something small and won't be the last. Kids were complaining and being scared? Of soccer balls?!? Kids have become sissies and the over-reacting made them that way.

[applegrove]

7. Kick because I'm so embarrassed. I hope all Canadians are.

[ohheckyeah]

8. What about

Sweddy balls?

[meow2u3]

9. What's the school gonna do? Order the parents to neuter their sons?

I wouldn't put it past those overprotective mother types :evilgrin: