Kids should just be born with the orange suit on!

All my rants about banning tag and running on the playground during recess have be answered.

Or it is for many children. According to the National PTA, nearly 40% of U.S. elementary schools "have either eliminated or are considering eliminating recess." Twenty to 30 percent of schools offer 15 or fewer minutes of daily recess. Lifers at Leavenworth get more time in the exercise yard. And the U.S. Department of Education reports that 7% of all U.S. first- and second-graders -- and 13% of all sixth-graders -- get no recess whatsoever.

Pat subscribes to Sports Illustrated and many times will read me things from various columnists that are very interesting or funny. Tonight he read parts of this one to me and I just about flew through the roof! Tonight's column was written by a man named Steve Rushin, one of Pat's favorites. Unfortunately, if you don't subscribe to the magazine, you cannot access the whole article so I will do my best to pull exerpts from it.

But before that I must rage for a few...Kids NEED recess!!!!!! What is wrong with schools these days!!!!! Did they lose their brain cells or something? Or memories of their own childhoods? Or is it people who just HAVE to sue for every little damn thing that is causing this? When I did daycare, I much preferred the kids over the parents!!!! Often times the kids were smarter than their parents!

It's bad enough when you get out of school that a person is virtually a slave to their jobs or college. But wait, they get breaks don't they? What in the hell have the kids done to be the victims of these idiotic 'decision makers'???? Why is it the kids suffer for the stupidity of those out there that are so damn selfish and greedy, and scared?

Ok...enough....here's some more from the article:

The author writes about how 'life is a chase game'

It's a jungle out there, but you'll be hard pressed on most playgrounds to find a jungle gym, or monkey bars, or stainless-steel slides that in the summer months sizzle like a fajita skillet. Many seesaws are built with springs instead of the fulcrums that allowed one kid to jump off at the bottom, causing the other to drop abruptly, as if down an elevator shaft. And every piece of bubble-wrapped playground equipment -- excuse me, playscape equipment -- is festooned with labels that warn of deadly consequences for the smallest misuse.

Unfortunately, I have to leave it at this. Since the author is behind a subscription, I must refrain from adding more. Not because I want to, it's a great article sprinkled with humor to offset the absurdity. I would love for all of you to see it! Get a subscription!!!!!!!!