More and more elementary schools around the United States
are so concerned with the “politics” of their playgrounds that they are
hiring “recess consultants” to police them. The firm that provides the
“consultants,” Playworks, says recess
can be more inclusive and beneficial
to children if it’s more structured and if phrases like, “Hey, you’re out!” are
replaced with “good job” or “nice try.”
Yes,
Playground Police, that’s what we need. And we certainly need to ban more
“phrases.” I myself recall weeks and weeks of despair spent trying to somehow put
my life back together after one of my
schoolmates informed me, “Hey, you’re out!” during a heated game of Dodge-ball
(now banned) or tag.
These kids will certainly be well
equipped as young adults to face the business world, ISIS, AL-Qaeda, Russia, China,
Iran, Kim Jong-un, et. al.
Playworks “oversees” the games and
activities and designs them to reduce unruliness and ensure that no children are left out. Schools pay the company many
thousands of dollars to do this.
Structured, instructed, policed
play…isn’t “play” at all. The heavy adult presence changes
the recess dynamic leaving many kids confused and joyless. At a few schools,
some classes and even entire grades have signed petitions to draw their school
official’s attention to the fact that this new direction is an unwise one.
This is all part of progressive’s
plans to take away more and more of our freedoms while making us ever more
docile. When we are (made) less independent we by definition become more
dependent…on our government’s that tell us that they are doing (whatever it is that they are doing at
any given time) it for our own safety and benefit. If we don’t have the
character, courage, faith and fortitude to resist this
domestication-by-dependency now, we never will, as this process has been going
on in the West for decades and has done irreparable, and nearly insurmountable,
harm. We continually allow ourselves to pay more and more money for dumber and
dumber- and more counterproductive- government programs and policies. We need to tell government, “Hey, you’re
out! (But nice try!).”
Our playgrounds should be grounds for play,
not social engineering.
And that, my dear Watson, should be elementary.
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