Kids bringing footballs to elementary school

[Anonymous]

Forget footballs. My kid was playing tag and got tagged hard. She cried!

She could have fallen down and got a bloody nose.

Playgrounds need to be banned now!

[Anonymous]

Geez, what a mean group of parents. I wonder if your children have inherited your talent to be snarky and sarcastic. Is their favorite pastime bullying others who are different or have their own opinions? You must be so very proud.

OP, these MCPS recess procedures for playground aides (see link) state that football games are NOT permitted at any time. Maybe your principal isn't aware footballs are brought to recess.

http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/departments/facilities/safety/G06%20-%20Playground%20Supervision%20Attachment%20A%20-%20070814(1).pdf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do I think some people get too sensitive about a child possibly experiencing normal childhood injuries? Yes

Do I think the OP was being too sensitive by taking her child to the doctor? No. Not having seen the injury, I'm really not in a position to judge, but if my child had headaches after a blow to the head I might feel it was worth checking out too. The doctor told her to bring the child in to have it checked out and I have more confidence in a professional medical opinion than in someone whose children were occasionally hit by the ball themselves.

For the poster whose child cut themselves with scissors: while I don't think scissors should be banned, I do think there should be rules for scissor safety. I think we can all agree that children should not be allowed to run with scissors because that would unnecessarily raise the risk of injury. (I'm not saying this is how the child injured herself. Being somewhat clumsy myself, I understand that sometimes accidents just happen.)

Yes, you can fall off a curb or run into a stump and hurt yourself (as notrd above, being somewhat clumsy, I've run into more things than most people can imagine), but there is a difference berween being hurt by your own carelessness and someone else's.

Do I think footballs should be banned? No, but I do think there should be rules to minimize injury. Perhaps if kids want to play with actual footballs versus the nerf type, a play area could be designated for that. We don't really have enough information here to know the situation. If the girl wandered into the football area, then while it's sad she got injured, she does bear some responsibility. On the other hand, if kids were dashing around the playground throwing the ball around kids who were trying to play other games, I think the football players would bear the brunt of the responsibility. I suspect the truth is somewhere between the two extremes.

I could not agree with this poster more.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Geez, what a mean group of parents. I wonder if your children have inherited your talent to be snarky and sarcastic. Is their favorite pastime bullying others who are different or have their own opinions? You must be so very proud.

OP, these MCPS recess procedures for playground aides (see link) state that football games are NOT permitted at any time. Maybe your principal isn't aware footballs are brought to recess.

http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/departments/facilities/safety/G06%20-%20Playground%20Supervision%20Attachment%20A%20-%20070814(1).pdf

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