Nouw said:
Fuck to the no, isn't it just kicking a ball?
Your beloved American Football is far more dangerous but you wouldn't dare ban that?
The thing is, in the US, if it is something that would be a hot button issue, chances are it won't get banned or it could take many many years and be phased out so slowly people won't know it happened until it has.
Since kickball isn't a major sport, it isn't a big enough issue if it is removed.
The real problem here is the alarming fact that more and more normal school/camp activities of old are being removed because there is even the slightest chance that a kid can get hurt.
The schools/camps are also doing this because of the sue-happy nature of the country. Less sports where a kid can get hurt and the school wrongfully sued, the better.
Heck now a days, at some schools, kids can't bring anything that has peanuts in it for lunch(so no peanut butter and jelly), because of the fear that the one kid that has the allergy will by some fluke eat the food of the other kid, and then the school gets sued by the parents.
In some schools they are banning kids bringing specialty foods like fast foods or pricey or "unhealthy" snacks. It is a wrongful and fascist way of schools trying to change how parents feed their kids. They also try to hide under some bull that they don't want the poor kids to get jealous of the kids that get to have what they want for lunch, instead of the cheap and gross school food. I really fear for the system if that last reason isn't a cover up for the fascist diet control stuff.
Back on the kickball, yes, it can be dangerous, but accidents happen, it is a part of life.
I remember way back in grade school, one of the girls in my class was the ball-roller/pitcher; she rolled it and one of the strongest kids in class kicked it so hard and at a perfect angle that it flew right back and smashed into her face. The girl blacked-out and fell to the ground, and had to be taken to the nurse.
But still, it was an accident. Shit happens. We've got to stop accident-proofing things that aren't extremely harmful, physically or mentally. It's like the push to remove violence from cartoons, now, there are far less good or great cartoons today then there were back in the day. Some of the ones today look like the creators were smoking something when creating them, more so than some of the weird ones from back in the day.
Boy, I'm starting to show my age.
