少女、側転をして放校に
サンホセ・エジソン・アカデミーのデニス・パットン校長は「何より心配なのは子供たちの安全です。」とし、Faegreちゃんがほかの生徒にぶつかったり、彼女自身がけがをしたり、彼女をまねた生徒がけがをする可能性にふれた。Deirdreちゃんは体操競技を5年間続けている。
Deirdreちゃんの父親リーランドさんはバスケや他のスポーツは許されているのに体操が許されないのはばかばかしいと述べている。(Reuters)【吉】
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It looks like the fun Nazis are at it again. According to an article from Reuters, little Deirdre Faegre has been suspended from her school in Los Angeles because she was, gasp, doing cartwheels. My god, what is next somersaults or ever worse the dreaded handstands? The fun Gestapo has gotten out of hand over the last few years removing the fun activities from the children's playgrounds and gym classes. School officials and "Safety Polizei" do not want them to have "winners and losers," they feel that this may scar the little tykes for life if they are not all labeled winners all of the time. Heaven forbid a child scrape their knee, bruise themselves, or otherwise come to grief. Where did all the fun stuff on the playground go, sure there were minor casualties, but you either got better at it or tried something else. Children of all ages used to have recess and time to run around and burn up excess energy from being pent up for seven and a half hours a day just listening and lining up in hallways (there would have been a whole lot less call for ritalin et al, and a whole lots less obese children). Lawyers and Government schools have taken all the fun out of being a child. Principal Denise Patton's "first concern is the safety of all children." I think it's high time that we go back and find Ms. Patton's grade school Principal and string her up. Let's find out why she was so callus in allowing the children of her school to gallivant around the playground and play on Chinese merry-go-rounds, teeter-totters, jungle gyms and all of the other recess monstrosities that Ms. Patton had so deftly dodged as a child. Ms. Patton and her entire graduating class of 11-year olds deserve medals, the ones that lived unscathed from the maniacal playground menaces, for what they had to endure. If they only knew, If they only knew.
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Gabriel Valley Tribune, Nov. 21, 2004) I am a sixth-grade student at San Jose Edison Academy in West Covina, and I would like to give my point of view on Deirdre Faegre, (she was in my class last year). I think she should be allowed to do her gymnastics in a designated area. But I also think that she was told many times and gave many warnings to stop, but she kept on going, which was wrong. But I do believe it was wrong if her father told her to go against the schools warnings. Also I think it's wrong if her father is going to home school her because she is going to miss all of her friends. Michael P. Anderson West Covina |
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From gymnast's view Re "Cartwheel compromise best,' (Your View, San Gabriel Valley Tribune, Nov. 24, 2004) The reason I refused to stop (doing cartwheels) was because I was not given a designated area even though my parents had asked for it. Also, the school never made it an issue at the beginning of the year. There are many sports out there and you can get hurt by playing all of them, but they did not allow my sport. My dad helped me because there are many people in the past who made great changes such as Luther and Galileo and Rosa Parks that stood up to stubborn unfairness. If you do not go against something that is wrong how do you expect to fix your problems? It is a good thing my dad will home-school me because education these days is not as good as it should be. I will not miss my friends because we have one another's phone numbers and we can see each other any time. Also my dad says that anyone not using the schools should not have to pay for them. Deirdre Faegre West Covina |
I want to say hello and thank you very much for your support. I am going to stand up for all kids if I have to stand on my hands to do it. With your support, we put a stop to these "handstand battalions and cartwheel cops." And thank you for trusting me because there were quite a few myths about the last few months. If you would like to help kids be kids, please write to your local media, my principal, and to school board members Mike Spence and Richard Vladlovic. And cc me at dfaegre@aol.com. And don't ever give up! |
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The penalties of excellenceIn the brilliant "Adventures of Baron Munchausen," the Prefect (Jonathan Pryce) of a city under siege by the Turks has brought before him a valiant, heroic soldier (Sting) who singlehandedly took out several Turkish cannons. The Prefect promptly has the stunned soldier executed, contending that his heroism served as a bad example for lesser soldiers who would be incapable of duplicating his feats. And you laugh at the satirical content of the notion...until you read the following from the preferred news publication of peterdavid.net, "The Week": "A California sixth grader was suspended from school for performing cartwheels and handstands in the schoolyard. Eleven-year-old Deirdre Faegre 'created an unsafe situation for herself and others,' said principal Denise Patton. She explained that other, less skilled kids might try to imitate Faegre and get hurt. In that case, Faegre said, the school should also ban basketball." Suddenly it's not as funny anymore. PAD
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Posted by Oryan at November 27, 2004 09:00 PM This whole thread made my head hurt. This is what happens when you start down a bad road and try to make it better with patchwork solutions. I'm sure this will fan the flames, but....this is why people want school choice. Why the public school system should not have a monopoly on education or, yet, not exist at all. This girl apparently is good at cartwheels. Really good. The principal's problem seems to be that if other students emulate her without the skills, they'll get hurt. The folks in the thread who compare this to the football or basketball teams have it dead on. Why should any student, possessed of skills, be discouraged or punished for displaying them when they don't hurt anybody?? I figured this one out years ago when I was a good student academically, but not athletically. The trophies on display in the halls went to the strong kids, not the smart ones. They got sent home on awards night with a pat on the back and a kick in the ass cause the durable award went to the locker room bully. Our lesson: "yeah, yeah, report cards are just spiffy, but better run that gridiron like a champ." Now, this circumstance shows us the reverse. If this girl had, say a talent for designing guns. I mean of course, on paper, drawing blueprints, that sort of thing. Anybody want to bet she'd still be in a sling with Mr. Principal? What if another child built one of her designs? What if she did? The school can't be endorsing this type of violent creation...heavens, no. In all three examples, as well as some others posted to the thread, creativity, creation and achievement, the things our schools are by their very mission designed to instill, are verboten by an arbitrary standard handed down by the bias of one or a few administrators. Not a fan of handsprings? Call them dangerous and punish them, while endorsing hockey. Don't like hockey, but love the balance beam....by all means scratch the hockey games. This bias can be applied to more cerebral pastimes, of course. The main problem here is while if it was my backyard or yours, or ABC Inc.'s school, we'd simply say "well, they set the rules. Stop the backflips." But, see, this is the State. If we don't like what a private group does, we pack our bags and head for the one we do like, or like better, but not with the state. In this case, public schools. The principal pulls a stunt like telling a student to curb her natural abilities, we get big conflict, like we got. I haven't forgotten about you folks who said "well, the girl wasn't punished for backflips, she was punished cause she wouldn't listen to the teacher." What's next? telling the sighted kids to wear blindfolds because of the visually-impaired student? At a certain point, one fellow was right in the thread, officials lose all their authority when their rules display obvious bias, in this case, literally, a child could spot it. What's that you say? The law does this to all of us at one point or another? We all have to put up with nonsensical rules, like the girl should have, or we go to the slammer? True, but as one can see, our prison population us way way up, and our society is increasingly polarized on this issue of when its a good idea to ban behaviors which affect little outside of ourselves, and which in turn, frequently cause ourselves to learn the best new ways to do things. In short, there's no moral high ground to stand on with the story of the girl's suspension. Students should listen to teachers, and teachers should not be so shortsighted as to stifle student talents. Barring a utopia, it'd be nice if this girl could easily have said "Mr. Principal, if you don't like me using my natural ability to do handsprings in school, that's okay, my parents and I will start transferring me to a new school tonight, but Mr. Principal, if you do this to too many students who utilize their talents in ways you don't like, you may need to find yourself a new job. Kevin Ryan |
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Hi Deirdre~ My name is Jennifer Parkes, and I have to say I agree with your father that suspending you from school for doing cartwheels and handstands is unreal. My daughter is also a competitive gymnast and has been corrected at school dances for doing basic gymnastics stunts and even in school for the same things. Fortunately she has never been suspended, but it just so crazy. They are allowed to play basketball at dances and "slam dance" but let someone stand on their hands and oohhh that's so scary it must be dangerous. I just wanted to say that while I'm the whole way across the country my daughter and I both feel for you and just wanted to say we are sorry. It would be so nice if people would take the time to understand gymnastics and while yes it can be dangerous it is no more dangerous than football, wrestling and other sports and they are allowed to be done on school property during school time. Keep your chin up!! Jennifer |
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I don't know what to say about this. I couldn't even think of a good title for this entry. So, I'm going to just reprint the whole article here. Hopefully the follow-up on this story will be headlined "Principal Fired for incompetence, idiocy."
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An 11-year old girl in California was
suspended from school for performing cartwheels and handstands during
lunchtime.
Now, it seems a common defense to argue that “individual liberties” are at risk as schoolhouse nannies strive to produce a world of the lowest common denominator, where excellence is forbidden because others might somehow feel bad (Harry Harrison, they thought your short story was a laudable goal!). I’m not automatically on the girl’s side here: my first thought was that she was performing say, in the school cafeteria. If she were, certainly it would make sense for school officials to tell her to stop. But it sounds like she was at recess and on the playground. And it certainly sounds like the nannies were out in force - after all, “other children could get hurt trying to imitate Deirdre.” They’ve already banned dodgeball and want to outlaw most contact sports - too dangerous, not everybody can be “good” at them, etc. Meanwhile, obesity among school children is a significant problem. I’m thinking school officials are again up to their standard busy-body tricks: the self-esteem Nazis covering their tracks with purported worries about “injuries.”
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The kind of place, in other words, where even superheroes could be sued for saving lives. Rock on, Dr. Swygert. And Deirdre — when you make the Olympic team come 2012 (2008?), make sure you forget to mention where you went to school. They don't deserve you. Posted at 7:22 PM to
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2004.11.12少女、側転をして放校に
禁止されていた逆立ちや側転を昼休みにくりかえしていたとして、ロスアンゼルスに住むDeirdre
Faegreちゃん(11)が小学校から一時放校となった、
サンホセ・エジソン・アカデミーのデニス・パットン校長は「何より心配なのは子供たちの安全です。」とし、Faegreちゃんがほかの生徒にぶつかったり、彼女自身がけがをしたり、彼女をまねた生徒がけがをする可能性にふれた。Deirdreちゃんは体操競技を5年間続けている。 Deirdreちゃんの父親リーランドさんはバスケや他のスポーツは許されているのに体操が許されないのはばかばかしいと述べている。(Reuters)【吉】
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Den wrote...
I've always been a firm believer that whenever an authority figure is an idiot, they forfeit all of their authority.
If that isn't inviting this to become another political thread, I don't know what is =)
It's interesting that the one article mentions another side of the story, but I can't figure out what that could be. Of course, the school would have the right to ask the girl to stop if her actions were overly dangerous, as has been mentioned, but I'm not sure "cartwheels and handstands" qualify.