My baby's physical therapist told me today that dodgeball has been banned in NJ schools , because it is a bullying game. I tried to check to see if it is true ( she has kids in school so she would know about her own town school , but I was not sure if it was a statewide ban) . Looks like it is ?

 

I do know that they banned Little Tykes plastic slides and climbing gear at my daughter's PreK, Apparently they did not have enough room in their playard for such involved equipment ( rolling eyes) . We are talking a 2 foot long slide. Their yard is not tiny or anything. I think they are supposed to have rubbery ground for it too.

 

Good grief.

 

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Is_dodgeball_banned_in_new_jersey_schools

OMG !!!! what's next put them all in dresses

I certainly didn't help the dodgeball situation. In high school I used to try to take peoples heads off, I was a pitcher. God gave you two hands to catch the ball with, use them!

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C'mon now.................this is New Jersey.

Can't wait to move where there's fresh air to breath and normal people to talk to..........Geeeezzzz.

Everytime I turn on the news I hear something about bullying. It is ridiculous this whole generation of kids, are being raised to be softies. There have always been bullies in school, to me bullying teaches you an important part of life now matter who you are, people will judge those that are different them. Simple truth of life.

in my school we just called it "bombardment"

 

the balls were so you could barely hit anyone. like trying to hit targets at 100 yards with #9 shot

The only people bullied in dodgeball were the people who sucked. Of course they were going to get thrown at first. It is not like the athletic kids get higher grades than the nonathletic. Banning dodgeball is akin to giving everyone the same grade in science class because the kids that did the experiments right must be bullying the kids who didn't.

 

The pussification of America continues.

I went to a rough school we called it murder ball

And...........most of the bullies I went to school with became cops back then anyway.

Sometime in late elementary school, probably 1999-2000, we weren't allowed to play "sui" anymore, since it's short for suicide. About a month later we changed the name to wall ball and we were fine for the rest of the year, the next year, it was a no go again. They did let us play dodgeball with the rubber kickballs though, that was fun, same for middle school. In high school we actually played dodgeball in gym, but it was with 6" nerf balls that go about 10 feet before they fall straight down...

yep, we had the nerf balls

we had these kind of yarn ball type things that were really light and were hard to throw hard due to being so light. real dodge ball in NJ has been gone for a long, long time.

I loved playing dodgeball... They actually have adult dodgeball now

http://littlesilver.patch.com/articles/adult-dodgeball-bridging-a-gap-in-oceanport

 

just google adult dodgeball NJ and there are a lot of hits.

Untrue.

 

Perhaps some schools stopped dodgeball as part of P.E. class but many middle and high schools host after school dodgeball tournaments as a fundraising event.

I'm 34 and my generation started off with the red kick balls for dodgeball and transitioned to the crappy nerf type ones at some point. The foam ones sucked.

 

I can still remember the poooooiiiing noise those red balls would make bouncing off of someone. Ah the good old days!

 

Prison dodge ball was the best. Anyone ever play that version?

Hey i went to catholic school in queens NY when I was a kid, and we played Johnny on the pony. does anyone remember that.

Sometime in late elementary school, probably 1999-2000, we weren't allowed to play "sui" anymore, since it's short for suicide. About a month later we changed the name to wall ball and we were fine for the rest of the year, the next year, it was a no go again. They did let us play dodgeball with the rubber kickballs though, that was fun, same for middle school. In high school we actually played dodgeball in gym, but it was with 6" nerf balls that go about 10 feet before they fall straight down...

 

I remember suicide... Playing with tennis balls was usually OK, but when somebody would break out the racquet ball, then it got fun.

If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball.

It's too much, when I was in school, you played, you got good or you got black and blue, or you didn't play.

 

Sorry, we are so out of touch, people need to realize, some make the team, some don't, some can play DB and take it, some can't, they do something else, easy enough..

This is retarded, why don't people raise there children to defend themselves and to.have a back.bone. I will tell you this and I don't care who judges me, if my child gets suspended for defending himself against a said bully, he would not be in the least of trouble. Defending yourself is a right, don't even get me started on the school system. Mandatory Spanish classes in kindergarten, no dodge ball, teachers not minding there own buisness. This is America people, and if we keep cusdleing out children and never expose them to reality and teach them.our rights we failed as society. God bless America

We are raising a nation of pussies and our children will end up the prey of the meat eaters.

Suicide, asses up, and dodge ball are just about banned in NJ (suprised no statue yet). Kinda like your gun rights. It's amazing, we are raising entire generations to be whimps.

If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball.

 

Classic.

Unbelievable that this state continues to try and legislate bullying out of existence, and it AIN'T gonna work; kids being kids, there will always be bullying going on.

 

When I came home from 6th grade with a shiner from a schoolyard fight, my father made me join the local P.A.L. boxing gym.

 

No more shiners. Bullying solved.

 

We need to toughen these kids up because their contemporaries around the world will be taking and eating their lunches, both literally and figuratively at some point if we don't.

Dodge ball has already been banned in many schools long long ago. The government knows best. Trust big brother. There is no more heathy competition. Everyone gets a medal for trying. It's the new age of Amerika, comrades.