http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&e=3&u=/ap/dodgeball_on_trial

If stuff like this keeps happening, kids won't get to leave the classroom for fear of a kid falling and skinning his/her knee. What a load.

... wow... this is jsut stupid. Dodgeball is a hilariously fun game, and Artillary (a variation my school had, allowed traveling to the opponents side of the court) was my favorite game through grade school. And wow, "too warlike". That just... wow. So we should hide newspapers from kids, too? THAT HAS STUFF ABOUT WAR IN IT. OMG! It was an unfortunate accident, small kids running around in any situation and there's a probability of an injury, but this could have happened in something as simple as relay races. Bannng dodgeball is jsut.... stupid.

So, some are opposed because dodgeball is warlike, while others oppose it because it doesn't give the slower, less agile kids the exercise they need...aren't people reading a little too much into this simple game?

I loved Dodgeball in my childhood.

If they going to ban this game, might as well get rid of football, soccer and floor hockey...

pffffffffffft. I remember i broke my right arm in kindergarten playing some kind of game. I snapped both bones into several pieces and my arm looked like a f***ing pretzel. I had a cast for 2 months.

Hehe, I would love to see that......er...I mean...nevermind.

I say we just get rid of phys. ed. and recess so we don't have to keep listening to these stupid people ***** about everything, and wasting courts' time on stupid crap when there are more important things to deal with.

To deal with this one instance would actually make sense. But no.... let's just cruch dodgeball. It's EVIL!!!

Dodgeball is infact banned from being played on any school grounds in my county. I think that you can get suspended or fined for even trying.
Kids at my school did a prank by spreading rumors about a Dodgeball Club, which was funny cause on the announcements they said Dodgeball Club has been canceled.

Yeah, regardless of what the hell the children were doing, this whole running into another kid and then breaking your arm could have happened in almost ANY situation.

Why the hell must these people hide everything from kids? Just show it to them, let them live with it, and they'll grow up with it and be stronger!

Ever see Super-size Me?

getting rid of physical education altogether would be a very bad idea.

Well, we live in a country where people think it's outrageous if they are ever harmed in any way.

OMG I GOT A STOMACH ACHE I'M GOING TO SUE THE FDA!!!!

Kids get hurt. That's just part of being a kid. A kid getting hurt playng dodge ball is part of being ia kid. It sucks, but that's life.

I really hope the social pendulum starts swinging the other way again.

I've never played dodgeball, because I'm over in the UK, but rugger's a lot more dangerous than that, and we still play it in year 7. Twelve year old kids running into each other trying not to get trodden on, or (as I understand it) people whanging balls at each other. For that matter, cricket's pretty dangerous... and hockey. And football. And swimming.

SHOCK! BAN THEM ALL FOR TEH CHILDREN MSUT NTO BE TEH HARMED!!!111 LOL

What exactly IS dodgeball?

Ballon Chasseur/Chinois. I can't remember which exactly.

And geez, way to raise a future generation of wusses.

what next? when this kid grows up and gets into a bar fight, will he say "don't hit me or I'll sue you!" ?

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

I pulled a muscle last year in gym.. LETS BAN FLOOR HOCKEY
(i wouldn't mind that either, hockey players slapshot too much.. O_x)
[edit]The version included several balls and no safety or protection zone to run from the thrown balls.- Wait wait wait, there are safezones and games with one ball?[/edit]

" a nonprofit professional organization"

thats why they're trying to ban it, it loses them money and its a hassle! ha.

Frivolous lawsuits really need to go.



Hell, civil courts altogether really need to go.

Maybe not in this case, but alot of lawsuits like this are excuses for stupidity.

I was a fat kid and I was always one of the last 2 left on my team in dodgeball. That game pizzowned.

haha!!!
you know, it's not the terrorists that are going to do away with america. it's the frickin' lawyers and the idiots that hire them.
holy crap that's frickin' stupid.

God bless America.

Well at my school it went like this:

It was played in the gym, with one team on each side of the basketball mid-court line. You played by throwing balls (some places use rubber balls, we used smaller softball-sized foam filled balls) at one another. If you were hit then you were out and had to go to the jail in the other team's side. The jail was the oval area that freethrows are made from in basketball. The way to get out of a jail was to catch a ball in mid-air from a teammate, if it touched the floor before catching it, it wouldn't count and you stayed in jail.

If you caught an opponent's ball in mid-air and didn't drop it, then your opponent was out instead of you.

Man that game was fun...

I tell ya I did more exercise in that sort of game than whenever our PE teacher made us run around the high school track. Most of us would just run for a bit and then end up walking the rest of the way. It was stupid, boring and got us sweaty for no reason because even after we were tired from that, we had to walk all the back to the school. It's something like a block away, and when you're 4' something and just ran/walked a half mile around a track, it's ridiculous. (Literally a half mile, the track was measured to be 1/4 a mile around, and we had to walk around twice.)

That was intended to be satire, with a subtle slippery slope fallacy attached.

There's balls. You dodge them.

'Nuff said.

People like John Edwards?