National Review Online (along with several other news outlets) reports a New Hampshire school district has voted - well, the school board did, 4-1 - to do away with dodgeball because it is a "human target" game.
I could understand this decision better if we were talking about the kind of dodgeball we played when I was a kid and the balls were heavy missiles. When I was six years old, I was hit flush in the face with one of those artillery rounds and both lens in my glasses popped out. But in this case, the balls in question are not even inflated. They're Nerf balls. You know, the kind of soft, spongy balls that big brothers like to bounce off the heads of their baby sisters.
I can only imagine how many lens have popped out, how many faces have been rearranged by a flaming Nerf ball. (Come to think of it, if we had had Nerf balls back in my day, they probably would have been flaming, just to make the game more interesting.) At any rate, the citizens of New Hampshire can rest easy knowing their school boards, one of them anyway, is out there protecting their children from themselves.
Meanwhile, we have an answer to the age-old question "What do Nerf balls and New Hampshire have in common?"
Answer: They're both soft.
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