Student suspended for handstands, cartwheels

"Contact sports, apparently, are fine. But this one is so dangerous it requires the cartwheel cops," Faegre said.

I like the father's humor. ;)

I recollected I got beaten up with dodge balls more than a pair of legs belonged to a girl... Every body gets hurt on playground... yeesh. Several scabs won't kill anybody-- unless they got hemophilia then it is an entire different story.
 
I think the point was it was not the time (lunch) nor the place (cafeteria) to be doing cartwheels. Also, she had been told many other times not to but she kept doing it. It sounds like the principal suspended her for disobedience than just cartwheels.
 
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Jeez! This reminds me of a time when a few boys were suspended from elementary school for playing cops-n-robbers. :crazy:
 
This is nuts. :crazy: These days there are more 'rules' that are so anal. :roll: Can't have innocent fun without being punished for it.
 
I think a lot of this comes from us being such a sue-happy society.

Imagine the parent whose child was sitting down eating lunch and our cartwheelist accidentally kicks her. The child of that parent would have a rightful lawsuit. After all, their childs only crime was eating lunch in the cafeteria.

A child that is repeatedly told to stop doing it and refuses to stop deserves to be suspended, and the father should back up the schools decision...or at least put a stop to it before it went to the point of her being suspended.

Patton said Deirdre could accidentally strike another student, or injure herself, and other children could get hurt trying to imitate Deirdre, who has been doing gymnastics for five years.
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If she's been doing it for five years then she should have known that there is a time and place for gymnastics and the cafeteria isn't one of them.

Deirdre's father, Leland Faegre, said it was absurd to suspend his daughter for doing gymnastics when students were allowed to play basketball and other sports.
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Again, a time and a place. Playing sports in gym or on the field is where it belongs. If students were playing catch with a football in the cafeteria (even if they had been playing for 5 years), I'd say they too should be suspended if they refused to stop.
 
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