A school in Québec has created a zone where kids can be turbulent and throw each other to the ground:
Some Quebec elementary schools experiment with letting kids play rough
[...] Bernier believes that, rather than encouraging violence, the project actually prevents it by showing kids how to expend their energy in an appropriate way.
“We’re not seeing (violence), because we ban violence,” she said. “The kids who are there to hit are immediately taken out,” she said.
Lenore Skenazy, a New York-based author and speaker who founded the website Free Range Kids, said humans and almost every animal species, have been play-fighting since the dawn of time.
“To act like that is automatically aggressive and evil and cruel is to misinterpret a basic stage of childhood,” she said in a phone interview.
For safety reasons they forbid kicks, punches and they teach kids how to fall.
I feel that this measure has the possibility to be of immense help to the young boys that are struggling in schools. I don't know about the situation in the states but here in Québec boys are less successful than girls at getting a high school diploma, and it only gets worse from there.
(Score: 5, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 26 2019, @09:04AM (2 children)
Clever people, those Canadians. Who knows what will come next? Finger-guns? Hand-grenade miming with pretend deaths? Rolling down-hill in a cardboard box? We'd better catch up quick. We might have a play gap. I'm willing to serve as a six-figure consultant on this. I have an extensive resume of authentic 1970s roughhousing.
(Score: 3, Funny) by wisnoskij on Tuesday February 26 2019, @02:54PM (1 child)
With kicks and punches forbidden, bludgeoning your opponent with sticks seems to be one of the few things allowed. I guess they have rock throwing as well, but I cannot think of much else.
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Tuesday February 26 2019, @05:19PM
Concrete shoes.
Future mobsters In the works.
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