Dodgeball now banned in public schools as nanny state goes insane!

MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (PNN) - April 1, 2013 - The nanny state mentality is becoming more institutionalized in Amerika as evidenced by the recent decision to ban the age-old gym class game of Dodgeball in one New Hampshire school.

In an incredible four to one decision, the five-member school board panel at Windham School voted to ban the "classic gym class game" which "has been a rite of passage for years" for children. At the same time, the board voted to end all other so-called "human target" activities - games with names like "Bombardment" and "Slaughter".

"It's almost turning into a nanny state," said school board member Dennis Senibaldi, the lone school board member with enough sanity left to vote against the ban. "What happens when they replace that game with something different that another group doesn't want to play, do we eliminate that group of games?"

Oh, of course there were lots of touchy-feely reasons for banning a game that has been around longer than most board members have been alive, to be sure. They include a handful of complaints by whiny parents, who claimed their children were being bullied - targeted by the other children during Dodgeball games. After studying the issue, a special committee said the games should go away. After all, we can't be teaching our children to be competitive or to learn how to adapt to adversity and overcome it.

Needless to say, not a few students were stunned by the decision.

"I think they're really fun because they're just soft balls so it doesn't hurt if it hits you," sixth-grade student Lindsey Stagg, who - at her tender age - spoke more truth and sanity then the four lunatics and their special panel who voted to end the traditional game.

What's next, ending tackle football, basketball and track because, gee, some children are just more physically talented than others?

We are teaching an entire generation of children that a) equality means equal outcomes, not equal opportunity; b) excelling at something should not be rewarded but criticized; c) that they should not have to face difficulty or adversity in life; and d) choice, opportunity and freedom are archaic notions that have no place in modern society.

Meanwhile, children in the rest of the real world are still living. Perhaps that is part of the reason why the Fascist Police States of Amerika lags so far behind those countries in so many categories.