{"id":1665,"date":"2014-10-01T15:44:13","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T23:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/?p=1665"},"modified":"2024-11-14T09:11:12","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T17:11:12","slug":"schools-decision-turns-playground-fun-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/schools-decision-turns-playground-fun-head\/","title":{"rendered":"School&#8217;s decision turns playground fun on it&#8217;s head"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"TweetButton_button\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  data-url=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/schools-decision-turns-playground-fun-head\/\" data-text=\"School&#038;%238217;s decision turns playground fun on it&#038;%238217;s head\" data-lang=\"en\">Tweet<\/a><br \/>\n<script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,\"script\",\"twitter-wjs\");<\/script><\/div>\n<p>I swiped the headline from within the story. \u00a0Couldn&#8217;t resist. \u00a0The story via Yahoo News is from Australia: School Bans Cartwheels. \u00a0Seems that the school principal initiated the rule because, you know, &#8220;someone could get hurt&#8221;. \u00a0Huh.\u00a0 I had such high hope for the Ozzies. \u00a0In their defense, everyone except the principal at fault seems to think this is a bad idea, including her superiors at the Education Ministry or whatever they call it.<\/p>\n<p>A few months ago I wrote about a study done in New Zealand where the elimination of such playground &#8220;rules&#8221; did not result in more injuries. \u00a0Not only that, but there was a decrease in bullying and the overall discipline at the school improved. \u00a0 After that, I was hopeful that we might reverse the trend to childproof childhood. \u00a0Guess I was wrong.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/schools-decision-turns-playground-fun-head\/my-playground\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1666\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1666\" src=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/my-playground.jpg\" alt=\"my playground\" width=\"435\" height=\"580\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/my-playground.jpg 435w, https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/my-playground-112x150.jpg 112w, https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/my-playground-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 435px) 100vw, 435px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet I swiped the headline from within the story. \u00a0Couldn&#8217;t resist. \u00a0The story via Yahoo News is from Australia: School Bans Cartwheels. \u00a0Seems that the school principal initiated the rule because, you know, &#8220;someone could get hurt&#8221;. \u00a0Huh.\u00a0 I had such high hope for the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1665"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2428,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665\/revisions\/2428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}