Punishment Will Increase until You Start Having Fun

Schools in Britain are starting to ban various playtime activities. Football causes injuries, so it’s already gone from some schools. But so is skipping rope because “some girls fell over.” A popular game called “conkers” that calls for chestnuts has been banned because the nuts “could be used as offensive weapons.” The trend was discovered by Keele University researcher Sarah Thompson, who noted that “all the schools I visited saw playtime as a time that could not be left entirely to the children’s wishes.” Also, she noted, the teachers at the schools she studied complained that once given the list of things they could not do during playtime, the kids just don’t seem to want to play anymore. (AFP) ...Once again the kids are proven smarter than the teachers.