26th April 2007, 8:41 PM
I think Thompson should pursue something a little more productive, like lobbying schools to force the playground aids to stop kids who are playing Cops and Robbers and lecture them for an hour that they could become gun-wielding maniacs by doing so.
Soon enough, slides and monkey bars will probably also have to go. I don't know why, they just make me nervous. The children are learning to be violent by sliding down and crashing into a straggler at the bottom (I think we used to call that "lemon"). The monkey bars look like some kind of battle platform, on which the children can stand and duke it out while spectators at the bottom egg them on.
Don't even get me started on sandboxes, and how they teach children to hide corpses.
Soon enough, slides and monkey bars will probably also have to go. I don't know why, they just make me nervous. The children are learning to be violent by sliding down and crashing into a straggler at the bottom (I think we used to call that "lemon"). The monkey bars look like some kind of battle platform, on which the children can stand and duke it out while spectators at the bottom egg them on.
Don't even get me started on sandboxes, and how they teach children to hide corpses.