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Page 116
Only in America; Magic sponge
OWEN SLOT
SPORT
"Only in America"
---The Times of London Headline Over a Story about the
Cartwheel Suspension
The Fun
Polizia are at it Again!
It looks
like the fun Nazis are at it again. According to an article from Reuters,
little Deirdre Faegre has been suspended from her school in Los Angeles
because she was, gasp, doing cartwheels. My god, what is next somersaults or
ever worse the dreaded handstands? The fun Gestapo has gotten out of hand over
the last few years removing the fun activities from the children's playgrounds
and gym classes. School officials and "Safety Polizei" do not want them to
have "winners and losers," they feel that this may scar the little tykes for
life if they are not all labeled winners all of the time. Heaven forbid a
child scrape their knee, bruise themselves, or otherwise come to grief. Where
did all the fun stuff on the playground go, sure there were minor casualties,
but you either got better at it or tried something else. Children of all ages
used to have recess and time to run around and burn up excess energy from
being pent up for seven and a half hours a day just listening and lining up in
hallways (there would have been a whole lot less call for ritalin et al, and a
whole lots less obese children). Lawyers and Government schools have taken all
the fun out of being a child. Principal Denise Patton's "first concern is the
safety of all children." I think it's high time that we go back and find Ms.
Patton's grade school Principal and string her up. Let's find out why she was
so callus in allowing the children of her school to gallivant around the
playground and play on Chinese merry-go-rounds, teeter-totters, jungle gyms
and all of the other recess monstrosities that Ms. Patton had so deftly dodged
as a child. Ms. Patton and her entire graduating class of 11-year olds deserve
medals, the ones that lived unscathed from the maniacal playground menaces,
for what they had to endure. If they only knew, If they only knew.
Jonathan Clausen, 11/15/2004 11:14:49 AM |
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Compromise best (Your View,
San
Gabriel Valley Tribune, Nov. 21, 2004) I am a sixth-grade
student at San Jose Edison Academy in West Covina, and I would like to
give my point of view on Deirdre Faegre, (she was in my class last
year).
I think she should be allowed to do her gymnastics in a designated
area. But I also think that she was told many times and gave many
warnings to stop, but she kept on going, which was wrong.
But I do believe it was wrong if her father told her to go against
the schools warnings. Also I think it's wrong if her father is going to
home school her because she is going to miss all of her friends.
Michael P. Anderson
West Covina |
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From gymnast's view
Re "Cartwheel compromise best,' (Your View,
San Gabriel Valley
Tribune, Nov. 24, 2004)
The reason I refused to stop (doing cartwheels) was because I was not
given a designated area even though my parents had asked for it. Also,
the school never made it an issue at the beginning of the year. There
are many sports out there and you can get hurt by playing all of them,
but they did not allow my sport.
My dad helped me because there are many people in the past who made
great changes such as Luther and Galileo and Rosa Parks that stood up to
stubborn unfairness. If you do not go against something that is wrong
how do you expect to fix your problems?
It is a good thing my dad will home-school me because education these
days is not as good as it should be. I will not miss my friends because
we have one another's phone numbers and we can see each other any time.
Also my dad says that anyone not using the schools should not have to
pay for them.
Deirdre Faegre
West Covina
|
 I want
to say hello and thank you very much for your support. I am going to
stand up for all kids if I have to stand on my hands to do it. With
your support, we put a stop to these "handstand battalions and cartwheel
cops." And thank you for trusting me because there were quite a
few myths about the last few months. If you would
like to help kids be kids, please write to your local media, my
principal,
and to school board members
Mike Spence
and
Richard Vladlovic.
And cc me at
dfaegre@aol.com.
And don't ever give up! |
---Deirdre
"...It was later discovered that her lunch consisted of six Hostess twinkies and
two cans of Red Bull."
---Anonymous
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WITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE, PITY AMERICA'S KIDS
And Please Sign the
Separation of School and State
Proclamation
"First, God created idiots. That
was just for practice. Then He created school boards."
---
Mark Twain
| Personally, I still sympathize with the
Faegre family, and
give a tip of the hat to Leland
Faegre for
manipulating both the press and public sympathy into his court. He's got a
political agenda that will get marginally more interest now that his
daughter is semi-famous. The name "Deirdre
Faegre" is
probably among the top 100 search terms on Google this weekend (which
makes her 2,000,000,000,000th overall).
---Chris Elam,
Safety
for Dummies, 11/15/04 |
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"Playground monitor, Edwina Funklebutt has had it
out for
Deirdre Faegre
for years. "There's only gonna be one freaky name on these grounds, dammit!"
---Unnamed
Source |
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Vote
"When cartwheels are outlawed, only outlaws
will do cartwheels..."
---Anonymous
The penalties of
excellence
 In the brilliant "Adventures of Baron
Munchausen," the Prefect (Jonathan Pryce) of a city under siege by the
Turks has brought before him a valiant, heroic soldier (Sting) who
singlehandedly took out several Turkish cannons. The Prefect promptly
has the stunned soldier executed, contending that his heroism served as
a bad example for lesser soldiers who would be incapable of duplicating
his feats.
And you laugh at the satirical content
of the notion...until you read the following from the preferred news
publication of peterdavid.net, "The Week":
"A California sixth grader was
suspended from school for performing cartwheels and handstands in the
schoolyard. Eleven-year-old Deirdre Faegre 'created an unsafe situation
for herself and others,' said principal Denise Patton. She explained
that other, less skilled kids might try to imitate Faegre and get hurt.
In that case, Faegre said, the school should also ban basketball."
Suddenly it's not as funny anymore.
PAD
This whole thread made my head hurt. This
is what happens when you start down a bad road and try to make it better
with patchwork solutions.
I'm sure this will fan the flames,
but....this is why people want school choice. Why the public school system
should not have a monopoly on education or, yet, not exist at all.
This girl apparently is good at cartwheels.
Really good. The principal's problem seems to be that if other students
emulate her without the skills, they'll get hurt. The folks in the thread
who compare this to the football or basketball teams have it dead on. Why
should any student, possessed of skills, be discouraged or punished for
displaying them when they don't hurt anybody??
I figured this one out years ago when I was
a good student academically, but not athletically. The trophies on display
in the halls went to the strong kids, not the smart ones. They got sent
home on awards night with a pat on the back and a kick in the ass cause
the durable award went to the locker room bully. Our lesson: "yeah, yeah,
report cards are just spiffy, but better run that gridiron like a champ."
Now, this circumstance shows us the
reverse. If this girl had, say a talent for designing guns. I mean of
course, on paper, drawing blueprints, that sort of thing. Anybody want to
bet she'd still be in a sling with Mr. Principal? What if another child
built one of her designs? What if she did? The school can't be endorsing
this type of violent creation...heavens, no.
In all three examples, as well as some
others posted to the thread, creativity, creation and achievement, the
things our schools are by their very mission designed to instill, are
verboten by an arbitrary standard handed down by the bias of one or a few
administrators. Not a fan of handsprings? Call them dangerous and punish
them, while endorsing hockey. Don't like hockey, but love the balance
beam....by all means scratch the hockey games. This bias can be applied to
more cerebral pastimes, of course.
The main problem here is while if it was my
backyard or yours, or ABC Inc.'s school, we'd simply say "well, they set
the rules. Stop the backflips." But, see, this is the State. If we don't
like what a private group does, we pack our bags and head for the one we
do like, or like better, but not with the state. In this case, public
schools. The principal pulls a stunt like telling a student to curb her
natural abilities, we get big conflict, like we got.
I haven't forgotten about you folks who
said "well, the girl wasn't punished for backflips, she was punished cause
she wouldn't listen to the teacher." What's next? telling the sighted kids
to wear blindfolds because of the visually-impaired student? At a certain
point, one fellow was right in the thread, officials lose all their
authority when their rules display obvious bias, in this case, literally,
a child could spot it.
What's that you say? The law does this to all of us at one point or
another? We all have to put up with nonsensical rules, like the girl
should have, or we go to the slammer? True, but as one can see, our prison
population us way way up, and our society is increasingly polarized on
this issue of when its a good idea to ban behaviors which affect little
outside of ourselves, and which in turn, frequently cause ourselves to
learn the best new ways to do things.
In short, there's no moral high ground to stand on with the story of
the girl's suspension. Students should listen to teachers, and teachers
should not be so shortsighted as to stifle student talents. Barring a
utopia, it'd be nice if this girl could easily have said "Mr. Principal,
if you don't like me using my natural ability to do handsprings in school,
that's okay, my parents and I will start transferring me to a new school
tonight, but Mr. Principal, if you do this to too many students who
utilize their talents in ways you don't like, you may need to find
yourself a new job.
Kevin Ryan |
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SJEA Education: now there is an oxymoron...
Dear Board President Spence
I would be grateful if your would please forward this message to the
other board members and your Superintendent. I have already copied Ms.
Patton.
Dear Mr. Spence
I'm not so sure about the masthead on your website, or if your board
relishes its prominent future as a militant and oppressive autocracy.
I read with sadness, the absurd suspension of an eleven year old
student gymnast who was forbidden from exercising - literally and
figuratively,-her rights and improving her bodily health on your SJ=-E
campus. What were they thinking? Were they thinking?
I suspect the thong-inspector in a Southern California school two years
ago also thought she was performing some noble act when she lifted
girls' skirts to check their underwear.
One has to ask what the real motive is in this case when students are
encourage to play basketball, tag, dance, soccer, or any other physical
activity without similar repercussions. Such a draconian punishment -
suspension - warrants drug, fire arm or some more serious offenses.
What is next, expulsion for tank tops, or baseball caps?
I feel for this student who likely will suffer humiliation if not
anguish, and hopefully ultimately will receive superior learning in
spite of the formal education she is getting in an environment which
doles out such ludicrous punishment for so benign an 'offense', and I
use that term loosely. I hope she has a good attorney, and that your
distinguished school can rise from the ashes of its own pathos and
correct its errors.
SJ-E education: now there is an oxymoron.
f. data
marin county, ca
cc: LA Times, Dr. Patton, mass media, DFaegre parents
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Sunday,
November 14, 2004
2:20:02 PM
Enough Already!
11-Year-Old Takes a Tumble
Deirdre
Faegre, of West Covina, California, is just like any other
sixth-grader: exuberant, fun-loving, full of energy.
Deirdre has been taking gymnastics lessons since she was six
years old. During the lunchtime break at her school, San
Jose-Edison Academy, she enjoys doing cartwheels,
handstands, and other maneuvers she's learned.
The principal of the Academy, Denise Patton, warned Deirdre
repeatedly about doing such things on the playground. She
tried punishing the girl with lunchtime detentions, verbal
warnings, and a conference with the parents.
Nothing worked; you simply can't keep an 11-year-old from
doing something she loves to do. Finally, Ms. Patton
suspended Deirdre from school for one week, claiming
that her gymnastic moves "created an
unsafe situation for herself and others."
Ms. Patton went on to give a few examples. For instance,
she's afraid Deirdre - now remember, this child has been
taking lessons for five years - might choose to do one of
her stunts too close to a door and get whacked if someone
opens it from the other side.
Or, a passing schoolmate could accidentally walk into
Deirdre's path while she's executing a cartwheel and be
injured.
Another of Ms. Patton's worries is that other children, who
don't take gymnastics lessons and don't know how to perform
the moves, will try to copy Deirdre and wind up with
potentially serious injuries.
Uh...yeah.
DaWebmistress, who has never been the athletic type, has
fond memories of doing cartwheels, flipovers, and other
stunts on the playground of her elementary school. As she
remembers it, nearly every child in her class knew how to do
a cartwheel; it was practically a prerequsite of childhood.
No one ever told her or the other kids to stop because it
was "dangerous;" in fact, the teachers thought it was good
exercise for all of the children.
No one worried about a classmate walking into the path of
someone's cartwheel; anyone who did would have been arrested
for Felony Stupidity. The same philosophy guided the careful
avoidance of any door that might open unexpectedly. And as
for emulating each other's moves, DW's friends were in
constant competition to see who could do the most flipovers
without running out of breath. If someone else's method
looked easier, it was copied by everyone in the group.
DW's late father had a saying that he would use when she
aggravated him to the point of terminal frustration: "Kids
should be born when they're 5 years old and turn 18 on their
next birthday." This is obviously what happened to Ms.
Patton. She seems to have completely missed an era of her
life that should have been filled with the same exuberance
that Deirdre Faegre demonstrated on that playground.
But in this case, DW will let Deirdre's dad, Leland, have
the last word: "Contact sports,
apparently, are fine. But this one is so ... dangerous it
requires the cartwheel cops."
It's all right, Mr. Faegre. As far as DaWebmistress knows,
the Felony Stupidity law is still on the books, and it
applies to school principals, too.
We heard it from
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Hi Deirdre~
My name is Jennifer Parkes, and I have to say I
agree with your father that suspending you from school for doing cartwheels
and handstands is unreal. My daughter is also a competitive gymnast and has
been corrected at school dances for doing basic gymnastics stunts and even in
school for the same things. Fortunately she has never been suspended, but it
just so crazy. They are allowed to play basketball at dances and "slam dance"
but let someone stand on their hands and oohhh that's so scary it must be
dangerous.
I just wanted to say that while I'm the whole way
across the country my daughter and I both feel for you and just wanted to say
we are sorry. It would be so nice if people would take the time to understand
gymnastics and while yes it can be dangerous it is no more dangerous than
football, wrestling and other sports and they are allowed to be done on school
property during school time.
Keep your chin up!!
Jennifer |
On Behalf of Deirdre
Leland Faegrehttp://www.ontopofacloud.com Tell Deirdre to keep fighting. My daughter
in 7th grade sued her school because when she ran for president the
principal - and thus the board, said she could not engage the audience
in any way, including asking rhetorical questions. She ended up
dropping this suit, but the absurdity of this, and cases such as yours
make me want to go back to college and get a law degree in educational
justice.
From thong checks, to no free speech, to banning controversial debate
topics, to banning Halloween costumes, to no fun at lunch with
gymnastics, I am sick and tired of public educational institutions
invading declaring themselves governors of personal rights. This
includes dress codes. I fear for our schools more with this new 4
year's of Bush and the blurring of lines in church/state issues.
when cartwheels and gymnastics....and tank tops, and hats - become
larger issues than learning or free speech, we are in big trouble.
I sent my email to the LA times and to Ms. Patton. When I find the
board addresses, I will email them as well.
ok, enough venting. Best of luck to you and your daughter.
fd |
She said, "There is no reason and the truth is plain
to see."
Principal SJEA
YEP, YOUR SCHOOL IS DISTINGUISHED, ALRIGHT. But sadly, for its absurd
and draconian leadership. Suspension, gymnastics, infamy.
Education at San Jose-Edison Academy. Now there's an oxymoron.
Felice Data
Marin County, CA
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Reference:
Student suspended for handstands, cartwheels
I don't know what to say about this. I couldn't
even think of a good title for this entry. So, I'm going to just reprint the
whole article here. Hopefully
the follow-up on this story will be headlined "Principal Fired for
incompetence, idiocy."
| LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters) --
Cartwheels and handstands have gotten an 11-year-old girl temporarily
bounced out of her Los Angeles-area school. |
| Deirdre Faegre was suspended for a
week after repeatedly disobeying school officials who told her not to
perform gymnastic stunts during lunchtime. |
| "Our first concern is the safety of
all children," San Jose-Edison Academy Principal Denise Patton told
the San Gabriel Valley Tribune. |
| Patton said Deirdre could accidentally
strike another student, or injure herself, and other children could
get hurt trying to imitate Deirdre, who has been doing gymnastics for
five years. |
| Deirdre's father, Leland Faegre, said
it was absurd to suspend his daughter for doing gymnastics when
students were allowed to play basketball and other sports. |
| "Contact sports, apparently, are fine.
But this one is so dangerous it requires the cartwheel cops," Faegre
said. |
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An 11-year old girl in California was
suspended from school for performing cartwheels and handstands during
lunchtime.
Deirdre Faegre was suspended for a week after repeatedly disobeying
school officials who told her not to perform gymnastic stunts during
lunchtime.
“Our first concern is the safety of all children,” San Jose-Edison
Academy Principal Denise Patton told the San Gabriel Valley Tribune.
Patton said Deirdre could accidentally strike another student, or injure
herself, and other children could get hurt trying to imitate Deirdre, who
has been doing gymnastics for five years.
Deirdre’s father, Leland Faegre, said it was absurd to suspend his
daughter for doing gymnastics when students were allowed to play basketball
and other sports.
“Contact sports, apparently, are fine. But this one is so dangerous it
requires the cartwheel cops,” Faegre said.
Now, it seems a common defense to argue that “individual liberties” are at
risk as schoolhouse nannies strive to produce a world of the lowest common
denominator, where excellence is forbidden because others might somehow feel
bad (Harry Harrison, they thought your short story was a laudable goal!). I’m
not automatically on the girl’s side here: my first thought was that she was
performing say, in the school cafeteria. If she were, certainly it would make
sense for school officials to tell her to stop.
But it sounds like she was at recess and on the playground. And it
certainly sounds like the nannies were out in force - after all, “other
children could get hurt trying to imitate Deirdre.” They’ve already banned dodgeball and want to outlaw most contact sports - too dangerous, not
everybody can be “good” at them, etc. Meanwhile, obesity among school children
is a significant problem. I’m thinking school officials are again up to their
standard busy-body tricks: the self-esteem Nazis covering their tracks with
purported worries about “injuries.”
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There's only one possible response to this, and
Kimberly
Swygert, no slouch herself at doing the 'wheel, has already made it:
| California, California — can we talk? Someone is
not telling you what you need to hear. Apparently, you've spent
the last 30 years surrounded by snake-oil salesmen pushing bogus
child-rearing theories about self-esteem, creativity, the evils of
discipline, and the supposed fragility of children. At some point,
you've become convinced that it makes sense for the State to do
everything in its over-reaching power to prevent children from
ever encountering anything nasty, offensive, challenging,
problematic, or painful. You've become convinced that no child
should do anything unless all children can do it without fear of
any pain being involved. |
The kind of place, in other words, where
even superheroes could be sued for saving lives.
Rock on, Dr. Swygert. And Deirdre — when you make the Olympic team come
2012 (2008?), make sure you forget to mention where you went to school.
They don't deserve you.
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2004.11.12
少女、側転をして放校に
禁止されていた逆立ちや側転を昼休みにくりかえしていたとして、ロスアンゼルスに住む Deirdre
Faegreちゃん(11)が小学校から一時放校となった、
サンホセ・エジソン・アカデミーのデニス・パットン校長は「何より心配なのは子供たちの安全です。」とし、 Faegreちゃんがほかの生徒にぶつかったり、彼女自身がけがをしたり、彼女をまねた生徒がけがをする可能性にふれた。 Deirdreちゃんは体操競技を5年間続けている。
Deirdreちゃんの父親リーランドさんはバスケや他のスポーツは許されているのに体操が許されないのはばかばかしいと述べている。 (Reuters)【吉】
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Den wrote...
I've always been a firm believer that whenever an authority figure is an idiot, they forfeit all of their authority.
If that isn't inviting this to become another political thread, I don't know what is =)
It's interesting that the one article mentions another side of the story, but I can't figure out what that could be. Of course, the school would have the right to ask the girl to stop if her actions were overly dangerous, as has been mentioned, but I'm not sure "cartwheels and handstands" qualify.