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| real playground jungle jim - if you fell it hurt |
It's of a piece with grade inflation and all the children are above average. I failed 4th grade arithmetic. Had a nervous breakdown over fractions. My solution? The decimal system. Everything converts into %. Should they have told me it was OK, that I just needed a little help. No. The failure was instructive - but you can see the seeds even there. I got an E- 5. E instead of F. 5 for lack of effort. That was wrong. I was trying. My brain just didn't compute. Even now 5/16 x 11/32 makes me nervous. - GWC
Can a Playground Be Too Safe? - NYTimes.com: "When seesaws and tall slides and other perils were disappearing from New York’s playgrounds, Henry Stern drew a line in the sandbox. As the city’s parks commissioner in the 1990s, he issued an edict concerning the 10-foot-high jungle gym near his childhood home in northern Manhattan.
“I grew up on the monkey bars in Fort Tryon Park, and I never forgot how good it felt to get to the top of them,” Mr. Stern said. “I didn’t want to see that playground bowdlerized. I said that as long as I was parks commissioner, those monkey bars were going to stay.”
His philosophy seemed reactionary at the time, but today it’s shared by some researchers who question the value of safety-first playgrounds."
“I grew up on the monkey bars in Fort Tryon Park, and I never forgot how good it felt to get to the top of them,” Mr. Stern said. “I didn’t want to see that playground bowdlerized. I said that as long as I was parks commissioner, those monkey bars were going to stay.”
His philosophy seemed reactionary at the time, but today it’s shared by some researchers who question the value of safety-first playgrounds."
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