Re: [Phys-L] Instructional resources (Was: Indicators of quality teaching)

[John Caranci <johncaranci@rogers.com>]

Yes, a number of Toronto schools have suspended football and hockey due to injury and cost but mostly to the soccer craze; Toronto being such a Huge multicultural community.

John Caranci
OISE Physics Teaching Instructor

On 2013-07-07, at 5:30 PM, rjensen@ualberta.ca wrote:

> > THE DEBATE continues here though. If one person is hurt in outdoor Ed: do you shut down the programme??
>
> There are more debilitating injuries in the local high school football
> program than in high school science in North America. 
>
> From my kids' school: two compound fractures, three diagnosed
> concussions, and about a dozen torn muscles and ligaments. (It was
> stated that it was a bad year, with about double the number of serious
> injuries.) 
>
> If administration applies the same idiocracy to the football program
> as they do to science: play virtual football (a.k.a Madden Football)
> with other teams over the internet. Consider the savings in uniforms,
> safety gear, and travel!!! 
>
> Dr. Roy Jensen
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