{"id":22942,"date":"2013-11-13T10:21:32","date_gmt":"2013-11-13T15:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=22942"},"modified":"2013-11-13T10:21:32","modified_gmt":"2013-11-13T15:21:32","slug":"bc-school-bans-kindergarten-kids-touching-each-other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/11\/13\/bc-school-bans-kindergarten-kids-touching-each-other\/","title":{"rendered":"BC school bans kindergarten kids touching each other"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently Coghlan Fundamental Elementary School in Aldergrove has had a rash of injuries to kindergarten students recently, so the solution is to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theprovince.com\/news\/Aldergrove+school+tells+kindergarten+kids+Hands+each+other\/9124456\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\">ban all physical contact between students<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A letter went out to Coghlan kindergarten students\u2019 parents on Friday, one of those types that often sit in backpack over a weekend or are put aside to be read later and somehow never are.<\/p>\n<p>Julie Chen found the letter, explaining a new no-touch policy for kindergarten students, on Monday morning as she was packing lunch for her five-year-old daughter.<\/p>\n<p>It reads, in part: \u201cWe have unfortunately had to ban all forms of hands-on play for the immediate future &#8230; we will have a zero-tolerance policy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Penalties for making physical contact with a schoolmate include being grounded during play time and\/or a trip to the office \u201cfor those who are unable to follow the rules.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI read the letter, it said there had been quite a few injuries, I said, \u2018OK,\u2019 and kept reading,\u201d Chen said. \u201cWhen I saw no hands-on would be allowed, I just got mad, I got so upset.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>School employee Arthur Bourke drove up in his van and was happy to defend the policy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know how anyone would be against this,\u201d Bourke said. \u201cThey\u2019re trying to make it safe for everybody.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey do a terrific job here of making sure everyone is safe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s something we have to do \u2014 if we don\u2019t control it, it will get out of hand.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The letter to parents cited \u201cseveral injuries\u201d in the past few weeks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently Coghlan Fundamental Elementary School in Aldergrove has had a rash of injuries to kindergarten students recently, so the solution is to ban all physical contact between students: A letter went out to Coghlan kindergarten students\u2019 parents on Friday, one of those types that often sit in backpack over a weekend or are put aside [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,79],"tags":[52,491,374],"class_list":["post-22942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-education","tag-absurd","tag-bc","tag-children"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-5Y2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22942"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22944,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22942\/revisions\/22944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}