Toronto school bans students from playing with “hard balls” at recess

Toronto school bans students from playing with “hard balls” at recess. They’re not talking about banning Chris Matthew’s sparsely-watched show but “soccer balls, footballs, volleyballs and tennis balls.” The only kind of balls allowed will be nerf balls or sponge balls… you know, the kind of things many modern educators use for brains.

This post was last modified on February 1, 2021

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