-- BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA -- A school in northern Australia will review a ban on cartwheels, handstands and other gymnastic tumbles in the playground after a community backlash, the state education department said Wednesday.Fortunately, this one may get nipped in the bud.
Kylie Buschgens said her 10-year-old daughter had been punished for doing cartwheels, even on the grass, after students were told of the ban at a recent assembly.
On Tuesday, Education Minister Rod Welford suggested the school should overturn its decision.Just ask Jericho Scott.
“I think the decision by the principal in Townsville the other day was prompted by the fact that increasingly we as a community are wrapping our children in cotton wool,” Mr. Welford said. “I think our generation of parents are mollycoddling their children.”
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