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Now even basic physical exercise is being banned at our public schools: this girl was suspended for doing cartwheels.
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http://www.local6.com/news/3913357/detail.html
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An 11-year-old girl in West Covina, Calif., was suspended from her school from doing "dangerous" cartwheels and hand stands during lunch time, according to a Local 6 News report.
- Deirdre Faegre, who is a Student of the Month at San Jose-Edison Academy in West Covina was dismissed from the school this week after school authorities warned her for the last time to stop doing gymnastic stunts during lunchtime.
- Administrators at the school said they were concerned about safety of their students.
- They said gymnastics on the playground creates an unsafe situation.
- "I thought they were absolutely weird, because I see other kids playing baseball and soccer and I think that's more dangerous than gymnastics," Faegre said.
- Deirdre's parents are giving the school's actions a failing grade.
- The family says they'll continue to stand by their daughter.
- "I don't think they care about the children at all," father Leland Faegre said.
- "What sort of a parent or administrator would ever enforce a rule that would proscribe a child from using her arms and her legs?
- We have got to fix this mess because we have to let children be children."
- Her parents said they will home school Deirdre until they find a more "reasonable" school.
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