Persuasive Essay: Dodgeball Stays Wrong With Schools

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Dodgeball Stays What is wrong with schools these days? Principals removed a game that has been around since my parents were in school. Elkton, Maryland took away dodgeball, and countless other games that were deemed “unsafe”. But in reality they are sucking the fun from childhood. To accomplish this they removed the program from the curriculum. I think that dodgeball should stay.

The school says that the sport leads to bullying, but as school board member Dennis Senibaldi says "We have rules that are set in place to deal with bullying," he said. "We don't need to ban an entire round of games just to enforce those rules." Even if a kid was bullied while playing dodgeball the school should know how to deal with it instead of banning a whole