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Citizen complaint of the day: Not to jump to any conclusions, but these West Roxbury hopscotch boards are just wrong
By adamg on Thu, 05/08/2014 - 7:48am
A concerned citizen counts to ten before complaining about the two incorrect hopscotch boards at Draper Park, off Washington Street in West Roxbury. With a photo of a correct hopscotch setup at the Kilmer School.
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*boggled*
Its not that its 'incorrect', it just looks unfinished.
Its still usable and at least numbers are correct and in the right order!
not technically incorrect - but over-simplified to uselessness
Can't see this challenging any kid older than 4 or 5 for more than a few seconds. On the other hand, complaining to the city is silly if you actually want it fixed before your kid is grown. The practical solution is obvious - a couple local parents should just get some masking tape, some outdoor paint, and paint a better one.
The same thing happened at my daughter's old school. They redid the playground, and mostly did a great job, but they painted in new hopscotch and foursquare fields that were too small. The kids adapted their foursquare game, but stopped playing with the hopscotch field.
Nice early morning Office
Nice early morning Office Space reference!
Damn you
Obama!
Rarely is the question asked:
Rarely is the question asked: is our children learning?
By
George I hope so.
No such thing as wrong
Google "hopscotch" and you'll notice many variations of the hopscotch board, all of which are correct.
That is not wrong
The complainer is just from a different hopscotch denomination. Celebrate diversity!
Die Heretic!
Great Lakes Regional Hopscotch Council of 1879 or Great Lakes Regional Hopscotch Council of 1912?
People's Hopscotch Front of
People's Hopscotch Front of Judea!
Splitters!
We're the Judean Hopscotch People's Front!
Aherm.
Hopscotch Peoples Front of Judea here. Don't listen to those PHFoJ quacks.
More playground discrimination.....
I always knew JP had the more complete hopscotch layouts than their West Roxbury counterparts.