When kids play, sometimes they fall—maybe they even cry—but most of the time, they just get right back up. But one school in northern Ontario, Canada is trying to prevent playground injuries by banning... cartwheels.

M.T. Davidson Public School, in the town of Callander, just released its proposal for the 2017-2018 handbook of playground rules, and parents were surprised to find cartwheels listed as one of the prohibited activities. While there were no recent injuries that prompted the ban, Principal Todd Gribbon says he is still worried, reports the Ottawa Citizen.

"For me I'm always concerned about student safety," he told Guelph Today. "We want to make the school as safe a place as possible. There's potential for a concussion, wrist or neck injuries when students are performing these acts without proper supervision. So that's what the thinking was around the cartwheel [ban]."

While the handbook is still in "draft form," many parents of children at the school say they are not happy about the ban.

"I think it's ridiculous," mother Ashley Thivierge told Guelph Today. "They should be able to do cartwheels. I don't see any harm in it, they're not hurting themselves. It's part of physical activity." Others believe the ban is overprotective and ultimately won't prevent playground mishaps.

The school advisory committee is set to meet on October 2 to review the handbook, so there is still chance the ban will be lifted. "We're always willing to talk and listen to people and the idea that kids will be kids is important to me as well, but we also want them to be safe," Gibbons told Guelph Today.

This actually isn't the first time cartwheels have been prohibited on the playground—a primary school in Perth, Australia recently enacted a similar rule and a school in the United Kingdom banned all "gymnastic activities" in 2015.

(h/t Ottawa Citizen)

Courtney Campbell Courtney is a web editorial fellow for CountryLiving.com and WomansDay.com.

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