At the school the second graders participate in a program called RAD Kids, where they have a police officer and some helpers come teach them about self defense against ‘bad guys’. You know people that go around picking up kids that don’t belong to them? I don’t know very much about the program actually, but Ethan’s teacher called me last night to invite me to the ‘graduation’. So I took my 3 little kiddos and went to the school to see what I could see. The helpers had set up a bit of a course with three points. At the first stop the kids had to block these big soft things as the helper tried to bonk them. Then at the next stop they kids had to beat up on a dummy. The last stop was the most tricky. The police officer was all dressed up in red pads from his head to his feet, and his job was to try to ‘attack’ or stop the kid from getting to their teacher. The kids then had to do whatever self defense moves they could to get away from him. The kids went through the course one at a time and there was actually only one that got past the officer without him catching them. I thought it funny that it was a little girl.
Before going through the course the kids had to get all geared up with helmets, gloves, knee pads and elbow pads. Ethan was doing just fine sitting and waiting for his turn. But as soon as it became his turn he just seemed to become limp and didn’t want to do it. Here he is getting geared up and REALLY not looking happy.
So they didn’t make him go through the course. Here is Ethan’s whole class after they all went through the course. Ethan is still not looking happy….
