Program On Children And Sports Injuries

By MELISSA MASON

Published: Sep 01, 2000 12:00 AM

WATERBURY â More than 30 million children participate in organized sports in the United states. However, each year more than three-quarters of a million children ages 14 and under are treated in hospital emergency rooms for sports-related injuries.

Children are at greater risk than adults from sports and recreational injuries since they are unable to assess the risks involved and have less coordination, slower reaction times, and less accuracy. Join orthopedic surgeon John Keggi, MD; Eileen Henzy, the coordinator of Connecticut Safe Kids; and a sports care representative for âDonât Let Your Child be Sidelined! Preventing Sports Injuries,â on Thursday, September 21, at 7 pm in Waterbury Hospitalâs Bizzozero Conference Room. The panel will discuss appropriate protective equipment, safe playing conditions, and safety rules parents need to keep in mind to prevent sports injury.

The forum is free. Pre-registration is required. Call 203/575-5200.

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I have seen Mr. Pisani repeatedly assert in the pages of the Bee that Newtown schools are "testing at a failing 64.9%". I'd be curious if he could elaborate on this statistic, as I have been unable to verify it independently. Which test exactly is our school system failing? How do our schools compare to other towns? How does our score compare to historical measures? It's very hard to draw conclusions from a single data point, so here are a few more data points to think about for context: Newtown is consistently ranked among the top 20 school districts in CT by the US News and World Report and Niche, which consider a range of performance metrics in their rankings; on average, Newtown students perform similar to, if not better than, students in neighboring school districts on standardized math and reading tests; the only data point on the CT Department of Education District Report Card where Newtown "fails" -- that is, falls behind the state average -- is access to art instruction. I'm glad the council member has acknowledged in this letter what taxpayers in high-performing (and high-spending) school districts like Darien, New Canaan, and Westport already know: "School funding does impact student achievement." Please keep that in mind when you vote this week!

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