The on-going debate of dodgeball as an acceptable physical education activity seems endless. Reeducating physical education teachers toward current best practices has proven a difficult task. Many teachers continue to include dodgeball in their yearly activities and defend it as a curriculum choice by asserting that important basic skills such as dodging, throwing, and catching are part of the game. Other support statements include, "the students enjoy it," "we only use soft balls," or "we modify the rules so children are not eliminated." In this article, the author contends that, although those who defend dodgeball as an appropriate activity can find ways to justify its inclusion in the curriculum according to the current National Standards, these same people might respond differently if asked to write an additional Standard that would eliminate controversy by legitimizing dodgeball and other games like it. The overall purpose of the National Standards is to provide a framework for preparing quality physical education curriculums that result in "physically educated person(s)."