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We are raising a nation full of sissified lard-asses:
School bans kids from playing tag
October 18, 2006
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ATTLEBORO, Mass. — Tag, you’re out!
Officials at an elementary school south of Boston have banned kids from playing tag, touch football and any other unsupervised chase game during recess for fear they’ll get hurt and hold the school liable.
Recess is “a time when accidents can happen,” said Willett Elementary School Principal Gaylene Heppe, who approved the ban.
While there is no districtwide ban on contact sports during recess, local rules have been cropping up. Several school administrators around Attleboro, a city of about 45,000 residents, took aim at dodgeball a few years ago, saying it was exclusionary and dangerous.
Elementary schools in Cheyenne, Wyo., and Spokane, Wash., also recently banned tag during recess. A suburban Charleston, S.C., school outlawed all unsupervised contact sports.
“I think that it’s unfortunate that kids’ lives are micromanaged and there are social skills they’ll never develop on their own,” said Debbie Laferriere, who has two children at Willett, about 40 miles south of Boston. “Playing tag is just part of being a kid.”
Another Willett parent, Celeste D’Elia, said her son feels safer because of the rule. “I’ve witnessed enough near collisions,” she said.
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The best thing you could do for the health of this nation is to ban Insurance companies and lawyers! Removing tag? Sheesh! Someone needs to go up there and bop some heads!
I gotta agree. I mean, how is Best Buy supposed to make their quarterly earnings estimates if kids are out playing tag instead of on Xbox 360?? Not only is tag bad for the kids' injury rates, it's bad just plain bad for the American economy.*
*This advertisement was paid for by XBox, Best Buy, and the Coalition of Cardiac Surgeons.
I, for one, am happy as hell to see these bans. There is an awful lot of money being spent replacing these kids' cell phones, Blackberrys and MP3 players when they get ruined in one of these foolish games.
__________________ In Fitness & Friendship, MAHLER
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Everyone is so sue-happy these days..I'm surprised they are allowed to do anything in school anymore.
When I was in grade school I ended up with stitches in the back of my head from being pushed on the playground (we were playing..I wasn't in a fight:p ). My parents never thought of suing anyone over it.
Yeah, that anti-dodgeball crusade was bullcrap. Dodgeball was by far the funnest sport we ever did in Gym. I'd take dodgeball over basketball and football any day.
And that ban on tag's pretty silly. I might understand a teacher breaking up a game of, say, Street Ball (a redneck game if there ever was one), but not something with only a small chance of any major injury.
What about the effects this will have on the obesity 'epidemic'? Tag is one of the few physically active games kids can participate in at school, since they banned football and (I can only assume) foothockey.
I remember playing games like RED-ASS, where kids are getting tennis balls thrown at them, WITH THE INTENTION OF CAUSING PHYSICAL HARM. Games like tag and manhunt were our peacekeeping games.
Once again it all boils down to money.
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Unless and until good parents step forward and face the fucking lawsuit crazy assholes of this world, and take back our schools, things will only get worse. Teachers have been stripped of the ability to discipline and keep order, let alone teach. Principals and administration spend their time being public relations specialists trying to keep the whiners at bay and avoid lawsuits. Many schools are forced to teach to the lowest common denominator or simply to pass an achievement test and the kids who want to learn get short changed. Now, even our children's play time and recreation are under siege in a quest for a perfect world where the prospect of an occasional scratch or bruise causes a run to the nearest attorney.
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Everyone is so sue-happy these days..I'm surprised they are allowed to do anything in school anymore.
When I was in grade school I ended up with stitches in the back of my head from being pushed on the playground (we were playing..I wasn't in a fight:p ). My parents never thought of suing anyone over it.
Ian..you sure we didn't go to the same school???
I didn't push the girls! More like pinched and patted... ok, the ocassional outright grab too!
Of course, maybe you were that one that didn't run as fast as the other girls... on purpose... *cough*...
What about the effects this will have on the obesity 'epidemic'? Tag is one of the few physically active games kids can participate in at school, since they banned football and (I can only assume) foothockey.
I remember playing games like RED-ASS, where kids are getting tennis balls thrown at them, WITH THE INTENTION OF CAUSING PHYSICAL HARM. Games like tag and manhunt were our peacekeeping games.
Once again it all boils down to money.
My kids played RED-ASS all the time in Michigan. The parents knew and if a kid got hurt, too bad, you shouldn't be playing RED-ASS. My son Jake was pretty good at it.
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Tag and football and dodgeball... all great training for life. You learned to avoid the stupid kids who fling their arms around wildly, or who try to hurt other kids. You learned how to avoid pain, how to play with and around others, how to read other people... Fucking life is like that! Drive down a major road in any city at rush hour and see if you don't play "dodgeball" with the other cars.
Is redass like butts-up? Drop the ball and everyone tries to bean you with it. If they get you, you go up against the wall with your butt in the air as target practice?
OMG, OMG all the risks I took in my youth. It's a miracle I still have all my limbs. We played "elevated tag", it's the same thing as tag but anything higher then the ground is sanctuary. To think I spend the largest part of recess running and jumping on and off of things!
When it rained, we played socker-squash. When that ball bounced off the wall and hit you, it would really hurt. At 13 things got even nastier as chestnut-fights became part of the agenda.
My kids played RED-ASS all the time in Michigan. The parents knew and if a kid got hurt, too bad, you shouldn't be playing RED-ASS. My son Jake was pretty good at it.
Kids can't say "ass" in Alabama, so they don't play that here.
Is redass like butts-up? Drop the ball and everyone tries to bean you with it. If they get you, you go up against the wall with your butt in the air as target practice?
It's similar. One kid throws a ball against the side of the school. If you catch it, you throw the ball against the wall and so forth. If a kid tries to catch it off the wall and drops it, he has to go up against the wall face first. The kid who last threw the ball gets to throw the ball at the kid. He's supposed to try to hit the kid's ass but often tries for a head shot.
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