[Redcitizen]

It's for the children/sarc

[xtinct]

TAG ???? Jeepers!!! That's such a sissy game.

I use to hop freight trains, tie my sled to cars, climb to the top of billboards, climb up to the repair shelf under the train tracks to drop water balloons on unsuspecting pedestrians, etc.

Yeah, I know - today I would be on Ritalin for life. Mom and Dad would be charged with neglect or worse.

[sean327]

We used to play tackle football, and it's other variation; Smear the Queer. We are turning our boys into fat sniveling lumps, who don't have any way of channeling their natural aggression. When a society decides it's best to "Dope em'up and coop em' up" it brings us that much closer to our downfall.

[SuziQ]

I'm not surprised by this at all. MA is such a Nanny State, because of the liberal goobers who run things at all levels.

[Major_Risktaker]

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.

My favorite game in 7th & 8th grade was Buck Buck. I must admit I had more fun and freedom in private schools than public. .

Our Buck Buck was a modified version with almost anything goes rules as we smashed our forearms into our school mates backs upon landing. Nun's never came over to bust our chops.

This is playground fun!

Buck Buck...

[madison10]

Add to the list: Ban recess. Ban two snacks. Ban having your own supplies. Ban wearing a cross. Ban prayer. Ban parents from finding out what's going on. Heck, just ban the children and be done with it. Of course, some of the children were pre-banned before they ever GOT to school.

Don't Ban: teaching kids that a homosexual lifestyle is natural and good.

[CT-Freeper]

I don't blame the school as much as I blame the pro-lawsuit mentality of many Americans. One could get sued for the slightest of offenses now days.

[polymuser]

The real issue: teachers can not tolerate any competition.

VOUCHERS!

[Hugin]

Our lunchtime recess favorite at my elementary school was "War". Most of the boys in school would congregate in roughly equal groups on opposite sides lower baseball field. Then about ten minutes before class resumed the sides would charge each other, tackle and wrestle the other side to the ground. Amazingly nobody was killed, paralized, or had their self-esteem permannetly damaged. But of course there were fewer lawyers back then, and there were actually men involved in running the schools. Today K-6 schools are almost exclusively the provice of women.

[Former MSM Viewer]

Oh, the torment of being "It"

[Cicero]

Blame it on the lawyers. Or, if you like, the evil axis of lawyers and liberals, working hand in hand.

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

Typical leftist garbage.

[MEGoody]

:::Sigh::: Childhood sure isn't what it used to be. No wonder kids are fatter and more stressed than we were.

[Alfonso1000]

The sechool is obviously being ridiculous, but the real blame lies with the courts and our sue happy society. I can see why the school is afraid of getting sued.