Posted on 10/18/2006 8:27:28 AM PDT by Clint N. Suhks
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.
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And they wonder why US is losing its competitive edge.
I don't know - but Smear the Queer seems to be popular on FR!
Take that lesson away from kids and in 15 years we'll have adults walking into lamposts!
What's exclusionary about it? If you're willing to go in there and get hit with the ball without snivelling about it then you can play.
Why don't they just cut to the chase and ban kids.
Why don't they just cut to the chase and ban kids.
I think it would be great if the children did a little civil disobedience. I mean what if suddenly there were kids playing tag all over the place? Is the school really willing to suspend children for playing? How ridiculous are they going to look for doing that? It is a sad world when children have more common sense then adults.
The other thing is maybe all the kids could pretend they got stabbed with their pencils. By the school's own logic, the school would then have to ban pencils. And let's not forget the danger of running with scissors, eating paste, chewing crayons, glitter in the eye, paper cuts, cafeteria food and exposure to eraser dust. Yep school is just full of hazards. Best shut the things down pronto.
They'll have a class on it -- in a controlled atmosphere. I recall reading maybe five years ago about a high school that instituted a class on dealing with failure. IIRC, in their PC grammar school, these kids had never faced a failure and couldn't cope when it came up in high school.
But kids can be killed in school by insane gunmen and the schools could be held liable.
Close the public schools.
H*ll you can fall and break you arm walking across a parking lot completely sober! Really!
MORONS
The kids will always find something else to keep them occupied. My 13 yr old son and his buddies play a nice benign game called 'quarters'. They sit in a circle with one kid putting his knuckles on the ground and another firing a quarter at his knuckles. The point? See who can get the bloodiest knuckles. Tag seems a heckuva lot safer. I haven't asked him what the big bag of rubberbands in his backpack is for.....
So are they going to substitute "Malign the Milquetoast?"
My wife works at a small private school in VA, and its recess area has virtually no swings, etc. It does have a sandpit.
No tag, no football, no nothing. Too many dadburned lawyers in America - and the law schools are still chock full!
I suppose playing "smear the queer" would be out of the question too.
I had to take that class three times! The tests were really, really hard. And I kept missing the final because I was in the hospital waiting for my wrists to heal up.
The faggification of America's children continues apace . . .
A bunch of friggin' girly men! How can men especially condone this crap? I would have gone completely insane if not for recess? What idots!
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