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Massachusetts School Bans Tag Amid Fears of Injuries, Lawsuits
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| Wednesday, October 18, 2006
| AP
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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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: pc; pccrap
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To: Clint N. Suhks
Not going to lie...I thought of the body spray at first....lol
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posted on
10/18/2006 8:28:22 AM PDT
by
Blue Scourge
(C-17, anything, on time all the time.)
To: Clint N. Suhks
Massachusetts, what a surprise.
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posted on
10/18/2006 8:28:25 AM PDT
by
Clint N. Suhks
(If you don't love Jesus, you can go to hell.)
To: Blue Scourge
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posted on
10/18/2006 8:29:53 AM PDT
by
Clint N. Suhks
(If you don't love Jesus, you can go to hell.)
To: Clint N. Suhks
Guess Tort Reform never crossed their minds, huh?
Lets just banned kids from getting any kind of exercise from running around
And then complain when they are all over weight
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posted on
10/18/2006 8:30:15 AM PDT
by
Mo1
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To: Clint N. Suhks
And then they will wonder why the kids will be climbing the walls with unburned energy....and dope 'em up.
Besides, how else is the fat kid going to learn how to run fast...
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posted on
10/18/2006 8:31:17 AM PDT
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
To: Mo1
"And then complain when they are all over weight"
And let's not even talk about unruly and lacking in social skills.
This is going on at my kids' school too. It's absolutely absurd how they insulted our intelligence by telling us it was for the childrens' safety!
No one is more pi$$ed than the kids!!
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posted on
10/18/2006 8:32:42 AM PDT
by
RedRightReturn
(Even a broken clock is right twice a day...)
To: Clint N. Suhks
Maybe they'll be safer, but will they fatter? I thought obesity was the most dangerous thing affecting our kids today. Now kids can't even run on the playground because they might skin a knee. I wonder if there were more Dads involved in PTA if there would be this banning of all "ball" sports.
To: Clint N. Suhks
Normally I blame schools for stupid policy decisions but in this case, I have to blame lawyers.
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posted on
10/18/2006 8:32:49 AM PDT
by
HEY4QDEMS
(Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.)
To: Clint N. Suhks
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posted on
10/18/2006 8:34:03 AM PDT
by
Ready4Freddy
(Everyone knows there's a difference between Muslims and terrorists. No one knows what it is, tho...)
To: Blue Scourge
Is it still legal to play tag the fag in Mass? /s
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posted on
10/18/2006 8:34:22 AM PDT
by
MAD-AS-HELL
(How to win over terrorists? KILL them with UNKINDNESS.)
To: Clint N. Suhks
Who said this country has not lost control of its judicial processes?? Frivolous law? Naw.....and who benefits? Yes, the people who have fostered it, and support it -- the lawyers and the courts.....
Well even the Clintons, Bonnie and Clyde, knew the judiciary was the only was to move for absolute power...they tried, did a pretty good job of redesigning the federal system with their stooges.....always keep an eye on the judiciary....and the Congress for that matter.
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posted on
10/18/2006 8:34:31 AM PDT
by
EagleUSA
To: Clint N. Suhks
Any activity in which there will be winners and losers will be banned.
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posted on
10/18/2006 8:35:07 AM PDT
by
WorkerbeeCitizen
(Religion of peace my arse - We need a maintenance Crusade)
To: Blue Scourge
Me too. What next? A claim of someone having cooties will bring about a lawsuit?
Ah... this just in. As I'm posting this, I wanted to do some quick research on cooties before hitting the commit button and I just found this entry in Wikipedia. Funny how everything comes full circle:
Another standard cure is to transmit the cooties to someone else. This etiology has found its way into games of tag, which are occasionally described in terms of spreading cooties.
So there you have it. By outlawing tag, you remove the ability to heal yourself from cooties! What will the CDC and WHO have to say about that?! ;-)
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posted on
10/18/2006 8:35:18 AM PDT
by
RedCell
("...thou shalt kill thine enemy before he killeth you by any means available" - Dick Marcinko)
To: Mo1
The PC elementary school Clint Jr. went to they had to play "Tag the opposite gender".
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posted on
10/18/2006 8:35:46 AM PDT
by
Clint N. Suhks
(If you don't love Jesus, you can go to hell.)
To: MAD-AS-HELL
wonder when they'll ban teachers lest they molest...
(said not in jest)
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posted on
10/18/2006 8:36:04 AM PDT
by
Rakkasan1
((Illegal immigrants are just undocumented friends you haven't met yet!))
To: Clint N. Suhks
Recess is "a time when accidents can happen," said Willett Elementary School Principal Gaylene HeppeAnd I bet Gaylene... can snug a condom on a cucumber like nobody's business.
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posted on
10/18/2006 8:36:23 AM PDT
by
johnny7
(“And what's Fonzie like? Come on Yolanda... what's Fonzie like?!”)
To: MAD-AS-HELL
Is it still legal to play tag the fag in Mass? /sHaving spent a few years growing in California we used to play Smear the Queer at recess. Just pick up the ball and don't get tackled. What fun and when the bell rang to go back to class we were definately ready to just sit down and listen.
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posted on
10/18/2006 8:36:50 AM PDT
by
New Perspective
(Proud father of an 2 year old son with Down Syndrome)
To: Clint N. Suhks
A few years ago, my daughter broke her arm playing on the monkey bars during school recess. It was actually the second broken arm in her particular 2nd grade class on that particular piece of equiptment within a month. I didn't know those facts at the time but even now still consider it an accident.
For days I had calls from the school board, the principal and the teacher telling me how concerned they were for my daughter and offering any help they could. When I told the principal that I was not taking legal action the phone calls of concern stopped.
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posted on
10/18/2006 8:39:28 AM PDT
by
Republican Red
("There’s God, then there’s the president and then there's my father.”- 6 yr old Jack Roberts)
To: Clint N. Suhks
Yep, this is a great idea. We had over 2,763 deaths last year from kids playing tag, 87,456 from kids playing touch football, 22,392 from playing kickball, and over 367,945 from cutting paper and ribbons on art projects! What bulls*** will they come up with next? Someone needs to fire a school principal for sheer stupidity.
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posted on
10/18/2006 8:40:10 AM PDT
by
geezerwheezer
(get up boys, we're burnin' daylight!!!)
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