VIDEO: Japanese TV Amazed At Children's Game "Tag" Suspended (Massachusetts) [Streaming Clip]

JNN News Tokyo (in Japanese) short video clip 300k ^ | 20 October 2006 | JNN News Tokyo (Video Clip)

[AmericanInTokyo]

The stupidity of the Massachusetts school decision to 'outlaw' such children's games as "tag" at school has hit the news in Japan.

(VIDEO REPORT ON TONIGHT'S NEWS IN JAPAN)

There is a slight tone of incredulousness.

Clip at above URL link and here:

http://meta.cdn.yahoo-streaming.jp/cgi-bin/yahoo/news.asx?cid=20061020-00000066-jnn-int-movie-001&media=wm300k

Puzzled parents interviewed, too. The clip will be up for a few more hours...

[JimSEA]

The Thai people have a love of offbeat and weird news and America's legal system keeps them amused!!

[piasa]

I think I'll stick with baseball.

[green iguana]

Just turn your back for a minute and they'll be driving SUVs and having their tongue pierced.

Here in Austin, the kids wait 'til second grade for that.

[piasa]

There you go. Great game.

[Holicheese]

We convinced our aged Gym teacher, Mr Pauli, to allow us to play bombardment with frisbees. The game would be enshrined with his name, Paulie Ball, after he retired.
The game lasted exactly 13 seconds when a girl took a frisbee off the bridge of the nose. Kind of like Marsha Brady getting hit in the nose by the football.
She too would never become a teen model.

[zook]

Here is the school email address. I suggest people to write respectful letters of disapproval to Mrs. Heppe.

For example, I will tell her that were I a parent, student, or teacher at her school, I would organize active resistance to her decision. Quite frankly, I don't believe schools have the moral or legal right to impose a permanent ban on tag or touch football during recess.

willettschool@attleboroschools.com

[RegulatorCountry]

Competitve games are viewed as "bad" because some kids aren't good at it and might feel disenfranchised. This, from the collective "mind" that rejects archaic notions of good and bad, lol.

[piasa]

At least they weren't throwing stars.

[hardworking]

True story: This past Saturday an acquaintance who is originally from Hungary told me that her mother was an elementary school teacher in Hungary and there was always a government representative sitting in the back of the classroom to monitor to make sure she never said anything negative about the Communist regime, or said anything to the children that was not 'approved'. This is the direction in which we are heading - robot (translation: moronic) teachers to produce robot children.

[Dick Bachert]

And what else could one reasonably expect from the morons up there who continually reelect THIS moron (and his slightly thinner clone, Kerry)?

[piasa]

We used to play smear the queer on a kind of square skateboard. It was like a cross between dodgeball and bumper cars and we squished a lot of fingers. For some reason that wasn't a big deal.

[TruthFactor]

Get used to it. Massachusetts is screwed up.

It's not just Massachusetts. It's part of the "New and effeminate America". Get used to seeing more idiocies like this.

[dpa5923]

Source? Are is this your opionon on why the game tag was banned on school grounds?

[LexBaird]

Should I even bother to ask if they allow kids to play "Smear the Queer" in Massachusetts?

Probably not. It is, however, the most popular game among Democrat dirty tricks operatives in DC this season.

[LexBaird]

Just turn your back for a minute and they'll be driving SUVs and having their tongue pierced.

Hey, I pierced my lip when I was 10. Of course, I was playing tag/swordfight with a stick at the time...

[LexBaird]

This is the direction in which we are heading - robot (translation: moronic) teachers to produce robot children.

Robot means "worker". The modern context comes from a classic SF short story, "R.U.R.", which stood for Rossum's Universal Robots.

[VOA]

they are capitalistic and 99% percent homogeneous racially.

Just from what I know in working with expat Japanese and having
friends that live/work there...
I'd inexpertly say the Japanese are capitalistic in the aggregate,
somewhat socialist given their strong social contract for long-term employment
and other social niceties.

The long-term employment thing has slacked a bit in the last decade,
as companies do actually let people go more often during downtime
or reorganization. But that was a rude shock when it started to happen.


I guess one doesn't need cheap immigrant labor and multiculturalism to
have a successful society.

Sure. A harmonious and productive society can be built with a homogeneous
population.

But there are pragmatic advantages to having a diverse population.
Such as having people in your population that can "think like"
foreigners we end up going to war with...e.g., the Japanese in WWII.
(yes, some of that brain-power wasn't harnessed as FDR had a lot of
the Japanese-Americans locked up).

And not to sound like a eugenics person, there's good sense to
"hybrid vigor" and lessening the appearance of debilitating
genetic traits.

Myself, I'd go with something like a Switzerland as a good model;
multiple language with populations form varying areas, and plenty productive
and harmonious.

[VeniVidiVici]

What seems to come out of the state of Massachusetts and pass for common sense amazes me these days:

Wasn't it Mass. where some community also banned keeping score at kids' soccer games?

[RSmithOpt]

"Hurry!!! Hurry!!! Hurry!!! Step right up! Be the first to come up with new ideas to protect the idiots. Get a well deserved Atta-Boy from the PC Left!"

I reckon most in public service in Taxachusettes would rather spend time coming up with such ideas to prevent children from exercising and find ways to raise the burden on the taxpayer than to investigate and correct the corruption and incompetence of the adults for which like, The Big Dig and many many other spending fiasco's hurt a lot more kids than tag ever will.

[Joe 6-pack]

"Kids being kids now illegal in America."

No doubt, some octogenarian Japanese warrior is filled with regret that his nation did not have the patience to wait 60 years and attack this generation instead. If indeed Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton, we'll have no way of knowing which of our future battles may be lost on the playing fields of Massachussetts. The feminist/pacifist takeover of our culture will be the end of our nation as we know it.