Posted on 02/10/2007 8:46:17 AM PST by John Jorsett
PARENTS were up in arms last night after a headmistress banned kids from playing tag on their breaks.
Other playtime favourites such as kiss chase are also forbidden, with pupils told they can only touch each other to help if one has fallen over.
One mum said: “Kids have been playing these games for centuries. The ban is barmy. It hardly helps children learn to play together.”
Headmistress Susan Tuck ordered the 400 pupils at Bracebridge Heath Primary School, near Lincoln, to keep their distance after a minority “persistently offended” in the playground.
She said she hoped to slowly reintroduce “supervised and appropriate physical contact between pupils”.
She added: “I couldn’t say to the boys they couldn’t play certain games and then allow the girls to go around linking arms. I think on the first day the children thought, ‘How is this going to work’?
“Now I have spoken to some of them and they think the playground has become a lot calmer.
“Pupils are more creative, playing games such as trying to jump on each other’s shadow instead of shoving each other roughly on the back.
“We certainly haven’t had the same number of bumped heads we were having.”
The move is the latest in a long line of playground games, including conkers and football, stopped by some schools for “safety reasons”.
You have GOT to be kidding...
Under that rule, I guess if you see a car hurtling at someone, you can't shove them out of the way, or if a perv tries to snatch a kid, his buddies can't try to pull him away.
I imagine that in a few years the entire British population will become human fainting goats if this catches on.
Good imagery. Boo! Thud.
First dodge ball, then tag, then ...
We're coddling a generation of kids, protecting them against all forms of "negative" play and social interaction. A generation that as adults, will be ill-equipped for reality.
"First dodge ball, then tag, then ...
We're coddling a generation of kids, protecting them against all forms of "negative" play and social interaction. A generation that as adults, will be ill-equipped for reality."
This isn't REALLY the important thing about all of this.
The important thing is that NO MATTER WHAT officials order, Anglo-Saxons will OBEY it. They will grouse, but they will NEVER physically assault the authorities and literally break the law openly and violently in order to beat fear into the government officials.
If the processes are followed and officials ordain a new rule, English-speaking people will ALWAYS OBEY THE LAW, no matter how stupid it is. They will never, ever break it. They'll bitch, but they won't punch.
Idolatry of law and excessive obedience to authority is the weakness of all Germanic races.
Very true and sad too.
They don't need to worry about reality. There are drugs for that.
The is what passes for progress among...well..."progressives".
PC tyranny.
Lloyd Christmas: You’re it.
Harry Dunne: You’re it.
Lloyd Christmas: You’re it, quitsies!
Harry Dunne: Anti-quitsies, you’re it, quitsies, no anti-quitsies, no startsies!
Lloyd Christmas: You can’t do that!
Harry Dunne: Can too!
Lloyd Christmas: Cannot, stamp it!
Harry Dunne: Can too, double stamp it, no erasies!
Lloyd Christmas: Cannot, triple stamp, no erasies, Touch blue make it true.
Harry Dunne: No, you can’t do that… you can’t triple stamp a double stamp,
you can’t triple stamp a double stamp! Lloyd!
Lloyd Christmas: [hands over ears] LA LA LA LA LA LA!
Harry Dunne: LLOYD! LLOYD! LLOYD!
Typical reporting. Did the 'minority' Do the offending? Did the 'minority' GET offended?
Guess, since it's a 'minority', it really doesn't matter; punish EVERYBODY!!
So have I. They've pathologized boyhood.
Never mind the kids, the whole dang country has fallen over.
Don't forget smear the queer!
Every recess(70's),me and my friends played 'Smear the queer." Wonder how that would go over today?
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