Huh? What planet did bungee-jumping or scuba diving ever occur at recess?
Its only a matter of time before recess becomes this!
Took the words right out of my mouth.
The bubble wrapping of society continues...
Next: Students will not be allowed to wipe their own bottoms after pottying.
>Robyn Hooker
This is *exactly* why female principals are a mistake.
The feminization of our boys is in full swing.
They’re making kids into sissies!
Maybe they'e playing full body contact tag.
Yeah.
You're still "It" unless you flying-tackle little Billy.
Huh? What planet did bungee-jumping or scuba diving ever occur at recess?
Its only a matter of time before recess becomes this!
Of course, dog piling is only allowed in bath houses these days.
Seems silly to clamp down on a cardio activity while kids are getting more and more obese (or so we hear).
Maybe it’s easier to do “other” things if you can keep them from running....if you know what I mean.
It stinks, that’s all.
That was one of our all time favorites as kids!
Didn’t Monk cover this in an episode?
I totally forgot about that game.
LOL.....
The inmates really are running the asylum.
This tag involves grabbing people who do not necessarily know they are playing and possibly bumping them to the ground. "Then the kids do 'pyramiding' or 'towering.' They pile on each other. [Sometimes] they call it 'jailhouse' or 'jailbreak,' " because the child has to break out, she said.
Sometimes kids get out of control, and it is necessary to restore a reasonable level of order.
This tag involves grabbing people who do not necessarily know they are playing and possibly bumping them to the ground. "Then the kids do 'pyramiding' or 'towering.' They pile on each other. [Sometimes] they call it 'jailhouse' or 'jailbreak,' " because the child has to break out, she said.
Since the prohibition began early this month, physical education teachers have begun a "chasing, fleeing and dodging" unit in first through fifth grades. Students essentially play variations of tag, and the teachers remind them about safety rules and point out the athletic skills they can transfer to other sports, said Sue Straits, a PE teacher.
So basically they can still play tag, and likely will be able to play tag on the playground once again once the school figures out some reasonable rules for what is allowed and what isn't.
It does sound like some of the kids were being overly aggressive to the point where kids were going to get hurt.
They didn't try a zero tolerance approach and call the police and have the kids charged with assault. They just suspended tag long enough to get their teachers on top of the problem.
I'd have rather they just disciplined the particular kids that were causing the problem, but it sounds like the problem was widespread enough that their approach is reasonable.