[marrsstar4]

First: This sounds like forced organized recess, that won't work

Second:"Tamara Silver, a parent of a fifth-grader at Franklin Elementary ........"
What is a fifth grader (about 10 years old) doing playing tag.
My son quit playing tag after the first grade.

I'm so glad I live in a republican state (Texas)

[Technocrat]

They might call it tag, because they can't call it what it really is at that age level - Smear the Queer. Ah, the memories! (This at a California scool in 1978) (For those of you who are sadly unfamiliar with this great game, the idea is that you have one person, with the ball, who is the queer, and one hundred other people, all trying to get the ball away from him by any means they can come up with. Of course, once you have the ball, you're the queer....)