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Posted on 08/29/2007 5:11:41 PM PDT by MotleyGirl70
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- A Colorado Springs elementary school is banning the game of tag on its playground -- after some children complained that they'd been chased or harassed against their will.
Assistant Principal Cindy Fesgen of the Discovery Canyon Campus school said running games will be allowed, as long as students don't chase each other.
Fesgen said two parents complained to her about the ban, but most parents and children didn't object.
Two elementary schools in the nearby Falcon School District did away with tag and similar games in 2005 in favor of alternatives with less physical contact. Officials at Evans and Meridian Ranch elementaries say that encouraged more students to play games, and helped reduce playground squabbles.
Colorado Springs schools are not alone. Schools in Cheyenne, Wyo., Spokane, Wash., and Attleboro, Mass., have banned tag at recess. A suburban Charleston, S.C., school not only banned tagged, but outlawed all unsupervised contact sports.
Haha I clicked on this thinking it was a ban for Tag the spray for men.
What a bunch of nuts. You can’t play tag but you can learn about all kinds of deviant sexual acts that will kill you.
Played as far up as the early-mid 90s. I’m a fat gal and loved that game too!
> Officials at Evans and Meridian Ranch elementaries say that encouraged more students to play games, and helped reduce playground squabbles.
Playground squabbles is how kids figure out how to handle conflict. We’ll be raising a bunch of socially stunted kids who run to Mommy Government every time there is any kind of trouble.
Which I guess is the plan all along.
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With the possible exception of North Attleboro, MA, none of the locations banning tag are in notoriously liberal areas of the country. That is the scary part of this story. A fear of litigation on the part of the school boards or principals and the withdrawal of many of the most conservative parents from public schools may have a role in this matter. However, it may rather be that many people who are not political activists but who vote Republican because of President Bush's perceivedly strong stance on terrorism or dislike of effete upper class or militant minority liberals have been inculcated with many mainstream cultural values. Oprah Winfrey plays in Peoria better than she does in Manhattan or Beverly Hills. The same foul detritus from the mainstream culture is as available in red state America as it is anywhere else.
The moral and intellectual state of this country, even beyond the obvious liberal hell holes, is not encouraging for those who hold to traditional moral values or esteem hard work and reason over dependency and "feeeeeeeeeeeelings".
Y’all are both talking about exactly the same game.
Is either “keep away” or “smear the queer” still played these days?
No way, but I remember we’d play those and king of the hill, at least once a week and then the one puss would get hurt, tell the playground “lady” (that’s what they it was, a lady) and we’d all get busted and told not to rough house. Of course we’d all do it again until one of the weenies would get hurt and tell.
Today they play “keep GOD away from our kids” and “normalize the queer” in the schools.
This PC crap is going to kill us down the road.
It killed the kids at VA Tech. Out of a couple hundred in rooms full of 10-20 kids, nobody stood up and fought besides the old ex concentration camp prof. That’s telling, those kids were brainwashed into believing that fighting with force was never an option even when fighting for one’s life.
20 years ago that kid wouldn’t have made it past 2 rooms before being over powered and beaten to a quivering mess.
What HuntsvilleTxVeteran called “splits” was called “mumbly peg” by the kids I hung out with back in the 50s.
In fact, mumbly peg is the name for yet another game: rapidly sticking a knife between the fingers (see: http://www.makemeking.com/home/dares/381/Mumbly_Peg.html)
So which is the “real” mumbly peg? Your guess is as good as mine.
Mumbly peg as I recall it was like the game I described sans the groveling for the peg in the dirt.
Here’s yet another game called “mumbly peg” different still from the versions described earlier:
http://www.motherearthnews.com/DIY/1978-05-01/Two-Games-for-a-Knife-and-a-Way-of-Life.aspx
Photos:
http://www.motherearthnews.com/gallery.aspx?id=66236&seq=1
I don’t know if there is a universally accepted definition of the game, and maybe we called the wrong game “mumbly peg”, but that’s what it was called where I grew up.
I think mumbly peg was universally accepted as the name for many variations of knife games of skill
“Fesgen said two parents complained to her about the ban, but most parents and children didn’t object. “
Yes...so let’s punish ALL the children so that we can kowtow to TWO candya$$ parents.
“Well, I guess dodge ball is out - too competitive and violent.”
Have you seen the movie Dodgeball?
I love the instructional film they show...
“Remember! Dodgeball is a game of exclusion and humiliation....”
L0L we used to use the phrase “my trusty Barlow”
You’re probably right — thanx
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