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School Bans Tag After Parents Complain
The Denver Channel.com ^ | 08/29/07

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.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: coloradosprings; education; grinchstolechildhood; nannystate; playground; tag; tagyoureit; wimps
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1 posted on 08/29/2007 5:11:43 PM PDT by MotleyGirl70
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To: MotleyGirl70

Well, I guess dodge ball is out - too competitive and violent.


2 posted on 08/29/2007 5:12:52 PM PDT by Dumpster Baby ("Hope somebody finds me before the rats do .....")
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To: MotleyGirl70

Morbidly obese games such as click the remote and fluff the pillow will be substituted.


3 posted on 08/29/2007 5:13:44 PM PDT by SampleMan (Islamic tolerance is practiced by killing you last.)
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To: Dumpster Baby
We really are headed down the shit hole aren’t we?
4 posted on 08/29/2007 5:13:54 PM PDT by MPJackal ("From my cold dead hands.")
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To: MotleyGirl70

Send them to school wrapped in bubble wrap and bolt them to the floor as soon as they get there. Darn kids, always doing childish things...


5 posted on 08/29/2007 5:14:16 PM PDT by kinoxi
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To: MotleyGirl70

And people wonder why kids are so fat today.


6 posted on 08/29/2007 5:15:22 PM PDT by skimask (Support Terrorism......Vote Democratic)
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To: MotleyGirl70

“running games will be allowed, as long as students don’t chase each other.”

Racing with a pair of scissors in your hand is always a fun competition. Especially when it is an obstacle race.


7 posted on 08/29/2007 5:16:18 PM PDT by weegee (NO THIRD TERM. America does not need another unconstitutional Clinton co-presidency.)
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To: Dumpster Baby

Kickball would be out too.


8 posted on 08/29/2007 5:16:31 PM PDT by MotleyGirl70
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To: skimask

Love your tagline!


9 posted on 08/29/2007 5:17:00 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Duncan Hunter in 2008!)
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To: MotleyGirl70
Just wait until President Hildebeast implements her program for mandatory government run day care centers for children 3 and up. No physical contact at all, just learning the ways of the Socialists from 3 to 21. I wonder if the uniform will include brown shirts. My heart is breaking for those who are young today.
10 posted on 08/29/2007 5:18:59 PM PDT by originalbuckeye (I want a hero....I'm holding out for a hero (politically))
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To: MPJackal

I think we are already there, just waiting for someone to turn out the lights.


11 posted on 08/29/2007 5:19:48 PM PDT by B4Ranch ("Freedom is not free, but don't worry the U.S. Marine Corps will pay most of your share.")
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To: MotleyGirl70

A typical spineless school administrator who can’t investigate a specific incident and determine if anything inappropriate was done by specific kids. Just ban the fun for all, play it super safe and cover your rear end.


12 posted on 08/29/2007 5:20:25 PM PDT by Will88
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We did not play dodge ball. We called it "Bombardment" and we played for keeps. It was the most fun I had in the school setting.

The professional educator class in government schools today seem bent on trying to make every student some sort of effete pansy. In the long run, it's a terrible idea. It is counter to human nature and natural competitiveness.

13 posted on 08/29/2007 5:20:26 PM PDT by San Jacinto
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...after some children complained that they'd been chased or harassed against their will.

Just wait until Junior gets out in the real world.

14 posted on 08/29/2007 5:20:31 PM PDT by MotleyGirl70
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To: MotleyGirl70

Maybe suburban kids are being forced by the State to share the playground with the kids of illegal aliens who are just honing their later life skills.


15 posted on 08/29/2007 5:25:25 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Will88

What do they want young boys to do; play hopscotch or jump rope with the girls. School administrators and parents trying to wussify young boys.


16 posted on 08/29/2007 5:26:45 PM PDT by MotleyGirl70
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To: MotleyGirl70
I guess splits using our pocket knives would be banned also!
17 posted on 08/29/2007 5:26:57 PM PDT by HuntsvilleTxVeteran (Remember the Alamo, Goliad and WACO, It is Time for a new San Jacinto)
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To: kinoxi

We didn’t have play balls in Detroit 35 years ago. We used bricks.


18 posted on 08/29/2007 5:27:24 PM PDT by Westlander (Unleash the Neutron Bomb)
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To: MotleyGirl70

Looks like the school invented a new game “fag”

What a bunch of whining sissies


19 posted on 08/29/2007 5:28:05 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: MotleyGirl70

TAG!!! You’re an idiot!!!!

(to the parents)


20 posted on 08/29/2007 5:28:08 PM PDT by agooga (When boyhood's fire was in my blood, I read of ancient free men...)
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