Schools outlawing the game of Tag... [Archive]

Chundles

Oct 18, 2006, 04:34 PM

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/10/18/no.tag.ap/index.html

Retarded... No?

Oh you have got to be kidding me.

What is with you guys over there? Pretty soon it'll be illegal for kids to do anything that has even a remote chance of injuring them in some way.

Just you watch, in 20 years there will be a generation of Americans who can't function in the real world because of the current litigious climate ruining any chance they have of physical, social and personal development.

Here are my oft repeated words of advice to the vocal minority of parents in the US who seem to be systematically destroying their kids' lives:

"Harden the **** up and calm the **** down."

What a load of crap. *shakes head incredulously*

tech4all

Oct 18, 2006, 04:35 PM

Yea like playing on the monkey bars or going down the slide is any less 'risky', or did they ban that to? Might as well make schools out of nerf nowadays. Are they going to take P.E. out of the curriculum now? :rolleyes: Kids are going to get hurt, it's part of growing up. I remember playing tag, that was fun :D

telecomm

Oct 18, 2006, 04:36 PM

Yeah, I saw this earlier too. That's absolutely crazy.

I read it first here...

Toronto Star Article (http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&pubid=968163964505&cid=1161167286993&col=968705899037&call_page=TS_News&call_pageid=968332188492&call_pagepath=News/News)

I love the quote at the end from the mother who feels safer: "I've witnessed enough near collisions." What does that even mean?

dsharits

Oct 18, 2006, 04:37 PM

Retarded, politically correct, stupid, idiotic, rediculous, absurd, laughable, preposterous, mad, inane, crazy, non-sensical, and outright insanity.

Dont Hurt Me

Oct 18, 2006, 04:40 PM

Blame the Lawyers, they are destroying society.

benthewraith

Oct 18, 2006, 04:46 PM

Blame the Lawyers, they are destroying society.

....:confused:....what?

Dude, a Lawyer's job is to represent the client. It's the client that's litigating. :rolleyes: The Lawyer is just supposed to make sure they win.

Dont Hurt Me

Oct 18, 2006, 04:48 PM

Lawyers suck and this policy is to stop the next Ambulance Chaser. Who said we should kill all the Lawyers?:)

Chundles

Oct 18, 2006, 04:54 PM

....:confused:....what?

Dude, a Lawyer's job is to represent the client. It's the client that's litigating. :rolleyes: The Lawyer is just supposed to make sure they win.

How about:

"Blame the ambulance-chasing personal injury compensation lawyers."

Those guys, and the current generation of pass-the-buck parents are to blame for this. To all those MacRumourites currently looking down the barrel of parenthood, please take responsibility for raising your children. At the end of the day it's YOUR FAULT how they grow up, sure you can say "but what about environmental factors?" to which I reply "well it's YOUR FAULT how you respond to those environmental factors."

Please, let the kids be kids and make sure they know that accidents happen and when accidents happen they should just get up, brush themselves off and keep going, not sit around litigating for years because they're too scared to get back into life.

Time to grow some balls America.

®îçhå®?

Oct 18, 2006, 04:57 PM

Its like making children wear safety goggles and hard hats to play conkers. It is stupid and is getting completely over hyped.

FleurDuMal

Oct 18, 2006, 04:59 PM

Lawyers suck and this policy is to stop the next Ambulance Chaser. Who said we should kill all the Lawyers?:)

What about the people who take these ridiculous claims to court in the first place? Aren't they to blame?

What about the lawyers who work for schools, hospitals and other public services that fight against these stupid, petty, greedy claims? Surely they can't be to blame?

Dont Hurt Me

Oct 18, 2006, 05:01 PM

Yes they can and why do you call me Shirley?:confused:

jdechko

Oct 18, 2006, 05:06 PM

In the word's of someone else, "Stop the world. I want off."

It sucks that every generation of children has further restrictions put on what they do. And the parents as well (spanking, anyone?). I, for one, won't hesitate to hit my kid on the rear to discipline him. No, I'm not gonna beat my kids, but I'm sure gonna whoop 'em when they deserve it.

This just makes me sick.

Ugg

Oct 18, 2006, 05:09 PM

Idiotic, absolutely. Unforeseeable, absolutely not.

People are having fewer kids these days so it's only natural that they are more concerned about the one or two they have. Back in the old days when there were 3 or 4 or a dozen, kids roughhoused at home and learned to live with it. Now that there's only one or two, little johnny or jane simply have no reference point and living in exurbia, no chance of playing with the neighbors. Not only because they are shuttled around by mommy from soccer to ballet to piano etc, but because they are locked in the house due to a mostly hypthetical, "stranger danger".

It's also a product of skyrocketing insurance rates. Fewer people would be willing to sue if their health insurance deductible wasn't sky high. When Johnny's trip in the ambulance to the emergency room to sew up a cut on his knee costs over $2500, risk taking has a definite downside.

MacBoobsPro

Oct 18, 2006, 05:12 PM

"Harden the f**k up and calm the f**k down."

You have to get that on a TShirt Chundles because it is so damn true.

Killyp

Oct 18, 2006, 05:14 PM

It's getting really, really stupid. There was a thing on the local news recently where the Bristol council had banned door-mats in blocks of flats so people didn't trip over them. Stupid!!!! :mad:

kwajo.com

Oct 18, 2006, 05:20 PM

This really gets my goat. Seriously, let kids be kids. Everything is so goddamn PC these days, you can't do anything. Everyone is coated in anti-bacterial lotions because they are afraid of getting sick, kids can't go play in the dirt or play games where they might get hurt, the world is going to hell. We're going to end up with a generation of whimpy people with no disease-tolerance and no idea how to handle the real world.

I say force everyone into mandatory Rugby programs to toughen them up. No pads, no antibiotics, no refrain on language. this goes for adults and kids, we ned to shut the **** up and stop being afraid all the damn time.

patrick0brien

Oct 18, 2006, 05:51 PM

I'm telling you, there will come a day when our kids will have to live in zorbs (http://www.zorb.com/) until their 18th birthday, in warm climates, with no school at all (dare we force them to think).

Witness the wussification...

thedude110

Oct 18, 2006, 06:01 PM

telecomm

Oct 18, 2006, 06:10 PM

What's the big deal?

As far as I can tell, the school has decided that kids can't play touch sports during recess unless supervised.

This seems perfectly realistic and sane to me, as I'd hope recess is at all times supervised.

Would love to know the definition of "political correctness" as it exists in this thread ...

Ummmm... I sort of suspect this was in jest, but what sort of school has unsupervised recesses? "Unsupervised," as it's used in the article, presumably means without a supervisor watching the game, rather than without a supervisor watching the entire schoolyard.

Chundles

Oct 18, 2006, 06:18 PM

What's the big deal?

As far as I can tell, the school has decided that kids can't play touch sports during recess unless supervised.

This seems perfectly realistic and sane to me, as I'd hope recess is at all times supervised.

Problem is - you have to have a teacher supervising that specific game of tag. What teacher in their right mind is going to accept responsibility for supervising a game that has suddenly been deemed dangerous and risk the wrath of pass-the-buck parents when Little Johnny falls and breaks a wrist or something similar.

What happens if that teacher is watching the game of tag and something happens elsewhere in the playground? Are they liable for that?

It's just a game of tag. Sure, ban games like tackle football or brandings if you must (replace tackle footy with touch footy and everything's fine) but seriously, tag? That's a nothing game, if the kids hurt themselves playing tag it just means they need to practice running and dodging more - thus, MORE TAG.

I went to a private school here in Aus with a massive focus on Rugby (as massive as you can get down here because nobody outside the school gives a rat's about High School sport) and we weren't allowed to play full tackle rugby at lunch but touch was fine, why? Because it was just touch footy - nothing horribly bad is going to happen in a game of touch footy. Same thing with tag.

thedude110

Oct 18, 2006, 06:48 PM

Ummmm... I sort of suspect this was in jest, but what sort of school has unsupervised recesses?

I mean, no. Not really. My Web self isn't doing the best job of taking things very serioulsy lately, but, no. Not so much in jest.

I understand where everyone is coming from, and I think Chundles makes a really good point about teachers and their fear of parents. And god knows I think kids should be allowed to play tag during recess. I guess I just mean to suggest that by banning "unsupervised" tag, the school in question seems to be giving itself signficant leeway in terms of just how supervised a game of tag could be.

More simply: I don't see a story here, and I suspect, based on the language used in the article, that if one of us dropped in and observed this school for a month, we'd see a game of tag or two (supervised, but without a teacher stepping in to stop it).

I don't know what elementary schools were like when and where everyone grew up, but I know that my recesses were limited to small, paved surfaces -- no kid was ever out of the teacher's sight.

MacNut

Oct 18, 2006, 06:51 PM

Rather then trying to keep guns out of the hands of kids we are more concerned with a little game of tag. Why don't they only give the kids pre chewed food to risk the choking hazard.:rolleyes:

Chundles

Oct 18, 2006, 06:52 PM

I don't know what elementary schools were like when and where everyone grew up, but I know that my recesses were limited to small, paved surfaces -- no kid was ever out of the teacher's sight.

My school was on 200 acres with about 30% of that accessible during recess/lunch. There was reasonable supervision but if anybody really wanted to do anything they could, just had to be creative about how they went about avoiding the teachers. I remember the smokers used to hide in the little alcoves around the outside of the chapel.

MacNut

Oct 18, 2006, 06:53 PM

Counterfit

Oct 18, 2006, 07:43 PM

I was very surprised when I read that earlier. Not because of the contents, but because my mother teaches music at that school! In addition, a friend of mine is student-teaching with her until the end of the week. He said Geraldo Rivera wanted to do an interview. :eek:

mariahlullaby

Oct 18, 2006, 08:44 PM

I remember in elementary school we used to have an annual snowball fight on the baseball field during recess. Anyone who wanted to go just showed up, but they couldn't cry if the principal shoved snow down your shirt or a teacher pummeled you with snowballs.

Today, it would probably be banned.

Sad. Really sad.

Graeme A

Oct 18, 2006, 10:29 PM

dornoforpyros

Oct 18, 2006, 10:49 PM

so child obesity is the rise...and their banning physical activity...yeah...

Counterfit

Oct 19, 2006, 12:31 AM

so kids don't get to enjoy a game of Britsh Bulldog anymore.... tsk tsk. I have fond memories of nearly 30 kids running from one end of our playground to the other avoiding the kids who wanted to rough you up... and this was in primary school.
I loved that game, and was consistently amazed that there were no collisions of a huge scale.

inlimbo

Oct 19, 2006, 08:38 AM

My elementary (we call it junior school downunder) was awesome. We had an 'advernture playground'. Basically it was a piece of bushland area. It was all just trees and dirt. We used to run around making 'bases' and 'huts' and stuff. We all ran with sharpened sticks ('spears') and bomby-knockers, waging war on each other. It was great! And no-one ever got hurt. Nor was there much supervision – a teacher would walk through occassionally and you would throw any spears in the bushes.

It is still there but i guessing that it is banned now-a-days. I think I might go and find out.

Its a crying shame all this stuff. We are just destroying kids' lives. They will all grow up to borning, brainless drones.

And its not just America. It happens (not to the same extent) in Australia. And its not the lawyers fault (I should point I'm baised because I'm studying law). Its just that poeple won't be responsible for their own actions. The other thing to note is that when read all those cases in the newspaper about someone slipping on the footpath and suing for millions of dollars, that the newspapers rarely ever report what happens on appeal. Most of the cases are quashed on appeal or the sum of damages are reduced for example for contributory negligence, or to take into the 'vissitudes of life' etc... Also remember most of the time the cases are between insurance companies as opposed to the 'real' plaintiff and defendant.

whooleytoo

Oct 19, 2006, 01:33 PM

so kids don't get to enjoy a game of Britsh Bulldog anymore.... tsk tsk. I have fond memories of nearly 30 kids running from one end of our playground to the other avoiding the kids who wanted to rough you up... and this was in primary school.

:p

I was going to bring this up too - great game! In our case, we had perhaps four or more games going on at once (one per class), all criss-crossing the same school yard - absolute mayhem.

I did actually get tripped in one game and went face first into the concrete, smashing my nose up badly. Pity I didn't know we could sue back then.. :rolleyes:

This "compo culture" is out of control over here too. People looking for any opportunity to sue. We had a great skate park setup here which was really popular with children, especially from the poorer areas of Cork; but was closed due to exorbitant insurance prices. (High claims -> High insurance prices).

patrick0brien

Oct 19, 2006, 01:37 PM

...poeple won't be responsible for their own actions...

-inlimbo

I think you hit the nail on the head - all the way to the bottom. It's difficult to accept responsibility in the first place, but combine blamethrowing culture with the potential to make a buck, and we get this.

Lau

Oct 19, 2006, 01:39 PM

so kids don't get to enjoy a game of Britsh Bulldog anymore.... tsk tsk. I have fond memories of nearly 30 kids running from one end of our playground to the other avoiding the kids who wanted to rough you up... and this was in primary school.

Another grin at British Bulldog. :D It got banned at my junior school (and this was in the 80s) because someone broke their arm. Of course, we just renamed it something else and carried on playing it. "I hope you're not playing British Bulldog". "No, we're playing <whatever it was>". :p

emw

Oct 19, 2006, 01:48 PM

Yea like playing on the monkey bars or going down the slide is any less 'risky', or did they ban that to?My daughter broke her arm falling off the monkey bars at school over the summer. So did another girl later this year.

They've subsequently banned using the monkey bars without direct teacher supervision. Granted, these kids are 4-6 years old, but still. **** happens, you know? It taught her how to deal with disappointment (she had to cancel her swim lessons for 2 months) as well as how to deal with the inconvenience of having a cast.

I know they banned use because of a fear of lawsuits or insurance costs, which is too bad.

But tag? Unbelievable. Sure, we don't want to put our kids in a situation in which they risk serious injury, but tag is not one of those areas. They're more likely to get hurt in a fight on the bus ride home.

monke

Oct 19, 2006, 01:48 PM

Another grin at British Bulldog. :D It got banned at my junior school (and this was in the 80s) because someone broke their arm. Of course, we just renamed it something else and carried on playing it. "I hope you're not playing British Bulldog". "No, we're playing <whatever it was>". :p

Happened to me in elementary school because the game were getting to violent and too big. When one game of British Bulldog takes up about 1/4 of the schools main field, something had to be done. Nevermind the fact of kids trying to trip others, clothesline them, among other thins. O the gold ol' days :)

Why ban tag though? What are they going to gain out of it? More kids running around with no purpose, after all, they are just kids, let them do what they want. Besides, will banning 'tag' help child obesity? Don't think so, more kids will be sitting down and watching, or playing on their gameboys.

whooleytoo

Oct 19, 2006, 02:01 PM

This story reminds me a little of a time recently when I was relaxing in the local park, by a large, shallow pond.

There was a young mother nearby who was playing with her young boy; but every time she put him down, he made a kamikaze dash for the pond. She'd get to him just in time, carry him back with his legs still whirring underneath him, put him down and off he'd zoom again.

Now, maybe I'm an evil person inside, but it occurred to me if she just let him fall in once (it was only about 25cm deep) with her standing right by, he'd have learnt what happens when you fall into water; and would be wary of doing so again. As it is, if he's ever near a river or the sea, he's likely to do the same and if she isn't quick enough to catch him there?

I think children learn through experience, and in wrapping them up in cotton wool as they grow you're only delaying that experience. Long live bumps, bruises, and scuffed knees and elbows! :p

huck500

Oct 19, 2006, 05:21 PM

Chundles

Oct 19, 2006, 05:29 PM

My elementary (we call it junior school downunder) was awesome. We had an 'advernture playground'. Basically it was a piece of bushland area. It was all just trees and dirt. We used to run around making 'bases' and 'huts' and stuff. We all ran with sharpened sticks ('spears') and bomby-knockers, waging war on each other. It was great! And no-one ever got hurt. Nor was there much supervision – a teacher would walk through occassionally and you would throw any spears in the bushes.

Pretty sure we call it "Primary School."

Bommy-knockers were sweet. We had a full on dust war in my primary school days, there was a drought on (as usual) and there was dust everywhere so we used to pile it up in the middle of the glad wrap our lunches were wrapped in, seal it in tight and chuck it at "the enemy." The plastic was so tightly stretched it would burst on impact and get everywhere, ears, eyes, nose, everywhere.

Then when the winter came and the ground was soft again there was the wonder that is:

Tackle. Bullrush.

tech4all

Oct 19, 2006, 06:35 PM

I teach at a school in Southern California where tag has been outlawed for years... our parents are affluent and educated, they sue a lot, and law firms are actually moving into our area because there have been so many successful lawsuits against my district. It's pretty disheartening. :(

Man that is really sad. I wonder what parents sue over? Sad that kids can't play during recess because if they get hurt the school gets sued :rolleyes: Seems like just about anybody will sue anyone for anything; it sucks cause kids have the fun taken away from taken away from them which actually does them good (socializing, exercising which is important, etc) :(

haha, remember dodge ball? that was so fun, course can't do that anymore....:rolleyes: :(

Just seems like parents are more into lawsuits that their children going outside and having fun. Sure they could get hurt, but they could get hurt anywhere, not just school.

DaveP

Oct 19, 2006, 10:30 PM

It is ironic to hear everyone go on about how much fun they had playing rough games. It's one of the more fun aspects of being a kid.

My shining moment in elementary school was playing king of the hill on the snow pile and jumping off and landing a boot to a friends neck and knocking him back on the hood of a car. Good times.

They should promote rough games.

peter32892

Oct 19, 2006, 11:04 PM

This is just complete bs. Kids are supose to have fun not be locked up. :mad: stupid schools banning one of the best games a kid will play. What is next gym will be gone. people won't be walking or getting any sort of work out and will be come even more over weight.:( :o :eek:

Counterfit

Oct 20, 2006, 01:40 AM

Some more details that I doubt any media outlet has shared:
The rule has been in place for 10 years.
The entire playground area is paved, and not all that big.
There are usually 100-ish kids at recess.

Combine those last two with tag (or any other game involving running in random directions) = very busy nurse, and possibly a very busy legal dept.

Besides, it's not like they sit on their asses all day. They still have P.E., and they dance/move in music class somewhat often as well.

ziwi

Oct 20, 2006, 10:12 AM

this is nuts - first you can't count the goals in the youth soccer games and have no goalies so no one's feelings get hurt and now no tag because of near collissions - I guess they should outlaw bikes and roller blades and everything else. It gets nuttier everyday.

Off-Topic: Has anyone seen the type of math they teah kids at school in the US nowadays? I saw it and now I know why kids can not make change at the local quickie mart...they have made it so complicated a process to figure out simple things. The downward spiral continues...

thedude110

Oct 20, 2006, 05:41 PM

Right. I'm sure our math teachers have no idea what they're doing.

In fact, I think they're working awfully hard to make sure our kids are so confused by math that they'll have no energy left to play tag.

telecomm

Oct 20, 2006, 06:10 PM

Xeem

Oct 21, 2006, 03:23 AM

Xeem

Oct 21, 2006, 03:27 AM

If I was a parent at that school, I'd launch a class-action lawsuit against the school. It wouldn't be hard to find the support for it.

Nermal

Oct 21, 2006, 03:50 AM

I love the quote at the end from the mother who feels safer: "I've witnessed enough near collisions." What does that even mean?

It means she saw some things that didn't actually happen.

Over here, a few months ago, there wasn't a tsunami. However, there were rumours of a tsunami, and people complained that they hadn't received any warning about the lack of a tsunami. I felt like ringing someone up at 3 am and saying something to the effect of "This is the tsunami warning service. There is no tsunami at this time." :p

Cassie

Oct 22, 2006, 01:40 PM

At my school, we still have dodgeball... but we use nerf balls (no kidding)

Ya, it does suck that when someones kid gets hurt, they sue the school. Down here, in Arkansas, no one sues for anything. a Kid three years ago was in a fight with some other kid, and he got knocked down to the asphalt, and lost his two front teeth. (Permenant ones) The princeipal was scared out of his mind that he was going to be sued. The kids parents came to school, and literly said to his face
"S*** happens."
Granted, this wasn't tag or anything, but I'm just saying stuff happens, and kids get hurt. Our parents sue the hell out of the school. But we don't care. We know we'll get hurt, and we take that risk. If we get hurt, blame it on US. Not the school. It's our fault, not thiers. We shouldn't have climbed on swingsets. we shouldn't have played volleyball with a rock (long story:D ) But when we do, they schools get blamed. and im sick of it.

TAG being banned? Tag is definatly safer then a slide, or the swings. If I were those kids, I'd form a mass protest.

I guess when you're 13, like some of the other members on this board, you see the world differntly. We're freakin teenagers! We have no sense of pain or fear, nor any common sense! Let us learn our lesson.

It's just sad what the world has become today...:(

SeaFox

Oct 24, 2006, 03:39 AM

They could rename tag "Terrorist Hunt". One person plays a DHS agent whose job it is to catch the terrorists. So naturally the first thing he does is chase down his fellow Americans for being in the wrong place at the wrong time! :D

Then we'll reintroduce freeze tag as "Gitmo Tag" with the same rules. Only now it's impossible to get out of "prison" unless you're simultaneously tagged by five "free" people.

That way you couldn't ban the games if you were a "patriot"

Except dodge ball. We have to get rid of dodge ball due to it's object of flinging the pressurized ball through the air at tall, vertical people.

/end political satire

LethalWolfe

Oct 24, 2006, 04:21 AM

I remember a story a few years ago about some schools in CA banning tag because it might hurt the feelings of the kids that weren't good at playing tag. Way to teach kids to aspire to do better.:rolleyes:

Once again, I blame the "me generation" baby boomer parents for most of this. They're pretty much screwing up a generation w/their selfishness and sense of entitlement they are brandishing on their kids.

Lethal

xlosltove777

Oct 24, 2006, 08:06 PM

On Long Island schools tag, dodgeball etc. have been banned since the early 90's at least. The strict to the traditional sports , Basketball, Baseball, Football(touch football) etc. And I'm not sure if many schools have recess, just because most schools have to many kids to be watched over.

Abstract

Oct 24, 2006, 08:22 PM

I can't wait until some misfit (probably American) introduces something like a Karate class where punching and kicking isn't allowed. :rolleyes:

bluedevil14

Oct 24, 2006, 08:43 PM

this is exactly whats wrong with america

exabytes18

Oct 24, 2006, 09:15 PM

At our school, we used to play dodgeball, but that was banned. Now we play "speed and agility ball" which is dodgeball execept with nerf balls. Anyways, it's a real shame these classic games are going by the waste side.

uaaerospace

Oct 25, 2006, 09:24 AM

Another Willett parent, Celeste D'Elia, said her son feels safer because of the rule. "I've witnessed enough near collisions," she said.

OMG, her son is going to have an exciting life if he can do nothing more dangerous than play tag...:eek:

Over Achiever

Oct 25, 2006, 01:03 PM

Ah ... well this pales in comparison to the growing number of schools that have simply banned recess altogether.

I was lucky to have recess as child. Some of my nieces and nephews have no idea what recess is. That's a shame ... and we wonder why physical activity is going down.

-OA

Counterfit

Oct 25, 2006, 01:31 PM

If I was a parent at that school, I'd launch a class-action lawsuit against the school. It wouldn't be hard to find the support for it.
You might want to learn more first. Tag is one of only a few games banned, because there is no grass for the kids to run around on. Furthermore, the rule has been in place since the school was remodeled 10 years ago, but no one knows that because the media isn't going to let facts get in the way of a good story.

patrick0brien

Oct 25, 2006, 02:00 PM

When I was six-seven, we played tag in a junglegym-like thing that consisted of three large dishes attached to each other egdewise in series, with ladders coming up the centers. So when we played, there was a lot of climbing, scraping, falling, coordination involved.

... and no tag-backs, lest we get two kids standing around smacking each other.

'course, this was 1980-81. I can still smell the wood chips.

mattniles007

Oct 29, 2006, 12:39 AM

Yeah they should replace it with Xbox hour. How lame. Get those fat kids outside.

SeaFox

Oct 29, 2006, 01:52 AM

Yeah they should replace it with Xbox hour. How lame. Get those fat kids outside.

Interesting story here. I had the opportunity to visit a preschool/daycare I attended back in the early eighties several years ago (like five or so years after I left it). When I was attending kids were everywhere playing with toys, drawing, and there were some computers in one area (old Tandys that had cartridge slots in the side, we actually had programming books for them (!) but I don't think anyone got a program to run).

Anyway, when I visited again things were different. I noticed everyone in a small knot at one end of the room, they were sitting in a line in front of two TV's with Nintendo's hooked up, and they were taking turns (timed by egg timer) playing video games. These systems weren't there when I was going. Very few people were doing anything else now.

gekko513

Oct 29, 2006, 06:47 AM

I love the quote at the end from the mother who feels safer: "I've witnessed enough near collisions." What does that even mean?
Actually as written it wasn't the mother who felt safer: "Celeste D'Elia, said her son feels safer because of the rule."

Yeah right, because I remember how terrified I was of playing tag when I was in school. :rolleyes:

You might want to learn more first. Tag is one of only a few games banned, because there is no grass for the kids to run around on. Furthermore, the rule has been in place since the school was remodeled 10 years ago, but no one knows that because the media isn't going to let facts get in the way of a good story.
We played tag an other "dangerous" games on asphalt when I was in school. The only time someone broke anything was when a kid was using a climbing apparatus... that was built on grass.

Chundles

Oct 29, 2006, 06:50 AM

You might want to learn more first. Tag is one of only a few games banned, because there is no grass for the kids to run around on. Furthermore, the rule has been in place since the school was remodeled 10 years ago, but no one knows that because the media isn't going to let facts get in the way of a good story.

No grass?!

How does that work? :confused:

MACDRIVE

Oct 29, 2006, 06:56 AM

Does this mean that there's no more wrestling on the playground during recess? :confused:

Counterfit

Oct 29, 2006, 04:45 PM

The kids still run around outside during recess, they just can't play tag and a few other games.

Chundles

Oct 29, 2006, 04:58 PM

The kids still run around outside during recess, they just can't play tag and a few other games.

Yeah, but I still can't get my head around the "no grass" thing. :eek:

gekko513

Oct 29, 2006, 05:21 PM

The kids still run around outside during recess, they just can't play tag and a few other games.

Oh no, get on the phone to that mom. Running means her son will be involved in more near collisions.

It just highlights how stupid this is. Kids will run around anyway, no matter what it's called.
Yeah, but I still can't get my head around the "no grass" thing. :eek:
Are you serious? If you are, here's a pic:
http://www.gentofte.dk/upload/skolegård1_250.jpg

thedude110

Oct 29, 2006, 08:02 PM

I can't wait until some misfit (probably American) introduces something like a Karate class where punching and kicking isn't allowed. :rolleyes:

Hands off my idea.

srobert

Oct 31, 2006, 04:37 PM

I loved my childhood. I got hurt a lot but it was fun. BAck then parents understood it was part of growing up.

Ah the fond memories…

- Building treehouses with rusty nails and rotten wood 20ft up into a tree.
- Chopping down trees with axes
- Playing baseball with rocks and sticks
- Rolling down hills in old tires
- Digging deep narrow tunnels head firts under 10 tons mounds of snow.
- Throwing rocks at wasp nests
- Iceball fights (not a typo, we froze some of our snowballs in the freezer overnight for extra oomph. The look on their bloody faces… :D)
- Plank + Log + BMX + 100ft of street = Cool jumps… and sometimes a bruised ballsack.

I'm sure some of you guys have done this stuff too.

If I still did those things today (scary thougth) I'd be prime material for lawsuits. :)