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Schools outlawing the game of Tag...

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...:(
 
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
 
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
 
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.
 
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.
 
Another Willett parent, Celeste D'Elia, said her son feels safer because of the rule. "I've witnessed enough near collisions," she said.
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OMG, her son is going to have an exciting life if he can do nothing more dangerous than play tag...:eek:
 
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
 
Xeem said:
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.
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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.
 
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 said:
Yeah they should replace it with Xbox hour. How lame. Get those fat kids outside.
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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.
 
telecomm said:
I love the quote at the end from the mother who feels safer: "I've witnessed enough near collisions." What does that even mean?
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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:

Counterfit said:
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.
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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.
 
Counterfit said:
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.
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No grass?!

How does that work? :confused:
 
Counterfit said:
The kids still run around outside during recess, they just can't play tag and a few other games.
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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.
Chundles said:
Yeah, but I still can't get my head around the "no grass" thing. :eek:
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Are you serious? If you are, here's a pic:
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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. :)
 
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