A school BANS TAG...yes tag

[Muscletang]

School bans tag, other recess games

ATTLEBORO, Mass. - Tag, you're out! Officials at an elementary school south of Boston have banned kids from playing tag, touch football and any other unsupervised chase game during recess for fear they'll get hurt and hold the school liable.

Recess is "a time when accidents can happen," said Willett Elementary School Principal Gaylene Heppe, who approved the ban.

While there is no districtwide ban on contact sports during recess, local rules have been cropping up. Several school administrators around Attleboro, a city of about 45,000 residents, took aim at dodgeball a few years ago, saying it was exclusionary and dangerous.

Elementary schools in Cheyenne, Wyo., and Spokane, Wash., also recently banned tag during recess. A suburban Charleston, S.C., school outlawed all unsupervised contact sports.

"I think that it's unfortunate that kids' lives are micromanaged and there are social skills they'll never develop on their own," said Debbie Laferriere, who has two children at Willett, about 40 miles south of Boston. "Playing tag is just part of being a kid."

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

Student: Professor how did America fall?
Professor: That's a good question. Well the country was taken over by a bunch of fucking pussies.
Student: Pussies?
Professor: Yes pussies. These people were shitheads who had nothing better to do than fuck things up for everybody else.

[bluevp00]

Schools should outlaw books too, I've gotten too many papercuts from my textbooks. Also pencils too, they can stab people. And lets just let one kid in the hallways at a time, that way they wont run into eachother there.

So wait, kids can't play sports because it's dangerous, and they can't eat in school anymore because they'll get fat. Im so glad I went to grade school in the 90's.

[bluevp00]

Here's another article: http://dwb.sacbee.com/content/news/s...11389340c.html


And this is probably the most pathetic thing I've ever heard:

At Natomas Park, students can only toss and catch a football - tackling or blocking isn't permitted. But the no-contact rule applies beyond the grade-school gridiron.

During lunch recess one recent afternoon, yard supervisor Janice Hudson spotted a first-grader pushing a girl on the swing.

"Do not push," Hudson told the student. "Let her push herself, please."

[BP2K2Max]

next thing you know they'll ban gym class.

[Damien]

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im really beginning to think carrying around a bat and beating people is a good idea. maybe some sense will be knocked into them.

[beef_bourito]

wow that sucks, although i know i'd be one of the kids who had to spend time "against the wall" every recess for playing tag or something. it's retarded, dodgeball isn't dangerous, sure it might hurt a bit but these kids aren't nearly strong enough to inflict any kind of serious damage. and what about tag and other "contact sports"? what can a kid do other than fall down and scrape his knee or run into something, it's fucking stupid.

honestly, my kids are going to be punished with the belt, if they do something wrong, they have to walk over to the hanger and bring me my belt. either that or i'll send them into the forest to choose their stick, if it's too small ill just send them back in until they find a big enough stick.

[stieh2000]

Originally Posted by bluevp00

Im so glad I went to grade school in the 90's.

:15millionsign:

I'd never thought I'd have to homeschool my kids, but with the way things are going...

[beef_bourito]

i almost agree with you. i don't think i'll homeschool them because they need contact with other kids and school is one of the best ways to do that. I'll probably tutor them if they're anything like me, i got extremely bored in grade school because it was just too damn easy and high school wasn't much different, hell first year engineering isn't all that hard. but if they're anything like me they'll need it and they'll enjoy it, not only that but they should develope better study habits, do better in school, be more intelligent, get scholarships and cost me less money.

besides, they haven't done this in canada, let's just hope it stays that way until my kids are done.

[vinnym86]

i thought you meant TAG deoderant spray, and was expecting some stupid story of how the school was overtaken by lustful girls in skimpy clothes after men with TAG...

but this is even dumber. fucking pussies. i remember when dodgeball was king of recess and gym, and the gym teachers were little Hitlers in short shorts and muscle tees with a shiny silver whistle.

[TexasF355F1]

This shits fucking retarded. I love how everyone says kids need excercise, but then the PC crowd steps in and says kids can be injured doing X, or may have their feelings hurt.

If I'm gonna be living in a country where everyone grows up to be fucking pussies. I'm gonna teach my kid to be a bully.

[2.2 Straight six]

am i making the right choice by moving? i mean, the way things are going over there my potential future kids won't even be able to play games in the playground. that's stupid.

it's different here, if your kid gets hurt at school that's pretty much it, people don't sue the school because you got hurt there, it's not the school's fault if some other kid pushes your child over and they get hurt.

i remember when i was at school and i was like 7 or 8, we had some huge climbing frame thing, with like a "hut" at the top, it was about 12ft tall at the top. (it did have that soft rubber asphalt around it though) and some kid got pushed off and broke his arm, there was no law suit, the other kid got in shit and the injured one was back a week later with a cast.

[2.2 Straight six]

Originally Posted by TexasF355F1

If I'm gonna be living in a country where everyone grows up to be fucking pussies. I'm gonna teach my kid to be a bully.

maybe we should both take Andre 3000's approach, and buy our kid a gun when they're 9 years old.

[VR43000GT]

Originally Posted by vinnym86

i thought you meant TAG deoderant spray, and was expecting some stupid story of how the school was overtaken by lustful girls in skimpy clothes after men with TAG...

but this is even dumber. fucking pussies. i remember when dodgeball was king of recess and gym, and the gym teachers were little Hitlers in short shorts and muscle tees with a shiny silver whistle.

Me too.

It seems as if no matter what you are doing these days you are in one way or another breaking some law.

[Street18]

Originally Posted by vinnym86

i thought you meant TAG deoderant spray, and was expecting some stupid story of how the school was overtaken by lustful girls in skimpy clothes after men with TAG...

but this is even dumber. fucking pussies. i remember when dodgeball was king of recess and gym, and the gym teachers were little Hitlers in short shorts and muscle tees with a shiny silver whistle.

lol

[naughty koolaid]

what is our country coming to the whole phrase "well recess is a time when accidents happen" did anyone ever tell that guy the definition of an accident? a mistake. i can't wait until this generation moves on and people in the current 15-30 group are in charge of things. if any one of you tries to make up bullshit rules like this...well there'll be hell to pay.

and i agree about the homeschooling thing. i always felt bad for kids who were homeschooled because without the daily contact with people their own age, they turned out kind of socially retarded. *no offense to people here who are homeschooled and actually enjoy it* i wouldn't ever homeschool my future children for that reason but if stuff like this happens where they attend, i foresee me having a lot of "chats" with the administration.