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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061018/ap_on_fe_st/playground_tag_ban


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I suppose they should sit around and play Video Games all day. Running over hookers is always better than running around a playground.

I loved this one:

"I've witnessed enough near collisions."

Yeah, that's the thing. She didn't say anything about actual collisions. When I played tag with other kids back in elementary school, we almost always collided. It's called coming in close for a tag, bitch.

See? This is what fucking happens when Democracy is allowed to run amok like this. Soccer moms should have no god damn say in anything. Urgh.

This wins the prize for stupidest attempt to shield kids from absolutely nothing.

But... but... TAG IS THE GREATEST RECESS GAME EVERRRR!!!!!!111 :(

Second thread on this today I believe

But... but... TAG IS THE GREATEST RECESS GAME EVERRRR!!!!!!111 :(

It requires no skills, no labor, no frills.

Easiest game to learn that slow kids will lose at life, like how dodgeball teaches us to throw red rubber balls at fat people.

First dodgeball, now tag. Damn education establishment.

I think there was a thread on this yesterday. Sadly, I cant be arsed to look. This comment was wholly pointless :)

anyway, it's incredibly stupid. But this kind of thing has stopped shocking me.

First dodgeball, now tag. Damn education establishment.


*Ahem*

It requires no skills, no labor, no frills.

Easiest game to learn that slow kids will lose at life, like how dodgeball teaches us to throw red rubber balls at fat people.

Exactly, and running is great exercise too. Now what are they gunna play? Red rover?! Oh, they've probably banned that as well...

I loved this one:

"I've witnessed enough near collisions."

Yeah, that's the thing. She didn't say anything about actual collisions. When I played tag with other kids back in elementary school, we almost always collided. It's called coming in close for a tag, bitch.

See? This is what fucking happens when Democracy is allowed to run amok like this. Soccer moms should have no god damn say in anything. Urgh.


Lol, i used to love full contact tag. it is what being a kid is all about. I remember playing Freeze Tag where someone on your team could "break" your freeze if they plowed right into you. good times.

Dodgeball is under assault as well. That game teaches you the realities of winning and losing. if you're fat then you are gonna be out first. so lose the weight or just kick my butt later in wrestling. tag though...? now it is ridiculous.

What're they going to do next, ban Oregon Trail because it contains death? Wow, parents are just becoming stupider and stupider. God forbid the kid gets a bump! What happened to the good lod days when people played buffalo ball and lawn darts. I mean come on, what's the fun of a game if you can't taunt someone for throwing like a girl while they're holding a harpoon-like object?

*Ahem*

You aren't the establishment. You're the one that has to deal with the angry parents when some idiot makes this kind of decision.

Why am I going into education, again?

Wait, what?

What're they going to do next, ban Oregon Trail because it contains death?

Why not? Children shouldnt be allowed to become bankers and take 4 of their friends on some rickety splinter laiden wagon across western America. What if they get bitten by a snake? Or get typhus? Or learn that Indians think thundersticks are magic? Or break a leg two consecutive days and heal in a week?

Or think $3 buys you pounds of grain? They'll be stuck in economic quagmires for life.

Not to mention the environment hating buffalo slaughter and mindless horse abuse. How many rivers can one horse take!

You aren't the establishment. You're the one that has to deal with the angry parents when some idiot makes this kind of decision.

Why am I going into education, again?

summers off?

Not to mention the environment hating buffalo slaughter and mindless horse abuse. How many rivers can one horse take!

Horses suck. Oxen are better.

Why not? Children shouldnt be allowed to become bankers and take 4 of their friends on some rickety splinter laiden wagon across western America. What if they get bitten by a snake? Or get typhus? Or learn that Indians think thundersticks are magic?

Not to mention the environment hating buffalo slaughter and mindless horse abuse. How many rivers can one horse take!

I always got dysentery :(

summers off?

On a teachers salary, esp. first few years? Right. I'll be bartending and lifeguarding (oh, the horror, I know;) )

Horses suck. Oxen are better.

And thats another thing. Buying and selling them like slaves! Trading them for blankets!

Giving Injuns shiny things to take you across a river?

*mumbles "Liberal media" under breath*

Why not? Children shouldnt be allowed to become bankers and take 4 of their friends on some rickety splinter laiden wagon across western America. What if they get bitten by a snake? Or get typhus? Or learn that Indians think thundersticks are magic? Or break a leg two consecutive days and heal in a week?

Or think $3 buys you pounds of grain? They'll be stuck in economic quagmires for life.

Not to mention the environment hating buffalo slaughter and mindless horse abuse. How many rivers can one horse take!

haha. lol

Oh man, I almost forgot about fording rivers. In my class. We'd always buy nothing but oxen, travel at a rediculously grueling pace, and ford every river. What? The river's 4000 ft wide and 700 ft deep? Man..........I'm goin for it. Man those were the days. The TOP TEN actually meant something.

Lol, i used to love full contact tag. it is what being a kid is all about. I remember playing Freeze Tag where someone on your team could "break" your freeze if they plowed right into you. good times.

Dodgeball is under assault as well. That game teaches you the realities of winning and losing. if you're fat then you are gonna be out first. so lose the weight or just kick my butt later in wrestling. tag though...? now it is ridiculous.

1: Yeah, it was so fast-paced at the elementary school in this town, that no fat kids would even attempt to play tag with us. And we played full-contact... Twice. Turned out that very few of us liked it. :p

2: I love dodgeball. I was so good at it... I had great hands, I could throw extremely hard, and I was always the most nimble player on the field (though not necessarily the fastest). I gained a lot of respect in 3rd grade, thanks to my dodgeball skill. I was quickly becoming the best player in the school, and before I moved away, I was second only to the 5'6", 10-year-old man-child, Martin.

It was funny, because nobody had ever successfully caught one of his throws (he threw unbelievably hard for a child). I threw a ball at him, and it barely missed. He grabbed a dead ball, and as I tried to scramble to get a ball that was close by, he threw one at me. I turned, and I caught it like *snap* that. The kids from the other classes gasped in awe, because that had never happened before. Martin's jaw dropped, and the P.E. coach had a look of disbelief on his face. After that, I really didn't have much trouble competing at his level, as I hit him quite a few times, and caught several of his attempts. My forearms would be covered in stamps, just like his were.

Heh, a lot of memories a thread like this can stir up, eh?

I always got dysentery :(

I must have gone out west wearing a fur-coat, because every bloody game I got shot in a hunting accident.

No tag for kids. And the U.S. has a massive obesity problem... HMM!!!!! Smart move Massuchusetts gov't! :rolleyes:

No tag for kids. And the U.S. has a massive obesity problem... HMM!!!!! Smart move Massuchusetts gov't! :rolleyes:

Attleboro. Not all of Massachusetts. And not even all of Attleboro...it is only one elementary school mentioned. HUGE difference.

Attleboro. Not all of Massachusetts. And not even all of Attleboro...it is only one elementary school mentioned. HUGE difference.

Smart move one elementary school in Attleboro! :rolleyes:

Smart move one elementary school in Attleboro! :rolleyes:

thats better :)

No tag for kids. And the U.S. has a massive obesity problem... HMM!!!!! Smart move Massuchusetts gov't! :rolleyes:

1) WHY does my state ALWAYS get the worst comments?

2) Massachusetts is one of the skinniest states in the union, behind about 5 others. Check your facts, not every single person in the U.S is obese.

3) Check your facts again, the Massachusetts government didn't make this decision, the school did.

3) Soccer moms suck.

4) Super Intendants suck worse, because they think they know, but they're never aorund to actually find out.

I think the children should protest.

1) WHY does my state ALWAYS get the worst comments?

because we're just that awesome.

1) WHY does my state ALWAYS get the worst comments?

2) Massachusetts is one of the skinniest states in the union, behind about 5 others. Check your facts, not every single person in the U.S is obese.

3) Check your facts again, the Massachusetts government didn't make this decision, the school did.

3) Soccer moms suck.

4) Super Intendants suck worse, because they think they know, but they're never aorund to actually find out.

1) Because Massachusetts rawks my sawks.

2) Good stuff!

3) I know. Hehe. My bad there.

3) Indeed.

4) Indeed.

I loved this one:

"I've witnessed enough near collisions."

Yeah, that's the thing. She didn't say anything about actual collisions. When I played tag with other kids back in elementary school, we almost always collided. It's called coming in close for a tag, bitch.

See? This is what fucking happens when Democracy is allowed to run amok like this. Soccer moms should have no god damn say in anything. Urgh.

aside from the sanctioned games of bombardment and tag at school...my personal favorite was kill the man with the ball,and oddly enough,everyone wanted the ball.
go figure.
anyone remember that game?
i went to catholic school and they wouldnt let us play it during recess,not cause we got hurt(and damn we did play and get hurt)
but because we would destroy our uniforms,and i guees our parents didnt appreciate having to buy us new or sew our clothes every other day.
quite the violent and brutal game...but we all loved it(cept the weaker types)but they just didnt participate and did something else.

these yuppie soccer moms have to be stopped!(lol)

i say leave all the games be..if you dont want your kid to play (if it is a school sponsored game)write him a note and the school can have an alternative game for them to play....simple...no?

as brutal as they may seem to some,they do teach the kids certain realities of life.
good lessons and bad to be sure,but lessons nonetheless,and isn't that the point of growing up,and not constantly coddled by mommy...thats sick.

let the kids play is all,they will sort it out.

aside from the sanctioned games of bombardment and tag at school...my personal favorite was kill the man with the ball,and oddly enough,everyone wanted the ball.
go figure.
anyone remember that game?
kill the carrier. I just played that today.:D

everything hurts:(

...Oregon Trail...

Greatest. Game. Ev...

**dies of cholera while fording a river**

This is simply because of the frivilous lawsuits winning bogus cases. Now it has everybody jittery. Everybody's afraid of offending somebody. etc...

This is simply because of the frivilous lawsuits winning bogus cases. Now it has everybody jittery. Everybody's afraid of offending somebody. etc...

In this case I dont think "offence" is what is being woried about

Wussification of America. In about 100 years this country is going to be so full of such panzies that we wont even be able to fight anymore. Mob rule will take place becuase no-one can fight them becuase they are to afraid of violence. Or any pititful or powerful army in the world will invade and the wussififed US will fall faster and more embarssingly than the French in WW2. Its seriously getting so discusting. If any kid gets into a fight in almost any school even if they are only defending themselves, they all get punnished to the extreme. WE NEED to teach kids to fight and to stand up for themselves, thats what america is based on. And then, In sporting events all kids get participation trophys. Thats the biggest bullshit I've ever heard, you have to experiance what failure is, you have to experiance what "real' succsees is. People are so worried about hurting people's feelings and being politically correct that its fucking mind blowing. People need to grow a pair and need to understand life isnt Nice-white house Suburb land. People need to teach kids how to work, struggle, fight, and survive, becuase that is the world we live in.

we need to keep our children in rooms by themself so other kids dont hurt them

the room has to have padded walls so they dont get hurt from that

the lighting in the room has to be low but not to low so it doesnt hurt their eyes

the sound has to be at a low level to prevent hearing loss

air must be cycled through 15 filters to make it pure


why cant they just go back to the 40's when slides and other playground equipment were made of metal and high enough that if you fell off you would actually maybe skin your knee and learn a valuable lesson in balance.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061018/ap_on_fe_st/playground_tag_ban


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I suppose they should sit around and play Video Games all day. Running over hookers is always better than running around a playground.

Just one more case of how the politically correct are destroying what use to be a great public education system. Idiocy. Sheer idiocy. :(

Another part of childhood nostalgia goes poof. I used to love playing those gmaes at recess.

Just one more case of how the politically correct are destroying what use to be a great public education system. Idiocy. Sheer idiocy. :(

How does this have anything to do with "PC"?

I am not saying it is not idiodic but how the fuck is everyone connecting "PC" to this

It makes all you right wingers look obsessed I am sorry to say, like some sort of boogy man is chasing you even when it has nothing to do with anything

This is idocy yes, absolutly

This is because of friviolous lawsuits

Yes

This is not because of PC as far as I can tell

Well, as someone said in the other thread on this topic, what are they supposed to do? If a kid gets injured, the school gets sued. It's a dumb ruling, yes, but understandable - they're just covering their own bases (but in all likelihood it won't stop kids playing anyway, and if a kid gets hurt while the game is supervised, they'll get even more flak now).

It makes all you right wingers look obsessed I am sorry to say, like some sort of boogy man is chasing you even when it has nothing to do with anything


Hey, at least it's not the Muslims, communists or homosexuals this time.

Second thread on this today I believe
I'm going to play "tag" with one of my teacher's faces. :D

Hey, at least it's not the Muslims, communists or homosexuals this time.

Fair enough its just wierd

I find this stupid as hell and dont need to blame it on some partisain boogy man that has NOTHING to do with the topic at hand except that it sometimes shows up in stupid court cases too

Fair enough its just wierd

I find this stupid as hell and dont need to blame it on some partisain boogy man that has NOTHING to do with the topic at hand except that it sometimes shows up in stupid court cases too

perhaps the school system hasn't been as great as it was claimed in a very long time. It seems several people lack basic reading comprehension.

Unless, of course, they only read the thread title. In which case, its idiocy.

perhaps the school system hasn't been as great as it was claimed in a very long time. It seems several people lack basic reading comprehension.

Unless, of course, they only read the thread title. In which case, its idiocy.

Yeah the thread title is stupid too , it does leave the impression of PC being the culprit. But with the history of the OP ya got to be dull not to look into the potential BS claims

Yeah the thread title is stupid too , it does leave the impression of PC being the culprit. But with the history of the OP ya got to be dull not to look into the potential BS claims

Well, you really have to just be stupid to respond to a thread without reading the article included...hell, even an abstract of it.

I can understand not reading the whole thing, or not reading the whole thread, but come on...is one paragraph too much to ask for?

1) WHY does my state ALWAYS get the worst comments?

2) Massachusetts is one of the skinniest states in the union, behind about 5 others. Check your facts, not every single person in the U.S is obese.



3) Soccer moms suck.



Ted Kennedy is the reason Mass gets a bad rep for all of these.

*Ahem*

.. and your little dog too!

Tag sucks anyway. Capture the flag is sooo much better.

Tag sucks anyway. Capture the flag is sooo much better.

And Warball beats them all........

I heard about this story on GL today. I can't remember if it was declared an "end of the world" or "it's almost over". It's a coin-toss to me. Then they went into some story about an Austrian (I think it was Austrian) roofer who shot a nail in his left nut. Fun times.

Exactly, and running is great exercise too. Now what are they gunna play? Red rover?! Oh, they've probably banned that as well...

Redrover was banned when I went to gradeschool. Someone dislocated their shoulder. Bueracratic panic ensued. And now tag? This is ridicolous. Part of growing up is the bumps and bruises you get along the way, and how you get them.

This is stupid... people will not learn that it can be fun to do sports, people will not learn any respect of the rules, people will not learn any respect for the teachers. The more silly rules, the less real authority do these teachers have in the eyes of the children.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061018/ap_on_fe_st/playground_tag_ban


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I suppose they should sit around and play Video Games all day. Running over hookers is always better than running around a playground.

Fuckong retards! So what if kids gets hurt from time to time...that's part of growing up.

Another Willett parent, Celeste D'Elia, said her son feels safer because of the rule. "I've witnessed enough near collisions," she said.
Sorry, lady, but if your son is frightened of tag, you're an absolutely useless parent.

Don't blame the school.

Blame the stupid compensation culture that has arisen that encourages everyone to sue for the most minute injury with the most miniscule amount of blame.