School Bans 'Tag'

GillBates0 writes "CNN is carrying a story about a school in Boston which has 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. According to the article, some elementary schools in other states have similarly banned "unsupervised contact sports". A parent was quoted as saying that her son feels safer now and that she'd witnessed enough 'near collisions.'" See, it's not just dangerous virtual games that are harmful to children!

Simple Child Care

[Anonymous Coward]

I've always said that we should just chain them up in a basement until they're 18. Avoids most of the hassles associated with kids.

This isn't really new

[jbrader]

When I was in elemetary schoo in the late 80's they wouldn't let us play touch footbal at recess. But then during P.E. they would make us play dodgeball.

We'd reach new heights of absurdity...

[ScentCone]

... but we can't, because that would involve taking the stairs, and someone might get hurt.

This is soo sad, its not even funny..

[Sassinak]

Well, it is funny.. *checking my calender to see if its april 1st*

Come on, the classic game of tag has been played in various forms, seemingly, for ever. With few to almost none getting hurt. My goodness, we are are rasing a bunch of whiny little snots who can't even take a little bruse. What, I wonder will they do, be when they grow up. (best friends with lawyers or a lawyer themselves I suspect, where NOTHING is ever their fault).

Sheez.. stuff like this gets me sick.

Not the sport, the spray

[courtarro]

They're talking about the spray [consideryo...warned.com]. Haven't you seen the commericals? The guy practically gets pummeled by women. It's really dangerous and I hope they put a stop to it. Think of the single adults!

And its not the body spray

[geemon]

After being inundated with all of those 'TAG' body spray commercials that show various teenage boys getting mobbed by teenage girls and being hit on my the teenage girs' moms, my first thought after reading the title was "Wow, that stuff must really work if they are having to ban it from schools!"

And then I read the article summary and find it is just the schoolyard game. Too bad - I was hoping for some interesting reading describing just how well that stuff worked.

Re:Simple Child Care

[gr8whitesavage]

Or perhaps maybe we could lock them in some pink goo, wire them together and collect energy from them. We could keep these "children" entertained in a virtual world where computer programs will teach them everything.

Obligitory George Carlin Quote

[scourfish]

It's not even a new idea; I first saw it in old newsreels from the 1930s, but it was hard to understand, because the narration was in German.

A Modest Proposal . . .

[Orange Crush]

Not only is this a brilliant idea from a liability standpoint, preventing children from engaging in these sorts of dangerous games can reduce bruising and other possible damage during their critical growth period.

I propose that schoolchildren not be allowed to move at all. They should be hung via sturdy cloth from the ceiling, thus immobilized, and fed heartily whilst at school. I have been assured by a very knowing gentleman of my acquaintance in Boston, that a young healthy schoolchild well-fed is at elementary school age a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled . . .

Re:Simple Child Care

[wootest]

And if they take the red pill?

Re:Not the sport, the spray

[gEvil (beta)]

Think of the single adults!

Oh, I will. I'll also include some of the married ones, too...

Re:Simple Child Care

[Captain Splendid]

And if they take the red pill?

How do you think we get goth kids?

Re:Hmm.

[hazem]

Don't worry... we have a congressional page program for any kid that wants to be molested.

Re:Simple Child Care

[ZoFreX]

I believe Wolfgang Priklopil was the pioneer of that tecnique... never has a man been so misunderstood... ( http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/5280472.st m [bbc.co.uk] if you don't know what I'm on about)

Re:Simple Child Care

[diersing]

My patent is pending on a giant padded hamster ball, if your balloon buffer comes to market I plan to sue you.

Re:Simple Child Care

[ShieldW0lf]

It amazes me that this would come from the USA. I mean, the 50 year olds act like teenagers, and they expect the children to act like adults?

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Re:Simple Child Care

[Anonymous Coward]

http://xkcd.com/c152.html [xkcd.com]

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Re:Simple Child Care

[harrypelles]

I've always said that we should just chain them up in a basement until they're 18. Avoids most of the hassles associated with kids.

...Except maybe let them out to cut the grass or wash the car once in a while.

Please think of the children when chaining them up

[Mateo_LeFou]

Consider brightly-colord safety chains for kids:
http://www.greatcompanions.com/images/GC1013_.JPG [greatcompanions.com]

Ban Mantels!

[Mateo_LeFou]

I did the same thing with my kids, but during a small earthquake they fell off and shattered. I'm suing someone over this, btw.

Re:WTF?

[Anonymous Coward]

The future of slashdot is now assured.

Re:I'm Glad They're Doing This

[Hubbell]

Can I get 2 LOL's and a side of ROFL with that?

Mmmm, Mutton.

[Kadin2048]

if you are a Sheepdog, what are YOU going to do about it?

Eat the Sheep, invite the Wolves over, have a party?

Oh, wait ... that's not it.

Re:Hmm.

[SnarfQuest]

Sorry, but Clinton left.

All an intern can get nowadays is e-mail discussions of being molested.

Re:Ban Mantels!

[I Like Pudding]

Let me know when you figure out who to sue

That's easy; God. I can just see the reality show opportunity: God Court. This will totally work if I can get James Earl Jones to play the voice of God.

Re:Simple Child Care

[object88]

Ok, kidding aside, I actually did manage to end up with stitches in my eyebrow from a game of tag when I was young.

And now, if you're lucky, you've got a cool scar across your eyebrow, which says your dangerous, and might help you get laid some day. Think of the adults-to-be! Encourage kids to play tag, injure themselves, and maybe they, too, will get lucky down the road.

Sadly, my dropped-bench-on-my-toenail-injury doesn't work. Good thing I'm married!

Re:Simple Child Care

[Pharmboy]

I've always said that we should just chain them up in a basement until they're 18.

It puts the lotion on the skin, else it gets the hose again?

Re:Simple Child Care

[Palshife]

My kids will play a variant of paintball without the gun but keeping the goggles. I'll call it goggles...game...thing. Whatever. It's safer.

Re:Simple Child Care

[thatguywhoiam]

And then we send them off to war.

We send them to play Tag over there, so we don't have to play it here?

(seriously though, your post: +5 OUCH)

Re:Simple Child Care

[minion]

Be fair - the average goth is more likely to take both pills, and ask you if you can get them some speed.
 
At least they'd choose... An emo kid would just cry in a corner faced with a decision like that... (or a decision as to what condiment they want on their veggie burger)

Re:I guess this also precludes 'Smear the Queer'?

[kimvette]

That game would not fly here in Massachusetts - after all, this is the commonwealth where the courts ordered the legislation to make it legal for gays to "marry." See, if that game were played here, Johnny's parents, who happen to be two guys, would sue the school claiming that the school supports "hate crimes" and that they are "offended" because their liberal mind cann't understand that one can have a difference of opinion without the presence of hatred.

(Now, my own personal position on gay "marriage?" Marriage is a religious construct which is by its very definition between a man and a woman; government has no business in getting involved, whether it's a normal marriage or a gay "marriage" so what the courts should have done is invoked the establishment clause and removed commonwealth interference in the family to begin with)

Re:WTF?

[Stauf]

Rocket cars. He meant his kids would have rocket cars.