Tag: You're It! -- Or not.
Check out the story of the Massachusetts school that's gone way overboard in protecting children. Now they can't play "tag" during recess. Tag. Come on. What's next, "Duck, Duck, Goose''?
Kids at elementary schools around Attleboro, just south of Boston, were told a few years ago that they couldn't play dodgeball anymore because it was "exclusionary and dangerous." OK, maybe some of the kids don't know how hard they throw ... that's why there are playground monitors, right?
Now the folks at the Willett Elementary School also banned tag and touch football during recess, because they're afraid a kid's going to fall down, get hurt and sue the school. The principal said that recess is "a time when accidents can happen." So is every other minute of the day.
One parent said her son feels safer because of this rule. That kid probably goes to school wrapped in foam rubber in case he falls down. She's got to beef up that boy a little. If he's afraid of playing tag, he can sit and watch. "Feels safer" because no one can play tag? That's nuts.
Check out the "Spoil sports" article in today's paper, or online at:
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/P/PLAYGROUND_TAG_BAN?SITE=NJASB&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2006-10-18-17-32-58
Kids at elementary schools around Attleboro, just south of Boston, were told a few years ago that they couldn't play dodgeball anymore because it was "exclusionary and dangerous." OK, maybe some of the kids don't know how hard they throw ... that's why there are playground monitors, right?
Now the folks at the Willett Elementary School also banned tag and touch football during recess, because they're afraid a kid's going to fall down, get hurt and sue the school. The principal said that recess is "a time when accidents can happen." So is every other minute of the day.
One parent said her son feels safer because of this rule. That kid probably goes to school wrapped in foam rubber in case he falls down. She's got to beef up that boy a little. If he's afraid of playing tag, he can sit and watch. "Feels safer" because no one can play tag? That's nuts.
Check out the "Spoil sports" article in today's paper, or online at:
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/P/PLAYGROUND_TAG_BAN?SITE=NJASB&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2006-10-18-17-32-58
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The liberals will not be happy until we are a nation of agnostic pussies.
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