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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!
It's the goddamn liberals.
They want things fair and tag isn't fair because someone has to be `it`.
Competition is bad as someone has to lose and nobody likes losers. Being a loser will hurt one's self esteem. School is supposed to provide a positive environment to build self esteem.
For the record they'll say it's for insurance reasons if the kid gets hurt. BS.
They also got rid of dodge ball for being a `violent` sport and aren't allowed to pick sides for basketball as it may hurt some children's self esteem.
These games are not only fun but also build character that they will need later in life.
Life is full of adventure and failure is part of the game. It's up to the individual to use their own character to pick themselves up, dust off, and go back at it.
If you're going to be a weenie kid because that's what the public education system has put forth and wear a man purse to your first day of work in a cube farm, you're gonna be laughed at. No better place to get laughed at than the elementary school ground to build that tough hide you're gonna need.
And if you cry because your boss didn't pick you for a project, you deserve to be ho-slapped for being a wuss. You can blame it on your school since they didn't allow basketball teams to pick players and `Athletic Scott` didn't pick you at all. After all, it's never your fault.
if you steal from one source, that is plagiarism, if you steal from many, well, that's just research.
Have we become New France?
Most lawyers are conservative? See ACLU for direct proof to the contrary.
Have you compiled your kernel today??
How are our kids going to be prepared to be soldiers as adults if we're preventing them from attacking one another during play? They'll grow up to be French or something.
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The same people who stress about the cost of litigation arising from kids playing tag at school probably have no problem with military recruiters at the high school and they wave their little flags and cheer when 18 y/o kids go into the military. Then they avert their eyes when a kid with missing legs rolls across their field of view. Let the kids play tag and send the worry-about-litigation-cost republicans to Iraq and the world will be a better place.