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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!
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.
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.
You are so boring that when I see you my feet go to sleep.
... but we can't, because that would involve taking the stairs, and someone might get hurt.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
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.
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They're talking about the spray. 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!
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.
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.
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 . . .
Don't worry... we have a congressional page program for any kid that wants to be molested.
Consider brightly-colord safety chains for kids:
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My turnips listen for the soft cry of your love
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.
My turnips listen for the soft cry of your love
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Can I get 2 LOL's and a side of ROFL with that?
if you are a Sheepdog, what are YOU going to do about it?
... that's not it.
Eat the Sheep, invite the Wolves over, have a party?
Oh, wait
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Sorry, but Clinton left.
All an intern can get nowadays is e-mail discussions of being molested.
Who would win this election: Andrew Weiner vs Andrew Weiner's weiner.
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)
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Rocket cars. He meant his kids would have rocket cars.