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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 parental stupidity that is... :D
man, those dumbasses in the US will never cease to amaze me
That does it, I'm moving to some macho country like Australia. Or France.
Getting hurt is a valuable experience to children.
I couldn't agree more.
Steps into PSA mode
Hello, this is Slashdot's dr_dank. Take an active interest in the future of our nation and beat the shit out of a child today!
Where does the school board find them and why do they keep sending them to ME?
Heinlein's Lazarus Long "stories" are hardly requisite geek material. LL was an insufferably annoying character.
Now, if you don't recognize the phrase, "Shines the name, shines the name of Rodger Young." then you have a geek cred problem.
I realize this might offend some people, but there it goes:
As a Sheepdog, to protect the sheep, you've got to be meaner, stronger, faster, and smarter than the Wolves.
So you want to make sure the Sheep don't actually see you.
So you wear a nicely pressed uniform with a tie and keep the M-16 in the trunk.
You can also make sure the videos the Wolves produce get aired on CNN, so the Sheep will quiver agitatedly and pay the nicely uniformed Sheepdogs handsomely.
Of course, the Sheepdog must never let the Sheep or their journalists find out just how brutally and gruesomely the Sheepdogs deal with the Wolves. Besides, bloody Wolves body parts strewn haphazardly across cratered fields does not make for great TV.
Am I offtopic enough yet?
"Piter, too, is dead."
So sheepdogs are on top. Funny, an essay written by a sheepdog, putting them on top, with no checks or balances. What's to keep a sheepdog from turning into a wolf? What if the sheep don't want any fucking sheepdogs, should the sheepdogs force their protection on the sheep? What are sheepdogs without sheep and their need for protection? Nothing but furrier wolves. Maybe the sheepdogs and the wolves are in cahoots, pretending to fight each other to keep the sheep too scared to notice that sheepdogs don't eat grass, either.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
I really want some of what you're smoking.
Your parable is just thinly-veiled support for military power, written by a (surprise-surprise) squaddie.
What next? Doctors likening themselves to the vet that sheep don't like but still need to go see when things go wrong and how vets are really really important?
Only if by "for pussies" you mean "not hitting so softly that you don't even need pads".
Please, for the good of Humanity, vote Obama.