No More Tag for You!

[sandgk]

Insert South Park picture somewhere near here.

Colorado school district declares, no more tag for the playground.

Red Rover, Red Rover, tag's all over

Wed Aug 29, 7:14 PM ET

An elementary school has banned tag on its playground after some children complained they were harassed or chased against their will.
"It causes a lot of conflict on the playground," said Cindy Fesgen, assistant principal of the Discovery Canyon Campus school.
Running games are still allowed as long as students don't chase each other, she said.
Fesgen said two parents complained to her about the ban but most parents and children didn't object.
In 2005, two elementary schools in the nearby Falcon School District did away with tag and similar games in favor of alternatives with less physical contact. School officials said the move encouraged more students to play games and helped reduce playground squabbles.

Too high a risk of conflict.

A generation of pussies we are raising.

 

[Mac]

That's a shame....that school authorities are a bunch of fag's

 

[The KSB]

Jesus H. Weiss, the next thing you know they'll ban smear the queer.

 

[OCBucksFan]

A generation of pussies we are raising.

There's so much truth to that statement. As Henry Rollins put it, this will be the first generation that is less hardcore than thier parents. My dad would beat my ass when I fucked up, now it's against the law to spank your children. It's just gotten to the point where it's out of control.

 

[tibor75]

I read a blurb in Newsweek last year about how college administrators get a lot more calls these days from parents complaining about various things - dorm room not big enough, warm enough, classes too big, etc. etc. Seems that when the students don't like something they call Mommy and cry about it. Can't imagine how horrible this is going to be in a few years.

 

[Big Papa]

Like someone stated earlier, this goes perfectly with parents complaining about heavy backpacks, kids pulling backpacks on wheels, etc. Now no more tag? You gotta be fucking kidding me. The sissification of American kids continues.

 

[Best Buckeye]

Next thing you know they will outlaw looking up girls dresses.

 

[Big Papa]

Didn't they also do away with tetherball a while back in most public schools?? I was the tetherball king.

 

[Deety]

Didn't they also do away with tetherball a while back in most public schools?? I was the tetherball king.

Neighbor had a tetherball and a whirly-bird. The tetherball games were fun, but we had to be careful with the whirly-bird. We'd be spinning at full speed (while singing at the top of our lungs) and her brother would sneak up and hit us with sticks before we could slow the contraption down and jump off.

That was the same guy who tried to flush the kitten we gave them down the toilet and frisbee'd frogs into the bug zapper (Thump would have enjoyed the sizzling display and lingering odor). Wonder where's he's locked up these days...

 

[MililaniBuckeye]

...tried to flush the kitten we gave them down the toilet...

Ah, the ol' kitty kommode...

 

[scooter1369]

I fear for our future.

 

[DEBuckeye]

What a bunch of crap. When my kid's old enough, if his school has banned these games, I'm going to be sure I teach him how to play them all- tag, dodgeball, smear the queer, all of them.

 

[BB73]

Must be a budget move. They didn't want to have to give all the kids a trophy for participating.

 

[AKAK]

To be fair... when I was in Elementary school... they didn't let us play smear the queer on the playground. It was blacktop, you see and too many kids got their heads busted open on it. Of course, accross the street was a grass field about 100 by 100 yards... and... we had recess there some days... so... we were allowed to play then.

Only thing they ever banned at my school... we had a May Pole... that's what everyone called it... but... lets just say there were no ribbons. What you had was about a 10 foot steel pole... then...a round steel ring that was about 12 or 15 feet in diameter that was attached to the top of the pole with chains so the rings were 4 or 5 feet off the ground (Think of an umbrella shaped thing). (It was actually 2 rings attached together so a sixth grader could reach the top ring and a 3rd grader could reach the bottom one)

So... what you did was... you got about 10 or 15 kids and they all grabbed on to the ring and you ran as fast as you could in one direction.

Then... when you couldn't run as fast as it was going, you let yourself swing out so your feet were off the ground (happened at different times for different kids) and you were jsut hanging on to the steel ring.

Now... the predictable happened... someone couldn't hold on anymore and fell off... (Please PM Sandgk for a more complete explanation of centrifugal force and angular momentum). The fun thing was that there was a steel chain link fence about 20 feet away... so... if you got this thing going fast enough... and... they let go at the right time... you could bounce 1st graders off the fence....

When I was in the 5th grade... they took 3 kids off the playground on backboards in the ambulance.... blood bounces on asphalt... it really does. and finally got rid of that thing... we were pretty bummed.

Anyway... Yeah... Tag... very, very dangerous.

 

[Taosman]

And the kid's asses get fatter and fatter................
I see a lot more fat kids these days.