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They were talking about this on the radio this morning and a mom called in to the show. She said her third grade son had been given a one day in school suspension for touching another student during recess. They were playing "cops and robbers" and the kid had the other boy's hands behind his back walking him to jail.

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tibor75;915248; said:
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.
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I tell you what, I'm dropping the kid off at college for his Freshman year pretty soon.

Missus and I then go for a well deserved mini-vacation over Labor Day Weekend ...

a location which we know to have zero cell phone service.

We're going to accept no "Hello Mother, Hello Father" calls this weekend.

He is well prepared and well supplied our son, if he gets into something of a fix he can handle it on his own. Being away from home and handling his own issues is all part of the growing up process.
 
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AKAKBUCK;915459; said:
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.

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. :roll2:
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My school's playground was concrete, with stones all over the place. I think they cleared away used razor blades, but that was about it.

Times have changed.
 
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Red Rover, Red Rover, Let AKAK "accidentally" run at full speed and put a forearm shiver into the kid who just intentionally clotheslined his best friend.
 
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I first thought this thread was about annoying stinky body spray.

Yeah, tag, physical contact... we are doomed. Maybe they could just have all thee students only contact each other for interaction via their myspace page, or facebook. That would teach them social skills.... :shake:
 
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scooter1369;915473; said:
They were talking about this on the radio this morning and a mom called in to the show. She said her third grade son had been given a one day in school suspension for touching another student during recess. They were playing "cops and robbers" and the kid had the other boy's hands behind his back walking him to jail.

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C'mon Scoot. How do you think it made that little kid feel when he was categorized as a robber? He may be scarred for life, or worse destined for a life of crime.

And just in case you didn't know. Putting someones hands behind their back is a signal that he was looking for gay sex. It is widely known in the playground community.

That kid is lucky he did not get expelled.
 
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Taosman;915470; said:
And the kid's asses get fatter and fatter................
I see a lot more fat kids these days.
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Yeah, well when you start taking away games like Dodgeball, Tag and Hide and Go Seek you suddenly remove any exercise that fatty would get. I mean these three games were pretty much designed to punish someone for being fat.

Too fat to run, too big to hide.
 
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Nanny-state laws. Some seem like a good idea and some so obviously not. And yet, more and more of them are allowed. "Oh our kids are so fat whatever will we do?" So we ban sugary snacks in school but turn around and ban any kind of exercise they might get as well. Bleh.

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Running games are still allowed as long as students don't chase each other, she said.
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.
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what games are these exactly?

School officials said the move encouraged more students to play games and helped reduce playground squabbles.
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aaaaaaaaaaaaaahhh theres that other shoe!

translation: we as educators are far to busy flirting with our coworkers to actually watch the demon spawn you have placed in our care. so rather than do our jobs (which your utter lack of parental skill has made all but impossible), we are simply going to make any activity that requires us to actually work against the rules.


Didn't some school ban dodgeball last year?
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if i remember correctly, teaching the declaration of Independence is illegal in cali.
 
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OCBucksFan;915241; said:
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.
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That's a good quote, but it's a little misplaced. It's not as if the kids are the ones banning tag and other normal shit. It's these kids parents that are doing it, and not knowing when to tell their kids to stop crying, suck it up, spit on it & walk it off, etc. So I think it's more appropriate to say that this is the SECOND generation that is "less hardcore" than their parents, because today's parents collectively are way bigger wusses than the people that raised them.
 
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I broke a kid's collarbone in second grade playing smear the queer. Not intentionally mind you, what 2nd grader knows to avoid the tetherball pole when playing a game?. Anyway, guess what happened the VERY NEXT DAY? ...


Nothing. It was an accident. We were playing the same game next day. The kid in the sling? He was playing again once the sling came off.

FWIW, we didn't wear bike helmets either ... ooooooooohh. Car seats? Are you kidding me?
 
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