WASHINGTON (AFP) - Two Massachusetts primary schools this week joined a growing list of US schools that have banned the age-old game of tag for fear that children may get hurt and their parents will sue.
Officials at McCarthy Elementary School in Framingham in the northeastern state, told local media that children have been ordered to invent a new no-contact version of the game for safety reasons.
"If the hands come out to touch, then the supervisors ask them to stop," McCarthy principal Joan Vodoklys was quoted as saying in the Boston Herald on Friday. "What we require is that children do not touch each other."
Gaylene Heppe, the principal at Willett Elementary School also in Massachusetts, said she had approved the ban on the classic playground game out of fear that accidents could happen.
The ban at Willet covers other contact sports such as touch football, another non- or low-contact game standard at US primary and secondary schools only a few years ago.
Elementary schools in the states of Wyoming and Washington have also recently banned tag during recess, in fear that possible injuries could leave the schools legally liable.
Tag, also called "it," "had" and other names, involves one or more players attempting to "tag" others by touching them with their hands, passing on the duty to chase another down and tag them.
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Officials at McCarthy Elementary School in Framingham in the northeastern state, told local media that children have been ordered to invent a new no-contact version of the game for safety reasons.
No-contact tag? How is that even possible?
When I was in grade school we would play football on what was pretty much a parking lot and kids would often get checked into the side of the building.
Of course we were made tougher back in those days and our parents just stocked up on extra band-aids instead of lawyers.
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pretty soon the only thing kids will be able to do at recess is stand still and look at each other... of course they will have to wear helmets and elbow pads...
what a joke.
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For one thing, there’s too much emphasis on safety. Child-proof medicine bottles and fire-proof pajamas, child restraints and car seats and helmets. Bicycle, skateboard, baseball helmets; kids have to wear helmets now a days for everything but jerking off! Grownups have taken all the fun out of being a kid just to save a few thousand lives. It’s *pathetic*. What’s happening is these baby boomers; these soft fruity baby boomers are raising an entire generation of soft fruity kids who aren’t even allowed to have hazardous toys for Christ sakes.
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Estes Elementary School here in Chapel Hill has instituted a new school uniform.
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i feel so bad for kids. they are so overscheduled that they have no time to be just kids, and the things that make childhood fun are being padded, restricted, or banned.
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Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 8:54 pm
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whygodeep wrote:
children have been ordered to invent a new no-contact version of the game for safety reasons.
...And on the 21st of October, 2006, the Childrens Representatives Advocating Playtime (or C.R.A.P.) had an emergency meeting to discuss potential rule changes pertaining to the popular playground game "tag".
"We are working to come to a compromise." Said little Timmy Swain during a five minute recess between meetings. "Unfortunately, the Adults Sanctioned Safety group (or A.S.S.) has demanded that we add a no-contact rule. We think that this is unfair, and we plan on crying about it." Political analysts suggest the strategy may work, citing historical examples of excessive crying has often been a strong strategy for getting their way.
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Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 9:25 pm
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Buggy wrote:
whygodeep wrote:
children have been ordered to invent a new no-contact version of the game for safety reasons.
...And on the 21st of October, 2006, the Childrens Representatives Advocating Playtime (or C.R.A.P.) had an emergency meeting to discuss potential rule changes pertaining to the popular playground game "tag".
"We are working to come to a compromise." Said little Timmy Swain during a five minute recess between meetings. "Unfortunately, the Adults Sanctioned Safety group (or A.S.S.) has demanded that we add a no-contact rule. We think that this is unfair, and we plan on crying about it." Political analysts suggest the strategy may work, citing historical examples of excessive crying has often been a strong strategy for getting their way.
bahahaa!!!
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What about dodgeball?
Hitting kids to score an out in kickball?
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Posted: Sun Oct 22, 2006 9:11 am
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Buggy wrote:
whygodeep wrote:
children have been ordered to invent a new no-contact version of the game for safety reasons.
...And on the 21st of October, 2006, the Childrens Representatives Advocating Playtime (or C.R.A.P.) had an emergency meeting to discuss potential rule changes pertaining to the popular playground game "tag".
"We are working to come to a compromise." Said little Timmy Swain during a five minute recess between meetings. "Unfortunately, the Adults Sanctioned Safety group (or A.S.S.) has demanded that we add a no-contact rule. We think that this is unfair, and we plan on crying about it." Political analysts suggest the strategy may work, citing historical examples of excessive crying has often been a strong strategy for getting their way.
do you think they tried to play a game of tag during this recess just to piss off ASS?
Those things have been banned for a long time at some schools.
obviously by the people who sucked at the game when they were kids.
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This is ridiculous, it will turn all the boys into pussies, the US Army shoud be against that.
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when i was in kindergarten, we had "boys kiss the girls day" and girls kiss the boys day". it turned into a chase game and when you caught someone, you could kiss him/her, and then it started all over again.
this was when i discovered that i cold run faster than all the boys. i never got caught, but i could catch anyone i wanted.
these games are important for children's social development, i fear that if this pathetic trend of protecting kids from all elements of risk, that we will have a generation of socially retarded adults.
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kiddo wrote:
when i was in kindergarten, we had "boys kiss the girls day" and girls kiss the boys day". it turned into a chase game and when you caught someone, you could kiss him/her, and then it started all over again.
this was when i discovered that i cold run faster than all the boys. i never got caught, but i could catch anyone i wanted.
these games are important for children's social development, i fear that if this pathetic trend of protecting kids from all elements of risk, that we will have a generation of socially retarded adults.
Yes, but today's kids have webcam masturbation, so it all sort of evens out, don't you think?
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i feel so bad for kids. they are so overscheduled that they have no time to be just kids, and the things that make childhood fun are being padded, restricted, or banned.
