Okay, this is just stupid. Please tell me the upsides of being a kid these days? You get to dress like a skank, but not play TAG? You can play video games that you can shoot cops... but you can't play TAG?! You can get super-sized meals at McDonalds (for the game peices
) but you can't play freaking TAG?! touch football!? oh... my... gosh.
When I was in elementary school people got hurt every day because we played full contact soccer. Slide tackling for the win!
EDIT: here's the link to the actual article:
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/10/18/no.tag.ap/index.html
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School bans tag, other chase games
ATTLEBORO, Massachusetts (AP) -- Tag, you're out!
Officials at an elementary school south of Boston 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.
Recess is "a time when accidents can happen," said Willett Elementary School Principal Gaylene Heppe, who approved the ban.
While there is no districtwide ban on contact sports during recess, local rules have been cropping up. Several school administrators around Attleboro, a city of about 45,000 residents, took aim at dodgeball a few years ago, saying it was exclusionary and dangerous. (Watch how second-grader Kelsey interpreted the rule -- 1:30)
Elementary schools in Cheyenne, Wyoming, and Spokane, Washington, also recently banned tag during recess. A suburban Charleston, South Carolina, school outlawed all unsupervised contact sports.
"I think that it's unfortunate that kids' lives are micromanaged and there are social skills they'll never develop on their own," said Debbie Laferriere, who has two children at Willett, about 40 miles south of Boston. "Playing tag is just part of being a kid."
Another Willett parent, Celeste D'Elia, said her son feels safer because of the rule. "I've witnessed enough near collisions," she said.
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