Tag--You're It!
A school in the Boston area has banned kids from playing tag at recess. They say it is because they fear that a child could get hurt and the school could be held liable. Give me a break! Tag? Even worse than the school administrators is the stupid parent quoted at the end about how her son feels safer now that no one can play tag? What are they teaching these kids? That any activity that presents the possibility of being hurt should be avoided? All risk is bad? Feeling "safe" is the most important value of all values? Blech.
posted by 123txpublicdefender123 at 5:23 PM
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I had a friend that dislocated his shoulder playing "red rover." I don't get the tag-ban, though.
Long gone are the days when kids could just be kids, I guess.
I had plenty of friends that got hurt at recess in elementary school--from playing dodgeball or red rover or playing on the bars or jungle gym. That's part of being a kid. This country seems to have gone down a road where there is a pathological need to eliminate all risk from children's lives, and that is a terrible way to prepare them for adulthood, IMO. It also takes a hell of a lot of fun out of being a kid.
Exactly. I just don't get how kids who are that sheltered can be prepared for the "real world."
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