0
JohnRich

Playing "Tag" Banned

Recommended Posts

Well, now this is just unfair to the last kid to be tagged "IT". If anyone is to have an excuse as to why his or her life turns out to be a complete failure it would be this kid. Imagine, having to go through life forever being "IT".
"...And once you're gone, you can't come back
When you're out of the blue and into the black."
Neil Young

Share this post


Link to post
Share on other sites
This sure ain't gonna help with the obesity problem with our kids.

Here Johnny, instead of playing that dangerous game of tag, you have to play tetherball where you can't run around. Oh wait you might get hit w/ the ball, thats too dangerous. Well we could just play on the swings or jungle gym, but you might fall off. We have to ban soccer in case someone accidentally gets kicked. Well now recess will consist of supervised hopscotch on wrestling mats and using foam balls instead of rocks.:S

This is a sad day for our youth.:|



Share this post


Link to post
Share on other sites
We have brought this on ourselves...

Our god has become the almighty dollar. We equate happiness with green in our pockets. Unfortunately, most of us in society will never achieve the level we think we need to be at to be "happy". Along comes an opportunity to get way ahead. We've been wronged, pay us. I spilled hot coffee on myself, pay me, my child fell down, pay me.

We blame the lawyers, but we've empowered them. Why do we pay so much for insurance? Why do we have to fear letting the neighbor kids play in our yards? Our greed is biting us in the ass.

I've been sued in business for the most ridiculous reasons.

I recently had an opportunity to sue and walk away with cash, the owner just couldn't believe that I wouldn't sue him.

Unless we change this culture, it's only going to get worse.

What have we done to our children?

Share this post


Link to post
Share on other sites
Quote

We have brought this on ourselves...



Gone are the days when a kid fell of a jungle gym or hurt himself diving after a nerf ball and the complete and appropriate response was "well that was pretty stupid.....dumbass":D

(I would also like to point out that no dumbasses, real or imagined, were hurt in the creation of this post. Any resemblance to actual events is coincidental. The views expressed in this post do not reflect the views of DZ.com, it's members or affiliates)

Share this post


Link to post
Share on other sites
Here's the sad part of all this. An acquaintence of ours... her child was playing a crab walk game during gym. This is were you are on your hands and your feet with your stomach facing up. To avoid hands getting stepped on, they make the kids take their shoes off. This kid broke his ankle somehow. Tel me he wasn't roughhousing. The mom decided that the school should have to pay the medical bills because they made him take his shoes off.

Never mind her kid is on her ex's military insurance. She fought tooth and nail for that.

It's people like this that cause this stupid crap. [:/]

~ Lisa
~ Do you Rigminder?

Share this post


Link to post
Share on other sites
My best friend is a teacher at this school.

Last year a child got a concussion during 'tag football' and the parents sued to get his medical costs covered. During the last day of school last year two 4th graders 'disappeared' during recess because the teachers were too busy trying to keep track of the girls playing dodge ball and the boys playing football and some other kids playing tag.

Although I don't agree with it, what are the schools supposed to do when the student teacher ration is something like 26:1 now? Its not an easy decision to make, the school spent almost the entire summer debating it - in the end, more supervised activities had to be chosen.


Jen
Arianna Frances

Share this post


Link to post
Share on other sites
Schools have a long history of ignoring bullying in school and on the school bus.

Whats the difference between a friendly game of tag ball and having a group of kids concentrating their efforts on a unpopuler student?

A friendly game of tag ball everyone is evenly matched and everyone has a good time:)
In a unfair game of tag ball The stonger kids (clic) have a good time of picking on the weaker (unpopuler) kids :)

Teachers are to busy to sort this out and split the game into two seperate groups the strong and the weak. Some parents are to busy to educate their kids that bullying weaker kids is unacceptable. So we end up with a band aid that looks stupid.

R.I.P.

Share this post


Link to post
Share on other sites
Quote

Some parents are to busy to educate their kids that bullying weaker kids is unacceptable.



It's ok as long as we know our kid is better at football than that "loser with the broken arm"

...
Driving is a one dimensional activity - a monkey can do it - being proud of your driving abilities is like being proud of being able to put on pants

Share this post


Link to post
Share on other sites
So this isn't about the administrators protecting the kids. It's about the administrators protecting their own liability.



If I had kids in that school district, I'd sue the district for banning tag & other games. Might not have any merit, or even get thrown out of court, but it would be fun to inflict a miserable lawsuit on those assholes in the meantime, especially since they brought it on themselves.

I sometimes think if a busload of school administrators sank in the ocean, I'd feel sorry for the poor bus.....

Your humble servant.....Professor Gravity !

Share this post


Link to post
Share on other sites
Quote

Quote


I sometimes think if a busload of school administrators sank in the ocean, I'd feel sorry for the poor bus.....



:D:D:D

I'm with you man.



School policy is made by elected school boards representing the wishes of the people. School administrators and teachers may be consulted but generally don't make the decisions.
...

The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.

Share this post


Link to post
Share on other sites
Quote

Quote

Quote


I sometimes think if a busload of school administrators sank in the ocean, I'd feel sorry for the poor bus.....



:D:D:D

I'm with you man.



School policy is made by elected school boards representing the wishes of the people. School administrators and teachers may be consulted but generally don't make the decisions.



In our system, the superintentant sets policy, which includes how much latitude individual administrators have at their own schools. The school board either accepts it or negotiates an alternative.

No doubt, the board members have a say, but from what I've seen, the administrators have just as much, if not more.

Share this post


Link to post
Share on other sites
I remember being in the 5th grade and having a grouchy mean teacher take away a ball we were using to play kickball. It was one of those air-filled thin rubber balls, real light... I mean, what the fuck could it do to us? :S

But the monkey bars was sitting over there in the corner and some girl fell out of it and landed on her forehead on the concrete below, getting a nice big gash. :S

It was a religious denomination school anyway, and they don't always have their priorities straight... :|
"Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban

Share this post


Link to post
Share on other sites
Call me a conspiracy theorist, but this is about far more than just protecting the children from injury.

It's about brainwashing them to believe that there are no winners or losers in life's game.

It discourages those who naturally excel, and does not encourage those who would try hard if they were pushed a little bit.

Things like this are the tip of the iceburg.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------


Quote

They recently quit letting kids play football at recess at my little boy's school. This is a sport that he excels at. He understands that football was banned because a kid's arm was broken. He's not discouraged from excelling, and he understands that he's still a better football player than the loser kid who got his arm broke....lol (tongue in cheek).

At least, the broken arm was the excuse the faculty uses.
Improvement in any sport requires time on the field, not just watching it on tv. Restricting a child's ability to improve at anything puts them behind the curve when it comes down to real life. In your son's case, that could be college or pro ball.

The point that I'm making in my original post is that these wussified socialists that run the school systems think that lazy, indifferent people should receive the same reward as those who strive hard to improve their lives.

Share this post


Link to post
Share on other sites
Quote

Quote

Quote

Quote


I sometimes think if a busload of school administrators sank in the ocean, I'd feel sorry for the poor bus.....



:D:D:D

I'm with you man.



School policy is made by elected school boards representing the wishes of the people. School administrators and teachers may be consulted but generally don't make the decisions.



In our system, the superintentant sets policy, which includes how much latitude individual administrators have at their own schools. The school board either accepts it or negotiates an alternative.

No doubt, the board members have a say, but from what I've seen, the administrators have just as much, if not more.



And who appoints the superintendent and can fire him/her?
...

The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.

Share this post


Link to post
Share on other sites
Quote

Quote

In our system, the superintentant sets policy, which includes how much latitude individual administrators have at their own schools. The school board either accepts it or negotiates an alternative.

No doubt, the board members have a say, but from what I've seen, the administrators have just as much, if not more.



And who appoints the superintendent and can fire him/her?



What's your point? That school boards dictate all policy decisions for their scholl system and all of the individual schools?

Getting back to the thread topic, did the school board make the decision to ban tag?

Share this post


Link to post
Share on other sites
Quote

Quote

Quote

In our system, the superintentant sets policy, which includes how much latitude individual administrators have at their own schools. The school board either accepts it or negotiates an alternative.

No doubt, the board members have a say, but from what I've seen, the administrators have just as much, if not more.



And who appoints the superintendent and can fire him/her?



What's your point? That school boards dictate all policy decisions for their scholl system and all of the individual schools?

Getting back to the thread topic, did the school board make the decision to ban tag?



My point is obvious. Place the blame for stupid decisions where it belongs.
...

The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.

Share this post


Link to post
Share on other sites
Quote

Quote

Quote

Quote

In our system, the superintentant sets policy, which includes how much latitude individual administrators have at their own schools. The school board either accepts it or negotiates an alternative.

No doubt, the board members have a say, but from what I've seen, the administrators have just as much, if not more.



And who appoints the superintendent and can fire him/her?



What's your point? That school boards dictate all policy decisions for their scholl system and all of the individual schools?

Getting back to the thread topic, did the school board make the decision to ban tag?



My point is obvious. Place the blame for stupid decisions where it belongs.



Now. How about answering the other two questions. ;)

Share this post


Link to post
Share on other sites
Quote

Quote

Quote

Quote

Quote

In our system, the superintentant sets policy, which includes how much latitude individual administrators have at their own schools. The school board either accepts it or negotiates an alternative.

No doubt, the board members have a say, but from what I've seen, the administrators have just as much, if not more.



And who appoints the superintendent and can fire him/her?



What's your point? That school boards dictate all policy decisions for their scholl system and all of the individual schools?

Getting back to the thread topic, did the school board make the decision to ban tag?



My point is obvious. Place the blame for stupid decisions where it belongs.



Now. How about answering the other two questions. ;)



I don't see two other questions.

How about answering "who appoints the superintendent?"
...

The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.

Share this post


Link to post
Share on other sites
Quote

What's your point? That school boards dictate all policy decisions for their scholl system and all of the individual schools?

Getting back to the thread topic, did the school board make the decision to ban tag?



Those ^^^ two questions. I put them in bold for you.

The school board typically hires the superintendant to run the school system!!!

And getting back to another unanswered question:
Quote

Jefferson was an adulterer? How so?

Share this post


Link to post
Share on other sites
Quote

Quote

What's your point? That school boards dictate all policy decisions for their scholl system and all of the individual schools?

Getting back to the thread topic, did the school board make the decision to ban tag?



Those ^^^ two questions. I put them in bold for you.

The school board typically hires the superintendant to run the school system!!!

And getting back to another unanswered question:
Quote

Jefferson was an adulterer? How so?



But one of those is just your commentary on the first with a "?" at the end. It is not a separate question.

Jefferson was certainly a rapist and most probably an adulterer, given that southern slave owners, whether married or not, customarily screwed their female slaves. We KNOW he screwed at least one of his slaves, and that he kept slaves during his marriage.
...

The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.

Share this post


Link to post
Share on other sites

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.

Guest
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.

0