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Just when I thought I had seen it all......this tops it...
The pussification of America continues........
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. 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. http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/10/18/no.tag.ap/index.html |
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10-18-2006, 10:00 AM | #2 |
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10-18-2006, 10:03 AM | #3 |
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Honestly.. I can't say I blame the school's in this sue-happy world...
Judges should just throw frivolous lawsuits out of court instead of giving millions when burned by hot coffee
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10-18-2006, 10:06 AM | #4 |
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10-18-2006, 10:12 AM | #10 |
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Maybe we should make our young men pull their pants up real high so that they get the "Man Toe" look.
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Im not playing tag any more .. hurts my vagina....
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Is it ironic that the principals name is "Gaylene"? She probably got teased when she was a kid... poor thing.
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Alright, alright...time to hijack this thread. Somebody finish this sentence....
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