Give me a break

[rylan]

School bans playing tag during recess.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/10/18/no.tag.ap/index.html

[ZokesPro]

Kids are going to get hurt no matter what unless you keep them tied down in a padded cell, so what's the point on banning kids games? Kids will find another game to play and most probably will get hurt playing it either way. They can even get hurt just by walking (trip over something or themselves), are they going to ban walking too? When will this nonsense stop?

[Brian Ellis]

Bloody ridiculous!

[az]

Idiots.

[Fluff]

How will they learn.

[KvHagedorn]

They have nothing to learn.. teachers become teachers because they think they are perfect and want to play God.

These kids will probably wind up so weak from lack of exercise that they will hurt themselves much more easily. What stupidity.

[dbdg]

How will they learn.

The next step is to employ 'potential damage' staff, they will go from class to class marking in red pen on the children the areas that could have been hurt, cuts, bruises, scrapes had they been allowed to have fun.

[RhinoZ]

Geez, you remember the games we used to play. British bulldog, Red rover, King of the Hill. We were asking to get hurt in those games
And we had some tough tomgirls play with us too.

[dbdg]

Geez, you remember the games we used to play. British bulldog, Red rover, King of the Hill. We were asking to get hurt in those games
And we had some tough tomgirls play with us too.

Yep, wasn't fun unless you felt sore afterwards.

[KvHagedorn]

Getting cuts and scrapes actually builds your immune system, which is essential when you are young. Someone needs to sue the school for not letting this happen, as well as letting muscles atrophy. THEN they would realize what stupid wussbags they are being.

[The PIT]

I can remember British Bulldog being banned. We used to love it. Its' fear of being sued more than anything.

[Dr Mordrid]

Yep, wasn't fun unless you felt sore afterwards.

[Mehen]

We used to play British Bulldog at hockey practice - that was bad @ss!

At hockey we would also play one similar to British Bulldog, but instead of trying to catch people as they skated across the rink, we would shoot pucks at their feet from the side boards

King of the Hill was awesome too - on all the big snowpiles in winter.


Why don't they just ban recess already and make all the kids sit inside and play xbox and eat oreo's?

[Jessterw]

These are the sort of people who look at me strange at my son's soccer games... while I'm yelling, "they have shin guards on for a reason!"

This is about as stupid as those schools that decided to cancel recess altogether once upon a time.

[rylan]

Yup... kids will be coming out of school so coddled and protected that they won't know what to do in the real world.
College will be quite a shock too.