Tuesday, April 15, 2008
The Game of Tag Banned!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
Click on the link to read an article about the most ridiculous example of Nanny State-ness in a long time. So apparently a Principal in Virginia wants the game of tag....yes you read that right, Tag as in tag you're it....banned. Why???? Because it's become too aggressive. Of course it is....it's tag!!!! You chase someone and smack them on the arm then run away. The complaint was that too many kids are going to the nurses office. Duh!!! They're....wait for it....KIDS!!!!! You know, crazy, active, running, jumping, climbing doing stupid crap and falling on their arses or scrapping a knee or two. KIDS!!!! This dumbass principal was shocked at the parents reaction.....in other words when she had a PTA meeting to announce this the parents of these kids basically said "Are you freaking kidding me?????". If some kids are being schmucks, then send those kids to the Principal's office and discipline them. Leave the other kids alone. So these kids can't play football, run, or play tag. Hmmmm......and they wonder why kids are so damn fat.
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I remember we played "kill" during recess. Basic rules really: everyone is "IT", except the guy with the regulation football. He chases after people and attempts to throw the ball at everyone else's heads. If he succeeds, then the guy who got hit has a chance for revenge OR displace his pain onto someone else. I must say, we all survived those times both physically and emotionally.
Exactly. When I first moved to the City that shall not be named....for the Discourser's sake anyway....they were in the process of building a connecter freeway. It was taking awhile. We would go up there on the weekends and play on the construction site. Two trenches (the soft shoulders) and two large piles of rocks made for a great game of "huck rocks at your buddy....". We all survived and no one got hurt.
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