School ban's "Tag", Touch football, and other "chase" games.

It's not about hurting feelings and damaging self-esteem. It's about liability. Can't really blame the school for trying to minimize the risk of getting sued by litigation-happy parents when Little Billy falls and bruises his forehead during a game of tag.

Blame society, not the evil Liberals for this one.
 
I remember when a bunch of loony lib teachers tried to ban grades. They said that giving low grades hurts students self esteem. Ironically such a system could only come from adults who lack self esteem themselves.
 
It's truely a sad statement to say that a school is afraid of being sued or taken to court by a parent because their child fell down while playing tag, or some other sport. Hey, why don't we just put PS3s and XBOX 360s in the schools so they can play football and basketball without getting hurt! Wait wait...they might play violent video games and get the idea to shoot up the school, can't do that. Liabilities and stupid lawsuits are going to kill the judicial system. Oh well...no child left behind right? -BamaXD
 
Mark, I hate to disagree with you but it IS about self esteem and avoiding hurting feelings. Hopefully things are different in Tennessee but I lived in Minnesota for many years and many schools didn't allow scorekeeping at games because all of the kids are "winners" so calling anyone a loser would hurt thier feelings. Similarly, games like dodgeball are less common for that same reason. Now the good old game of DB we all played as kids with the big textured rubber balls that stung like crap when you got hit and always made somebody cry, (hee hee) are looooonng gone. Now, if they play it at all, its with the nerfy foam balls that you couldn't possibly hurt anyone with. That switch was done for liability. Doing away with the game completely was done for political, leftist reasons. Notice the article said it was, "exclusionary" and I think the dangerousness was just to bolster thier argument. I guarentee that no kid has been hurt with one of those nerf balls for years.
 
Schools have also banned great works of literature, and nobody really cares. Now, they ban certain touch sports and activities and it is all over the news. If you are worried about your child's physical condition, play with them, go outside and toss the ball around.

Everybody is worried about fairness and treating everyone equal that we are turning the next generation into a bunch of wusses. Kids are meant to fall down and bang their kness, they are meant to get into little quarrels wiht each other and work it out themselves. That is all part of groing up, and if people don't stop codling them, when that generation gets into power, all the other countries are going to walk all over us!
 
Marko said:
Can't really blame the school for trying to minimize the risk of getting sued by litigation-happy parents when Little Billy falls and bruises his forehead during a game of tag.
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Isn't this one of the purposes of sovereign immunity?

How can it be so hard for individuals to sue when they're rendered helpless by the state and become victims of violent crime, yet if Little Billy falls and scrapes his knee on concrete at school, it's the school's fault for having recess or for not rubber-coating sidewalks?
 
I am with you on that. It is time these wacky parents get their heads out of you know where are start acting like real men and women, like how it was when my grandfather's generation.

Those kind of codling, wimpy, prideless(for lack of a better term, yes I know it is not a word), jerks are what is killing this country from the inside out!
 
Well they've started adding musical chairs to the list of banned games now. Its about freaking time! :D

Nationwide, physical education classes are branching out from traditional physical education to include activities such as in-line skating, weight training and adventure activities to appeal to more students, said Judith Young, executive director for the Reston, Va.- based National Association for Sport and Physical Education.

The association, which represents more than 18,000 gym teachers and professors, no longer advocates dodgeball. The group publishes a journal that long ago placed dodgeball in its "physical education hall of shame" where it joined games like musical chairs and duck, duck goose. Both require children to chase each other, risking injury.
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4196/is_20010408/ai_n10687860
 
If only they had Patches O'Houlihan to teach them how to properly play dodgeball, there might still be interest in playing it... After all, if you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball. -BamaXD
 
I'd have to agree things are really getting ridiculous anymore. My son's school did away with the Halloween carnival this year because of its----oooooh, are you ready for this one? *EVIL INTENT* Apparently a bunch with enough say-so decided it was psychologically damaging to children to celebrate a holiday that involved ghosts and such... GIMME A FREAKING BREAK!!
 
I don't think I've ever been gladder that I left the public school system after the 4th grade. :mad:

All of my favorite recess games would be banned now. Capture the flag, duck duck goose.

After Hurricane Bertha, my parents moved down to the coast for a few months to work for the state by clearing roads & such. I had to go to school down there:barf: . After school, I would have to stay in their after school club because my folks would work until 5PM or so. After homework time, you could go outside & play.

At their playground, if 1 student from one grade got hurt on ANY of the equipment in the yard, NOBODY else from that grade could play on those rides ever again. That meant that if I followed the rules, I wouldn't be able to swing or play on the monkey bars. Those were my favorite activities.

I played on them anyway:cool: . They would then punish me by making me sit in the corner. I must have spent more time in that corner than Nelson Mandella!

The moral of the story is to teach your kids to tell the PC people to go pound sand. Those teachers are trying to break your kids spirit & will so that they'll be drones. Molon Labe!
 
Concerning Dodgeball, I'm 26, and we played. We played in the middle-school gymnasium, with orange Nerf soccer balls. They weren't so light as to make it impossible to put some hurt on 'em! Man ... that was fun! I couldn't play worth a FLIP, but that was still fun!

Concerning Halloween, I think Hank Hill said it best:

Hank: "You get CANDY!"
Religious Nut Neighbor: "You'll go to HELL!"
Hank" "But you'll get CANDY!"
 
Soon recess is going to turn into kids sitting in glass cubes looking at birds. Better yet, why not keep the kids in the cubes all day long. That way nobody can get beat up or have spit wads thrown at them.:barf:

Kids these days clearly need more exercise and parents need more common sense. Have parents sign a waiver that limits the amount the school can be held liable for or something, but get these kids moving!
 
Christ...

When I was a kid we used to play full-contact football with no pads or helmets during lunch. We thought dodge-ball was pretty soft, you couldn't even break a bone with one.

This next generation will be pretty lame football players, or are they going to ban high-school football too?

If they think this will make kids more docile they are nuts. If they don't have some sort of vigerous activity to blow off steam there are going to be some delinquent freaks in the making with this.
 
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