Comments on: Virginia School Bans Tag and Touch Football

By: Maggie's Farm

Maggie's Farm — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:04:34 +0000

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By: bascartz

bascartz — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 03:58:42 +0000

I agree that the game should be banned. A few years back my 20yr. old had her wrist broken by kids saying they were playing tag durring recess. She didn't even know she was in the game. Sometimes it's innocent, sometimes its a game of push & shove, where some of the "players" don't even know they are involved in the game. Kids today don't play by the rules. Overall they are rule brakers, on the playground, the classroom and everywhere else.

By: just me

just me — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:42:19 +0000

Our elementary school banned tag. Touch football is still allowed.

They have also made a huge deal out of chasing in general, which is dumb.

Part of it is concern for lawsuits, not sure what the other part is, but I feel dumb telling kids they can[t play tag or chase each other.

By: James Joyner

James Joyner — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:24:55 +0000

When was bungee-jumping and scuba diving even an option at school? Man, my recess sucked.

Indeed. I'm presuming some school managed to get an extracurricular club going to do those things, or just applied to do that, and they wrote a rule against it.

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:23:10 +0000

When was bungee-jumping and scuba diving even an option at school? Man, my recess sucked.

By: Hal

Hal — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:13:24 +0000

At that point the lazy unionists can spend all of their time converting kids to homosexuality and pro-terrorist sentiment.

Yea, I'd have to agree. That's really the only point to all this PC stuff.

By: Triumph

Triumph — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 17:30:55 +0000

This is typical liberal pandering. McClean, VA is the Berkeley of Virginia where the entire school system is controlled by the teachers union. The next thing you know they will try and close down classes, saying that learning is too risky.

At that point the lazy unionists can spend all of their time converting kids to homosexuality and pro-terrorist sentiment.

By: John Burgess

John Burgess — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 17:02:32 +0000

That activity had an even less politically correct name in the time and place in which I was a child. The good thing about it was that the 'game' could be aimed at any/everyone, including the bullies. It provided the opportunity for victims to get in a lick otherwise unavailable to them.

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:30:20 +0000

I see they blame it in part on overcrowding. It would be nice if one of the nation's richest counties would instead simply invest enough in its schools so that the kids had enough room to play the way kids have for generations. Property tax revenues have doubled in less than a decade, the median household income of $100K+ is the highest in the country, and yet the county still doesn't fully fund all-day kindergarten like we are Bangladesh and can't afford it. Perhaps they could get some of the money by cutting whichever bureaucracy spends its time worrying about tag.

By: rodney dill

rodney dill — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:56:12 +0000

http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/21281586/

Didn't take too long

By: rodney dill

rodney dill — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:54:58 +0000

I remember fairly recently a news report, I think at a junior school, where someone had wrapped a rope around their hand for tug-of-war and essentially lost several fingers or a hand in the process. I think the report used the word 'severed.' My curiosity is up so now I will have to google it.