School bans tag, other chase games

[Sabres Profile ICQ]

Originally posted by [ECGN] BTT
When do these administrators plan on telling the kids that life is exclusionary and dangerous. Or do they hope that the kids will never realize that life has its bumps.

I think we could end this all right now with one simple thing. On the ceiling of every delivery room in every hospital you can put a warning.

"warning life is dangerous. Being born will result in injury and death."

very well put, this sums it up

[petersapien Profile]

Hell tag was banned at my school when I was in freakin grade 2. Mind you we did have a big gravel field but still. All the histeria about how dangerous everything is has only caused more problems. Hell you cant look at something a certian way without being warned that thats dangerous and something is going to blow up. All this has led to is a huge loss in privilages and rights that end up making people so wimpy that a tap on the shouler hurts. At this rate us students are gonna end up in rooms made of nothing but padding by the time I reach grade 12. Pathedic.

[Namloot Profile Website]

We played "Fox and Geese" in high school, a massacre worse than rugby.

[TChicken Profile]

Help limits the lawsuits probably. Child hurt having fun? Don't sue the school, they banned fun.

[CodeRed68 Profile]

It's more "parents getting out of responsibility" for taking care of thier kids. They can't be inconvenienced to take thier kid to the doctor or hospital for some stitches. That would interfere with thier 10 hour work day and they actually may have to spend a few minutes raising thier children.
Both parents are working to afford thier new McMansion that they had to have because all thier friends got one. And they need to pay for all the gas thier Hummer sucks up. Hey and in the McMansion you need to text or IM each other that dinner is ready.
One kids parents probably sued out of the millions that play tag and now everyone has to suffer. No fun for you.
Oh and no bookbags (backpacks) in school to carry all your pens, pencils, notebooks, text books, homework, etc. You have to carry all that stuff loose and out in the open so you can drop it every 2 feet because a few kids took guns to school. Sorry, you 50 million school kids might have guns too so no book bag for you.

[=ender= Profile]

What next? Swingsets, jungle gyms, playing kickball, recess, sports, and then walking in the halls?

Pretty soon, they'll outlaw going to school altogether.

What really burns me is how one parent's son feels safer since the banning of Tag. "'I've witnessed enough near collisions,' she said."

Great. Now that her son is safe from any physical and potentially emotional harm, he can grow up to be the next Eric Harris or Dylan Klebold. Make sure you keep him from those evil video games too, mom.

Pathetic.

[Darknut Profile]

I knew a guy who was sheltered his entire life and once he moved out he wasn't socially functional. He doesn't know what to do or talk about around other people so he just copies what you do.

School has gotten much worse, my nephew isn't taught how to spell or read phonetically. They do everything on the computer and they are taught to rely on the spell check. The kids don't understand that spell check will only mark a word as incorrect if the word isn't a real word and that spell check doesn't know what you intended to write.

His school also doesn't have recess either. I'm waiting for P.E. to get banned. In all seriousness, kids rarely have any significant injuries at school but yet we are a society of "once is too much". Society complains about kids not getting out of the house enough and being out of shape and yet at the same time they do everything they can to prevent them from doing just that.

[gowhitesox99 Profile]

yup yup smeer the queer, we played it too. If you had the ball, you got tackled and the ball taken from you. The tougher you were, the longer you held onto the ball, that game kicked ass. Then we went to 5 on 5 smeer the queer, added a whole different dimension.

Did anyone play butts up against a wall? You threw the ball as hard as you could at the wall, if the guy catching it didnt catch it clean and dropped it, he had to touch the wall before someone pelted him with the ball. If you got hit before touching the wall, i was an out, 3 outs and you have to stand against the wall, ass out and everyone gets one shot with the ball. We played for about 2 months before getting banned. We used a tennis ball btw.

[Evan Profile Website]

Originally posted by gowhitesox99
yup yup smeer the queer, we played it too. If you had the ball, you got tackled and the ball taken from you. The tougher you were, the longer you held onto the ball, that game kicked ass. Then we went to 5 on 5 smeer the queer, added a whole different dimension.

Did anyone play butts up against a wall? You threw the ball as hard as you could at the wall, if the guy catching it didnt catch it clean and dropped it, he had to touch the wall before someone pelted him with the ball. If you got hit before touching the wall, i was an out, 3 outs and you have to stand against the wall, ass out and everyone gets one shot with the ball. We played for about 2 months before getting banned. We used a tennis ball btw.

We played "Suicide Wall Ball" that way.

We played "Bacon" where there was one football in the middle of a circle of kids and then something happens when the first kid gets to it.

We played kickball, and in high school our schools had something called "matball" which was actually more fun than kickball.

We played touch football, soccer, Ultimate Frisbee (awesome sport). We got near violent and aggressive. We even tackled the PE teachers and knocked them over when they would get into the game too. They did it to us, we did it to them. No one got hurt and no one cried. We enjoyed ourselves.

Most importantly though.. we had fun. Our education system now is a joke. We aren't taught, we are forcefed an education. We (in America) are expected to memorize and learn the technique of a problem and to find the answer and pass a test, rather than actually being TAUGHT.

We need more parents, more alumni, and more students to stand up for our own education system.

Stop playing it safe and allow kids to be kids.

Stop playing safe and let the kids decide what they want to learn (ie. Divine Creation vs. Evolution).

Stop playing it safe and actually TEACH for once.

Don't judge an education by the tests we are forced to take.

It's sad, but the classes I actually LEARNED something in were my Electronics classes, Phys Ed, Health, and low level sciences (physical science, biology - not physics or chemistry).

The one thing in high school that I actually learned something from was doing theater. It was all hands on. It required coming up with practical solutions, creativity, and the ability to THINK. No one had to force feed what I "needed to know" for me to do my job in theater. I was allowed to do what I want, how I wanted (mostly). I did things the school would have thrown a hissy fit about (ie. climb on ladders in school, use the Genie lift in school, climbing light poles 25 feet off the ground, etc.). The school turned its head on all that because what we did was actually productive, educational, and creative. I learned so much more doing theater than anything else in school.

We need to change our educational system. Now.