Anonymous
02/29/2012 19:11
Subject: Has your elem. school banned 'tag'?
Anonymous wrote:My kid plays tag at recess virtually every day and comes home filthy. That makes me very happy.
Public or private?
Anonymous
02/29/2012 19:04
Subject: Has your elem. school banned 'tag'?
My kid plays tag at recess virtually every day and comes home filthy. That makes me very happy.
Anonymous
02/29/2012 18:58
Subject: Has your elem. school banned 'tag'?
Anonymous wrote:Our school banned "cops and robbers" or any violent game. Said it "incites violent behavior."
Jesus, we are all a bunch of pussies.
No wonder the kids have started shooting up schools. Going to school in this day and age would make a sane person crack.
Anonymous
02/29/2012 18:51
Subject: Has your elem. school banned 'tag'?
Our school banned "cops and robbers" or any violent game. Said it "incites violent behavior."
Anonymous
02/29/2012 18:39
Subject: Has your elem. school banned 'tag'?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Apparently, any game involving running and chasing is banned at our puss-bag school.
Actually, a fair amount of bullying goes on during the run and chase games. And, kids as young as kindergarten are doing the bullying. That's why it's banned in our school.
Give me a fucking break. You are creating victims with these policies. I think we need the parents that want to allow their kids to play tag, dodge ball, etc. sign to sign waivers.The pussies' kids can go play tiddlywinks.
Kids like to play, and sometimes, they get hurt. There is a lesson in getting up, brushing yourself off, and getting back in the game. And if teachers or administrators were actually watching the kids, they would be able to see if a child is being bullied on the playground and intervene. Banning running and chasing is why we have so many fat asses in this country.
Who doesn't remember playing tag or chase or just running around for no good reason on the school playground. Sure, we sometimes fell. I once split my lip open and my mom picked me up from the nurse's office. She didn't question who caused it to happen or insist that this harmful running game be banned. give.me.a.fucking.break.
+1
Anonymous
02/29/2012 18:24
Subject: Re:Has your elem. school banned 'tag'?
Nope. I picked private school for many reasons, but in part because I wanted my kid to play tag at recess and have Halloween and Valentine's Day parties.
Anonymous
02/29/2012 18:15
Subject: Re:Has your elem. school banned 'tag'?
Anonymous wrote:Stop blaming "the lawyers"--I doubt it was them. Lawyers don't usually talk people into suing, and often spend a fair amount of their consultations telling clients they don't have strong cases. It's just that people are crazy, period.
agree, lawyers (including me) often spend lots of time talking hysterical or unreasonable clients with inflated expectations, from pursuing their fucked up self-important agendas ... helicopter parents come in all stripes, professions, colors, shapes, etc.
blame them, not one profession.
Anonymous
02/29/2012 17:35
Subject: Has your elem. school banned 'tag'?
Anonymous wrote:Tag was recently banned from Bethesda Elementary due to a child running into a metal pole. Pretty traumatic injury requiring lots of stitches to the head.
When my DS was four he broke his thumb badly and bonked his head because he was playing soccer in a gym and ran into the wall. I can't decide whether we should ban soccer, gyms, or walls. Opinions?
Anonymous
02/29/2012 17:22
Subject: Has your elem. school banned 'tag'?
Anonymous wrote:Tag was recently banned from Bethesda Elementary due to a child running into a metal pole. Pretty traumatic injury requiring lots of stitches to the head.
Ouch. Freak accident though. Why should all poles and all running be banned from here on out? Lesson to kids: 'watch where you are running'. I yell this to my kids on a daily basis as they bike full speed ahead while turning around to talk to me at the same time. My little one likes to watch his reflection in store windows as he runs by--tripping on things as he goes.
My kid ran into a wrought iron gate outside of a Starbucks requiring a trip to the ER...I didn't try to sue Starbucks or not allow him to run anymore.
Anonymous
02/29/2012 17:10
Subject: Has your elem. school banned 'tag'?
Anonymous wrote:Tag was recently banned from Bethesda Elementary due to a child running into a metal pole. Pretty traumatic injury requiring lots of stitches to the head.
Ok, falling or any kind of outdoor activity can cause breaks, and then need for stiches.
Falling off of the playground equipment can cause injury as well.
Should we just ban all play because there is a potential for a kid to get hurt?
What is left, sitting in the grass?
Where do you draw the line?
Anonymous
02/29/2012 17:09
Subject: Has your elem. school banned 'tag'?
Anonymous wrote:Tag was recently banned from Bethesda Elementary due to a child running into a metal pole. Pretty traumatic injury requiring lots of stitches to the head.
And that was somehow the fault of the game? Nobody can conceive of the idea that perhaps a child could run into a pole because the child was....running? Is that next?
My son fell off a retaining wall (landscape type) where he was running on the top of it. Guess they couldn't figure out how to ban anything, and we figured he learned his (hard) lesson about paying attention to where he was running.
Anonymous
02/29/2012 17:02
Subject: Has your elem. school banned 'tag'?
Tag was recently banned from Bethesda Elementary due to a child running into a metal pole. Pretty traumatic injury requiring lots of stitches to the head.
Anonymous
02/29/2012 16:03
Subject: Has your elem. school banned 'tag'?
As a kid, I broke my arm roller skating. My best friend broke her leg (thigh bone) when her horse rolled on it. My neighbor burned his eyelashes, eyebrows, and half his hair while playing with fireworks. Another boy broke his leg on his brother's bicycle. We laughed about all this incidents at our 20th reunion last year. We had a blast growing up. We felt bad for the world our children live in.
Anonymous
02/29/2012 16:03
Subject: Re:Has your elem. school banned 'tag'?
There was a thread because a 4 yr. old boy called the OP's DD "Miss Muffet," and most PP encouraged her to tell the teacher or call the kid's parents! In fact, the little boy apparently said, "Miss Muffet...away," and someone talked about "hurtful" this was to the other child. The little girl wasn't even complaining and simply told her mother who had the meltdown. It is helicoptering moms who have created these absurd rules.
Anonymous
02/29/2012 16:01
Subject: Has your elem. school banned 'tag'?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:For the love of all that is holy, the wussification of American kids continues. The same people who ban tag are the same type of people who don't want to keep score in kids' sports games.
I would take this up with the administration.
you can't be serious
You can't be serious youself?? You don't know of this trend? There are no winners and losers
you're not making any sense.
r u saying:
ban tag = don't want to keep score in kids' sports games
therefore
ban tag = There are no winners and losers
therefore
ban tag = kids/parents afraid of losing?
DCUM has messed up your brain.