Has school destroyed your creativity and self-confidence? I'm working on a book called Recovering From School, to help you heal the damage caused. Join the Patreon or Newsletter to be notified about updates. Paid Patreon members will get early draft previews, as well as a free digital copy when it's done.
School Bans Tag After Parents Complain
A Colorado Springs elementary school is banning the game of tag on its playground -- after some children complained that they'd been chased or harassed against their will.
Assistant Principal Cindy Fesgen of the Discovery Canyon Campus school said running games will be allowed, as long as students don't chase each other.
Fesgen said two parents complained to her about the ban, but most parents and children didn't object.
Two elementary schools in the nearby Falcon School District did away with tag and similar games in 2005 in favor of alternatives with less physical contact. Officials at Evans and Meridian Ranch elementaries say that encouraged more students to play games, and helped reduce playground squabbles.
Colorado Springs schools are not alone. Schools in Cheyenne, Wyo., Spokane, Wash., and Attleboro, Mass., have banned tag at recess. A suburban Charleston, S.C., school not only banned tagged, but outlawed all unsupervised contact sports.
Posted by: Darthmat
Source Article
Where to next? Pick one!
- Check out the Alternatives to School section
- Join our Patreon
- Sign up for our newsletter
Posted in: News on August 29, 2007 @ 12:00 AM
Tags: School
If you like what we're doing here, you can become a Patron and sign up for our newsletter!
talk about zero tolerance.
Oh my freaking god.
When will the American school system realize the problems with zero tolerance and do away with it?
FUCK THAT. That's complete BULLSHIT. Banning ALL unsupervised sports. That...ugh. Makes me so mad.
this doesn't even make sense. why not just punish the kids that are harassing others?
oh this is kind of stupid,dosen't make any sense
I find this a little ironic. They want us to be healthy and play outside instead of video games, and then they ban the most fun game of all.
That's right, ban all forms of physical contact. Soon there will be no excuses whatsoever to touch another human being. At least not unsupervised ... o0
WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OMFG OMFG OMFG OMFG OMFG WUT!?!?!
WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA?!?!
wtf!!! that is beyond words, its just so stupid, u kno in that banning stupid stuff conversation, i think this is one of the best ones.
round those people up and bring them to me they deserve to be shot. and they say society is moving forward.
this happened in forth grade everyone protested!