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US: School bans tag, other chase games
Officials at an elementary school south of Boston have banned kids from playing tag, touch football and any other unsupervised chase game during recess for fear they'll get hurt and hold the school liable.
Recess is "a time when accidents can happen," said Willett Elementary School Principal Gaylene Heppe, who approved the ban.
While there is no districtwide ban on contact sports during recess, local rules have been cropping up. Several school administrators around Attleboro, a city of about 45,000 residents, took aim at dodgeball a few years ago, saying it was exclusionary and dangerous.
Elementary schools in Cheyenne, Wyoming, and Spokane, Washington, also recently banned tag during recess. A suburban Charleston, South Carolina, school outlawed all unsupervised contact sports.
"I think that it's unfortunate that kids' lives are micromanaged and there are social skills they'll never develop on their own," said Debbie Laferriere, who has two children at Willett, about 40 miles south of Boston. "Playing tag is just part of being a kid."
Another Willett parent, Celeste D'Elia, said her son feels safer because of the rule. "I've witnessed enough near collisions," she said.
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Posted in: News on October 23, 2006 @ 12:00 AM
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So they're covering their asses. Motherfuckers.
with school poliscies like hthis, it's no wonder there is an obesity pandemic.
How stupid I'm sick of all this useless garbage the schools use for an excuse. Kids lives can't be controled like this. Honestly we put kids in school and then take all the fun out of it and then they wonder why we hate it
i remember tag was banned in my school back in 4th grade. i was miserable.