Harassed by tag?

[sweet angel]

Hopscotch? Probably promotes improper bending and lifting techniques...

 

[DISUNC]

It is apparant that it is ok for for the school officials (who placed this ban) to smoke crack!

EVERY KID knows all ya gotta do is cross your fingers and you can't be "IT". Thats the LAW!

 

[Southern4sure]

Jump rope is the new hang man.

 

[sweet angel]

It is apparant that it is ok for for the school officials (who placed this ban) to smoke crack!

EVERY KID knows all ya gotta do is cross your fingers and you can't be "IT". Thats the LAW!

Really? I didn't know that! I think we just yelled "NOT IT!!!!!!!!!!!"

 

[drivencrazy]

Guess this isn't new news here... my kids haven't been able to play tag at school for the last few years... We were in one district and couldn't play there, moved to a new district and can't play here.............

No wonder why it is one of the games the kids play all the time here or at the park...


Sad but true.

What I thought was off the wall... my daughter (4th grade) was telling me that there was a second grade teacher telling everyone that "NOBODY is allowed to play on the playground till after 4 p.m. on school days." At our school there are NO BUSES so many parents pick up their children and let them play at the playground for a bit now the teachers are saying NO to this... Holy Cow... the park belongs to the city, not the school, so I know it won't last long. And when we go up there to pick her up, you better know that we will play (she has been riding her bike so we haven't been up there yet)!!!!!

 

[DISUNC]

Really? I didn't know that! I think we just yelled "NOT IT!!!!!!!!!!!"

Not on my block! One can yell "NOT IT", all they want, but unless you had your fingers crossed it was defenseless.

This also warded of the Cooties!

 

[sumrmist]

Not on my block! One can yell "NOT IT", all they want, but unless you had your fingers crossed it was defenseless.

This also warded of the Cooties!

I thought it was the circle circle dot dot now you got your cooties shot , that warded off cooties?

 

[sweet angel]

I thought it was the circle circle dot dot now you got your cooties shot , that warded off cooties?

That's what it was in my neighborhood.

 

[hiwaygal]

Heaven forbid leap frog

that can be deadly for unicorns

red rover is a no no. It's a popularity contest.

It's also discriminatory against other colors.

 

[DISUNC]

I thought it was the circle circle dot dot now you got your cooties shot , that warded off cooties?

Wouldnt be caught dead in Brooklyn as a kid saying "circle circle dot dot now you got your cooties shot"

 

[PatsGirl]

Well, it 's time to bring back Rollerball and find out who rules

 

[Tiffer]

Unbelievable. Be prepared...dodge ball will be the next form of harrassment.

red rover is a no no. It's a popularity contest.

Both of these games have already been banned in alot of schools.

No wonder we have a nation of entitled, obese, prima donnas.

 

[Merriwind]

Thanking my lucky stars that DD's school not only encourages tag, hide and seek, four square and kickball---but dodgeball is the 3rd and 4th grade's favorite PE activity. I love her school!

So sad that kids are being forbidden to play active, classic outdoor games by misguided school administrators too easily swayed by whining parents.

(DD's neighborhood school was talking about banning tag two years ago, but we were on our way out of there, so I didn't pay much attention.)

 

[Becky2005]

OMG...I opened this looking at your tags thinging the Snarky Purple Fairy nailed you the way he/she so loves to nail people. I'm thinking you would have a tag that said "found you again, nanner nanner boo boo" or something.


Sorry, let me respond to your actual post...

I did the same thing!

The sad part of this is, this really, really doesn't surprise me. Honestly, NOTHING surprises me anymore with what the children are NOT allowed to do at school.

Basically it's going to boil down to them all sitting around twiddling their thumbs at recess (except they won't be able to twiddle their thumbs because it will offend someone), etc...

I've even read of schools that have no talking policies (even at LUNCH, etc...).

I'm REALLY surprised dodgeball is still alive & well here (frankly that was one game I really did hate as a kid) -- of course, we called it bombardment (sp?) but I know we have a dodgeball competition here as a fundraiser either through the park district or the school, I forget. It's mostly adults doing that one though.

I think Red Rover, Red Rover also got banned.

 

[Becky2005]

What I thought was off the wall... my daughter (4th grade) was telling me that there was a second grade teacher telling everyone that "NOBODY is allowed to play on the playground till after 4 p.m. on school days." At our school there are NO BUSES so many parents pick up their children and let them play at the playground for a bit now the teachers are saying NO to this... Holy Cow... the park belongs to the city, not the school, so I know it won't last long. And when we go up there to pick her up, you better know that we will play (she has been riding her bike so we haven't been up there yet)!!!!!

OK...this one I do understand at least at our school. It's so that all the kids can be accounted for. They don't want the kids to play on the playground until all the car riders & bus riders are gone because what has happened in the past is some of the kids who are *SUPPOSED* to be standing in the car line waiting to be picked up were over playing on the Kindergarten playground instead so of course, don't notice that their parent is there, the car line backs up and people have to radio into the office for pages to be done, etc...

You also have to be with a parent (at least right after school. You can come back later by yourself if you want but they don't need parents calling going "where is Suzy -- she never came home from school" because she decided to play on the playground instead of walking home like she was supposed to).

They have gotten really tough this year on that so far and with the chaos I've seen at dismissal time, I agree with it.

It only takes about 10-15 minutes to the car riders cleared out so it's not that long of a wait if you want to play on the playground rather than doing it right when you have kids still coming out of the school.

 

[Aidensmom]

Holy crap, I guess where we know where to find the kids that will have no coping skills. If my kid came home and said he didn't want to play tag, but people kept tagging him and saying he was it...yes, I would understand that he felt pressured to play something he didn't want to...but I WOULD NOT complain. Instead I'd explain to him the very basic concept of "so ignore them". Come on now, if the kid ignores them, and no one is tagging anyone, I think they will fast move on to making someone else "it".

 

[DonaldTDuck]

I did the same thing!

The sad part of this is, this really, really doesn't surprise me. Honestly, NOTHING surprises me anymore with what the children are NOT allowed to do at school.

Basically it's going to boil down to them all sitting around twiddling their thumbs at recess (except they won't be able to twiddle their thumbs because it will offend someone), etc...

I've even read of schools that have no talking policies (even at LUNCH, etc...).

I'm REALLY surprised dodgeball is still alive & well here (frankly that was one game I really did hate as a kid) -- of course, we called it bombardment (sp?) but I know we have a dodgeball competition here as a fundraiser either through the park district or the school, I forget. It's mostly adults doing that one though.

I think Red Rover, Red Rover also got banned.

I went to a terrific school till fifth grade, then we moved to the county where the SS was in charge of our Stalag. There was no talking ikn our cafeteria. We goosestepped down the hallway, 18 inches apart at the principle's(she was no pal) pace. My mother was escorted out of the school one day when she was there for lunch with your child, and she dared to talk and when told of the rules, said that was the most stupid thing she'd ever heard(good old Mom). This was in 1963.
Bombardment, I loved that game. Wasn't that goog at it, but loved it all the same. Red Rover always seemed lame. But frozen tag, that was a constant.

 

[Charade]

Oy...


I should have a talk with my neighbor. He's a (very recently retired) school superintendent to see what his take (and what our district's policies are (I have no idea)) is on this crap.

 

[DISUNC]

So sad that kids are being forbidden to play active, classic outdoor games by misguided school administrators too easily swayed by whining parents.

Todays Whining Parents, were the kids who NEVER got picked in other then DodgeBall years ago!

 

[Dr.Snark]

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/14005207/detail.html

Are they for real?

I wouldn't expect any different from the Springs.