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Attleboro elementary school bans tag
October 18, 2006
ATTLEBORO, Mass. --Tag, you're out!
Officials at the Willett Elementary School in Attleboro have banned
playground tag, touch football and any other unsupervised chasing
games over concerns about the risk of injury and liability for the
school.
"It's a time when accidents can happen," Principal Gaylene Heppe said.
Heppe included the new rule as part of a standardized set of playground rules.
While no district-wide policies banning contact sports at recess
appear to have been put in place locally, many principals are making
up new rules in an atmosphere reflecting society's increasingly
cautious and litigious nature.
A few years ago, school administrators in the Attleboro area about 40
miles south of Boston, as well as around the country, took aim at
dodgeball, saying it was an exclusionary and dangerous game. Modified
versions now include softer balls and ways for children to re-enter
the action.
Elementary schools in Cheyenne, Wyo., and Spokane, Wash., banned tag
at recess this year. A suburban Charleston, S.C., school outlawed all
unsupervised contact sports.
Parents' reaction was mixed to the new rule at Willett.
"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. "Playing tag is
just part of being a kid."
However, Celeste D'Elia, another Willett parent, said her son feels
safer because of the rule.
"I've witnessed enough near collisions" in the playground area, D'Elia
said. "I support anything that makes the playground safer and helps
teacher to keep track of them."
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Information from: The Sun Chronicle, http://www.thesunchronicle.com
(c) Copyright 2006 The New York Times Company
WTF! I used to play tag all the time and I turned out alright!
I mean we play all types of tag:
T.V. Tag
Freeze Tag
Team Tag
Prison Tag
Tag with Bases and w/o Bases
Boy that really grinds my gears! (Who knows the reference?)
10.24.2006
People... The World is ENDING....
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You have got to be freakin' kidding me!! It's exercise! It's fun! The whole purpose of a playground is to run around and have fun. What's next? No basketballs because you can jam your fingers or no jump rope because you can trip and fall on concrete? No jungle gym because even the new molded plastic and woodchip flooring is too dangerous?
Yea I know.
That's why I had to share it with the world.
I do think that most playgrounds don't have monkeybars now.
:( booooo
and since no on else mentioned it...the reference is peter griffin from family guy...i need to play me some pop culture trivial pursuit!
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