Colorado Springs School Bans Tag on Playground, Citing Conflicts

[RJF]

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Colorado Springs School Bans Tag on Playground, Citing Conflicts
Thursday , August 30, 2007

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. —

An elementary school has banned tag on its playground after some children complained they were harassed or chased against their will.

"It causes a lot of conflict on the playground," said Cindy Fesgen, assistant principal of the Discovery Canyon Campus school.

Running games are still allowed as long as students don't chase each other, she said.

Fesgen said two parents complained to her about the ban but most parents and children didn't object.

In 2005, two elementary schools in the nearby Falcon School District did away with tag and similar games in favor of alternatives with less physical contact. School officials said the move encouraged more students to play games and helped reduce playground squabbles.

[s13silvia03]

Wow...people bitch about the stupidest things...can't even play tag anymore.

[steve shadows]

yeah your supposed to just sit and consume , sit and consume, breed and consume, and die

thats all

no playing around, no blowing shit up in the desert, no racing (half the tracks are closing too) and defintily no pleasure outside of allowed transported phamecuticals or the pleasure derived from procreation.

save yourself some trouble and kill yourself.

[HalveBlue]

Yeah, give it 20-50 years and our society will mirror that of ants.

Don't ask questions, don't have fun. Just follow orders and work.

I swear, this country is sliding into the abyss.

[Vision Garage]

And we wonder how come our kids are obese compared to years ago.

"okay Kids go eat your lunch and after you are done sit down and do nothing"

[drifting_changed_mylife]

if my kid was getting "harassed" i would just teach him to fight and stop being such a bitch

[OptionZero]

it's a private school, so let's at least take solace in the fact this is relatively isolated

if you want a private entity to do something, you have to fuck it up financially
since the parents were too pussified to even complain about it, i say it's their fault

if it were a public school district...

[BustedS13]

i went to a private school. we had tag. it was cool.

[thatdrifterguy]

so i cant play grabas anymore??????????????????????????????????????????? ???????

[StaticX27]

Teachers can't even call the students stupid anymore without getting fired for emotionally damaging the kids. God forbid you tell a kid "no you can't go to the bathroom, we're in the middle of a test." Every children's right's activist would be up in arms ready to skin you alive.

[Farzam]

Tag ruined my life :(

[SiI40sx]

Haha tags dope I loved it. Especially when theyre almost about to tag you and you start arching your back like crazy. If ANYTHING maybe dodgeball should be banned..... but that shit was dope as hell too.

[Matej]

Dodgeball is banned in elementary and middle schools, I believe, at least in many places.

[LB.Motoring]

lol,

kids need that shit,

If not I wouldnt come out a badass like I am now.

[BustedS13]

this just in, childhood not the same as it was before. in other news, the sky is blue and 240's are fragile.

[illvialuver]

damn, those privey school kids are gangsta they cant even play tag.?!?!?

[slothonaleash]

yeah they banned dodgeball in our middle schools... it was because of a couple kids' actions though

but tag? i went to an elementary school with a playground called "castle park"...it was like 2 acres of solid wood structure raised 20 feet off the ground in some places... we'd play tag and go leaping off those peaks to run away from someone, which led to chunks of mulch being lodged into our palms and countless rolled ankles

[Unholy S14]

whats next !!!!!! Sex in school ???? geez give me a break.

[1Via!]

I can't think of anything more American than tag at recess. WTF are they doing to this country?!?

[OptionZero]

thought:
if a school can't manage kids playing tag, how are they gonna manage to teach kids...stuff?

[Gumballf355]

How else are all the fat girls going to get some excersize???

[Andrew Bohan]

if it wasn't for tag, i would have been a serial rape murderer

how's that?

[eastcoastS14]

jesus......whatever happened to building social skills, kids have always got harassed by other kids, its just part of being young....fuck I was always picked on when I was younger and its part of what made me who I am. Jesus if I ever complained about being chased (which I wouldnt) the teacher would tell the kids to stop and then tell me to go back and play. theyre trying to take the competition out of everything....SO EVERYONE IS A WINNER YAYYY!!!:bigok: and no ones feelings ever get hurt. truth is some kids just suck....I never played varsity basketball because I suck at basketball....I know I suck because I played against other kids.....our society is slowly turning kids into fat pussies with no social skills. And btw if I was one of the parents at that school Id be flipping out if they said they were getting rid of tag....god even the parents in this country are fucking soft now

[kyoru]

wow lame, to many rules now a days..

[fliprayzin240sx]

Yay, lets pussify and shelter kids more. So the first bump or social obstacle they hit in life, theyll just react negatively and shoot everybody in sight, lets all turn them into another columbine and VT.

Christ, I swear, another reason to move to Australia...

[thejapino]

LOL, I SWEAR TO GOD!!! I thought they were talking about 'tag'
http://www.thisnext.com/media/230x230/Tag-Body-Spray-For-Men_A01F5CB9.jpg
I was imagining a bunch of 2nd grade girls running after a boy like in the commercials!!!!!! WOW

[SexPanda]

Shit i remember playing dodgeball with medicine balls and basketballs. My old PE teacher was the shit. All this shit kinda makes you think of "The Wall"... If you've seen it, you'll know which scene Im talking about. If not, then go rent it, you sad, sad souls.