Posted on 10/18/2006 7:39:05 AM PDT by Redcitizen
ATTLEBORO, Mass. - Tag, you're out! 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.
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The sechool is obviously being ridiculous, but the real blame lies with the courts and our sue happy society. I can see why the school is afraid of getting sued.
"Burn the Flag"
"Dodgeresponsibility"
"Hide and shred"
"Go to the Head of the Madras"
"Pin the blame on the Bible-thumping Christian Right-wing Fundamentalist"
"Guess Pat's Gender"
"One-Circle" (Because four-square is dangerous and exclusionary and we want our children to be one in consciousness, Kum-bah-yah... except for Christians and Jews.")
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LOL! They were all good, but that one was particularly funny.
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