Posted on 10/18/2006 8:27:28 AM PDT by Clint N. Suhks
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.
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, Wyo., and Spokane, Wash., also recently banned tag during recess. A suburban Charleston, S.C., school outlawed all unsupervised contact sports.
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I recall hearing of another school's ban on tag because it violated the school's 'no touching' policy.
And in my opinion, that is one of the reasons that teen suicide rates are so high. These kids are so coddled and protected by Mommy & Daddy from every single negative, when the day finally arrives when Mommy & Daddy CAN'T take care of it (which is certain to happen sooner or later) the kid has absolutely no coping skills so they blow their brains out because they don't know what else to do.
Dealing with negatives has to be learned and the only way to learn it is by experience - starting with little disappointments and little frustrations. If a child is not "inoculated" with these coping skills gradually and are instead insulated against them until it is too late - then the young adult is left with no idea how to handle major disappoinments or frustrations.
Parent's who think they are doing their kids a favor by constantly running interference for them have no idea how they are handicapping their children - sometimes with fatal results.
{/soapbox off}
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