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VIDEO: Japanese TV Amazed At Children's Game "Tag" Suspended (Massachusetts) [Streaming Clip]
JNN News Tokyo (in Japanese) short video clip 300k ^ | 20 October 2006 | JNN News Tokyo (Video Clip)

Posted on 10/20/2006 9:36:21 AM PDT by AmericanInTokyo

The stupidity of the Massachusetts school decision to 'outlaw' such children's games as "tag" at school has hit the news in Japan.

(VIDEO REPORT ON TONIGHT'S NEWS IN JAPAN)

There is a slight tone of incredulousness.

Clip at above URL link and here:

http://meta.cdn.yahoo-streaming.jp/cgi-bin/yahoo/news.asx?cid=20061020-00000066-jnn-int-movie-001&media=wm300k

Puzzled parents interviewed, too. The clip will be up for a few more hours...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: dodgeball; kids; massachusetts; pc; tag; willett
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To: dfwgator
Should I even bother to ask if they allow kids to play "Smear the Queer" in Massachusetts?

Just call it "Catch the capitalist pig who has stolen the means of production" and it will be the state sport.

61 posted on 10/20/2006 11:18:50 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (I fear that we are the RINOs. The real Republican party is the big government Dem-lite party.)
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To: VeniVidiVici

i don't know, blessfully-luckily I do not live there, and have only been through the state..


62 posted on 10/20/2006 11:20:05 AM PDT by JSDude1 (www.pence08.com)
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To: LexBaird

Robot means "worker

Well, then I used the wrong word, because the last thing on earth the Government Indoctrination System wishes to produce is 'workers'! How about 'contemplators'.


63 posted on 10/20/2006 11:51:19 AM PDT by hardworking (Just once, I'd like to vote for a candidate who's actually had to meet a payroll.)
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To: dpa5923

"Source? Are is this your opinion on why the game tag was banned on school grounds?"

Go see for yourself:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=Why+are+competitive+games+banned+at+elementary+schools%3F&btnG=Search


64 posted on 10/20/2006 12:22:27 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: TeenagedConservative
"I guess one doesn't need cheap immigrant labor "

Japan has cheap immigrant labor. Their are millions of Filipinos and others in Japan but the Japanese don't let them become citizens.
65 posted on 10/20/2006 12:45:22 PM PDT by monday
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To: silentknight
"So umm why did the stop kids from playing tag???"

Because liberal teachers have terminal STUPID disease. It will be nice when they have all died from wandering out into traffic and other accidents that the terminally STUPID succumb to.
66 posted on 10/20/2006 12:48:48 PM PDT by monday
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To: AmericanInTokyo

Unlike us, they still believe in compitition....the fact that in games, as in life, there are winners and losers.


67 posted on 10/20/2006 1:23:35 PM PDT by Bogtrotter52 (Reading DU daily so you won't hafta)
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To: RegulatorCountry

Since you used google instead of providing a source, it is safe to assume you have no source for your statement. Banning tag is idiotic, but the stated reason behind the ban is "safety" not because "Competitve games are viewed as 'bad'".


68 posted on 10/20/2006 3:39:59 PM PDT by dpa5923 (Small minds talk about people, normal minds talk about events, great minds talk about ideas.)
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To: dpa5923
Well, sorry that ten pages of Google hits, as opposed to one link, is unsatisfactory to you. Competition has been viewed as "bad" by the leftist educational establishment for going on three decades now, but you are certainly free to believe whatever you like, as far as the primary causative factor in the banning of "tag" by this school in Massachusetts.
69 posted on 10/20/2006 3:53:26 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: RegulatorCountry

You asserted that tag was banned at this school because "competative games were bad" in responce to a posters honest inquiry. According to the school it was banned because of the fear of injuries and potential lawsuits. Your response was just dishonest. Banning tag is idiotic, but how can we have an intellegent discussion on the merits of the case when we cann't even present the facts accurately or honestly?


70 posted on 10/20/2006 6:40:55 PM PDT by dpa5923 (Small minds talk about people, normal minds talk about events, great minds talk about ideas.)
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To: dpa5923

"Your response was just dishonest."

My reply was an honest assessment. To the excessively literal, who take representatives of the educational establishment at their word, without question, perhaps this is offensive somehow. However, there is a track record going on thirty years of viewing competition as "bad," so this is at the root of the issue, all deflection aside.


71 posted on 10/20/2006 7:45:46 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: AmericanInTokyo
They must think we are nuts.

Yeah?

72 posted on 11/07/2006 7:14:22 PM PST by A. Pole (Milosevic: "And when they behead your own people [...] then you will know what this was all about.")
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