it don't matter, we're tooo fat to run anyway... you gonna eat that??? 
Posted on 08/29/2007 5:11:41 PM PDT by MotleyGirl70
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- A Colorado Springs elementary school is banning the game of tag on its playground -- after some children complained that they'd been chased or harassed against their will.
Assistant Principal Cindy Fesgen of the Discovery Canyon Campus school said running games will be allowed, as long as students don't chase each other.
Fesgen said two parents complained to her about the ban, but most parents and children didn't object.
Two elementary schools in the nearby Falcon School District did away with tag and similar games in 2005 in favor of alternatives with less physical contact. Officials at Evans and Meridian Ranch elementaries say that encouraged more students to play games, and helped reduce playground squabbles.
Colorado Springs schools are not alone. Schools in Cheyenne, Wyo., Spokane, Wash., and Attleboro, Mass., have banned tag at recess. A suburban Charleston, S.C., school not only banned tagged, but outlawed all unsupervised contact sports.
My children are over here making comments, “School bans school work, because children complain that it’s too hard.”
Okay, how many here will admit to having played an informal game of Dodge Rock way back when?
Mumbley peg has been banned for years
Unnngh
no comment
it don't matter, we're tooo fat to run anyway... you gonna eat that???
They all need a good old fashion ass wiping.
BigMack
Do you know what splits mean?
But then what if they have to go to the bathroom?
I guess not.
Yes. At least the pusillanimous pu$$ies of blue America are. Those of us who remember what it means to be Americans need to hold out and pray for rain.
Is either “keep away” or “smear the queer” still played these days?
In Junior High, we played “Eleven Booty”, a particularly painful form of all-against-all basketball. If you scored 11 points, you were out. Last one out had to hug the basketball pole while the winners took turns launching the basketball (at high speed) at his posterior (hence the name). The number of “lashes” depended on the number of players: e.g. five players, the first player out got five shots, the second four, etc.
You did NOT want to be the last player out in 11 Booty when they were 10 players. You’d have trouble sitting for all your afternoon classes.
How about an “action” playground and a “wuss” playground? Probably illegal.
Your’e a very observant man
Sounds like a good rite of passage game to me L0L
Hey MotleyGirl70, tag you’re “it.”
This pisses me off, WTF is wrong with us? Why are more parents not standing up against this madness? Many other countries teach there kids to KILL the infedel but we teach our kids to understand and accept.... we are doomed....
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