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Colorado School Bans Game of Tag on Playground
The Colorado Gazetter ^ | BRIAN NEWSOME

Posted on 08/31/2007 3:51:34 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache

Springs elementary gives tag a timeout By BRIAN NEWSOME THE GAZETTE

On the playground of a northern Colorado Springs elementary school, tag is not “it.”

The touch-and-run game and any other form of chasing was banned this year at Discovery Canyon Campus’ elementary school by administrators who say it fuels schoolyard disputes.

“It causes a lot of conflict on the playground,” said Assistant Principal Cindy Fesgen. In the first days of school, before tag was banned, she said students would complain to her about being chased or harassed.

Fesgen said she would hear: “Well, I don’t want to be chased, but he won’t stop chasing me, or she won’t stop chasing me.”

Fesgen said two parents complained to her about the demise of tag, but she said that generally, parents and children didn’t fuss about the new rules. Running games are still OK, she said, as long as students don’t run after one another.

The Academy School District 20 elementary school isn’t the first in the Pikes Peak region to take issue with traditional recess games.

In 2005, two elementaries in Falcon School District 49 adopted a structured recess program, Trouble-Free Playground, that did away with games like tag in favor of alternative activities that cut down on physical contact. Evans and Meridian Ranch elementaries said the program encouraged more students to play games and helped reduce playground squabbles.

Nationally, several schools have done away with tag and other games because of the accidents and arguments they can lead to. It’s a trend that has rankled some parents and childhood experts who say games such as tag contribute to children’s social and physical development.

Fesgen, who has supervised playgrounds for more than 20 years, said this is not the first school where she’s restricted chase games. She still believes in free play. Students can run races and run around with friends, she said.

“There is plenty for them to do,” she said.

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In 2005, two elementaries in Falcon School District 49 adopted a structured recess program, Trouble-Free Playground, that did away with chasing games in favor of other activities that cut down on physical contact. Evans and Meridian Ranch elementaries said the program helped reduce playground squabbles.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: childhood; playground; tag; zerotolerance
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To: My Favorite Headache

When I went to school, we had Hygiene class, 15 minute recess both morning and afternoon, gym class, shop and home economics. Those were the days, my friends. Those were the days!


21 posted on 08/31/2007 4:36:16 PM PDT by Paperdoll ( Vote for Duncan Hunter in the Primaries for America's sake!)
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To: My Favorite Headache

What has happened Colorado (and District 20 in conservative Colorado Springs)? We used to chase each other every recess for months. If you didn’t want a guy chasing you, you decked him (horrors).

Californians, your work is almost done here. It’s time to move on to another beautiful spot and start ruining it, since wherever you move you make it unbearable to live in. Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming?? Anyone willing to sacrifice for a neighbor???


22 posted on 08/31/2007 4:37:58 PM PDT by keepitreal
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To: Shots

The fat fem-hags of the NEA don’t want any girls to be chased by boys, nor to grow up skinny and physically fit.


23 posted on 08/31/2007 4:39:33 PM PDT by ccmay (Too much Law; not enough Order.)
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To: My Favorite Headache

Jaw-dropping idiocy.


24 posted on 08/31/2007 4:50:33 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: My Favorite Headache

why don’t we ban testosterone while we’re at it?


25 posted on 08/31/2007 4:50:35 PM PDT by VoiceOfBruck (for a good time, call vobns.blogspot.com)
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To: My Favorite Headache
They banned tag long ago here in the People's Democratic Republic of Montgomery County, Maryland. The took out a lot of the pleasant playground equipment in the local grammar school, even though it was all harmless and the playground surface was some sort of soft, springy material like a mattress, so falls wouldn't result in scraped knees.

At the local middle school, the new rule is no touching of any kind. You can't pat a buddy on the back for a job well done, hold a girl's hand, hug someone, shake hands, take someone's arm to help him, examine someone's new ring by taking her hand, nothing, nada. Do, and you get detention; do it twice, and you're suspended. For touching.

Thank God there are no real problems in our school system--no gangs, drugs, or performance deficits--so school administrators have time to worry about such things. < /s>

26 posted on 08/31/2007 5:09:20 PM PDT by Fairview ( Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.)
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To: My Favorite Headache
Image hosted by Photobucket.com i guess that would make Kill the guy with the ball! and Smear the Queer right out then tooo...
27 posted on 08/31/2007 5:58:52 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist)
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To: My Favorite Headache; 2ndDivisionVet; A knight without armor; Alexander Rubin; AmericaUnite; ...

Read the story. Freep the poll! (at the bottom of the home page. http://www.gazette.com )
the comments on the article are pretty funny, too!
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28 posted on 08/31/2007 6:18:48 PM PDT by dynachrome (Henry Bowman is right.)
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To: My Favorite Headache
generally, parents and children didn’t fuss about the new rules

This why freedom is so rare in the history of the world and why it never lasts: people don't want to be free, they want to be taken care of.

29 posted on 08/31/2007 6:52:36 PM PDT by live+let_live
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To: VoiceOfBruck
why don’t we ban testosterone while we’re at it?

I understand your point but what I remember about grade school was the girls chasing the boys.

It took a few more years for the boys to become aware girls even existed.

30 posted on 08/31/2007 6:55:50 PM PDT by live+let_live
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To: VoiceOfBruck

“Why don’t we ban testosterone while we’re at it”?


Hell, if they could find an excuse for actual castration they would write it into law, right next to abortion.
We are faced with genocide, and we are the target.
BUAIDH NO BAS!


31 posted on 08/31/2007 7:12:20 PM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (THE SECOND AMENDMENT, A MATTER OF FACT, NOT A MATTER OF OPINION)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Tag can KILL!!!!


32 posted on 08/31/2007 8:07:01 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker ( Hunter/Thompson/Thompson/Hunter in 08! "Read my lips....No new RINO's" !!)
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To: My Favorite Headache

Why do all these crazy things seem to happen in Colorado? It seems second only to California in terms of sheer PC lunancy


33 posted on 08/31/2007 8:58:51 PM PDT by oakcon
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To: My Favorite Headache

My only surprise was that they still were allowed to play tag. Thought it was already banned.


34 posted on 08/31/2007 9:00:37 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man
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To: Secret Agent Man

“My only surprise was that they still were allowed to play tag. Thought it was already banned”
lol!!

Patrick McGoohan Bump!


35 posted on 08/31/2007 9:18:53 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker ( Hunter/Thompson/Thompson/Hunter in 08! "Read my lips....No new RINO's" !!)
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To: My Favorite Headache

Is hide and go seek, still legal?


36 posted on 08/31/2007 9:46:20 PM PDT by razorback-bert (Posted by Time's Man of the Year)
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To: dynachrome

92% no :)


37 posted on 08/31/2007 11:41:00 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (ETERNAL SHAME on the Treasonous and Immoral Democrats!)
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To: Paperdoll

Sounds like you went to school in the forties and fifties. Those WERE the days.


38 posted on 09/01/2007 12:00:44 AM PDT by Marysecretary (GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL.)
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To: Paperdoll

Sounds like you went to school in the forties and fifties. Those WERE the days.


39 posted on 09/01/2007 12:01:54 AM PDT by Marysecretary (GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL.)
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To: My Favorite Headache

Unbelievable nonsense. I have so had my fill of the p.c. liberal wacko crowd.


40 posted on 09/01/2007 7:33:23 AM PDT by steelyourfaith
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