Comments on: Tag, you’re a politically correct idiot

By: Ugly

Ugly — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 00:08:47 +0000

Lawyers are KILLING this country. Sure there are a few responsible lawyers, but they are few and far between. Fear of lawsuits is really the issue here.

/sigh

By: seejanemom

seejanemom — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 23:59:59 +0000

Tag may be out for Precious, but tag is fine for Nannies. It doesn't take a Village, it only takes an idiot.

By: Chaos_Spawnn

Chaos_Spawnn — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 18:06:33 +0000

Not that it will do any good but I decided to send the school an email. If anyone else would like to you can use the following email that is available from the school districts site (wouldn’t want to be charged with posting “private information”).

willettschool@attleboroschools.com

By: Fargus

Fargus — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 17:45:53 +0000

Recess Rules:
1. No running
2. No talking, laughing, crying, or other audible noises
3. No walking on the grass
4. Girls WILL NOT chase the boys
5. Boys WILL NOT chase the girls
6. No sports based on the school’s concerns over a) low self esteem for those students picked last or not picked at all, and b) the negative effect aggressive sports (i.e. tee ball) have on normal psychological development.
7. No “Red Rover, Red Rover” due to self esteem issues with those students unable to break through the arms of their fellow students.
8. No use of swings over the school’s concern for those students, a) who are afraid of heights, or b) unable to kick their legs to gain any measurement of altitude, which has been shown to have a negative effect on self esteem.
9. No hopscotch or jump rope due to the school’s concerns for those students who, a) may lack the physical capacity to “hopscotch” or jump rope, and b)lack the multitasking abilities to count and “jump” or pick up objects at the same time.
10. At no time will any “war games” be played especially those involving the use of students pointing their fingers as [deadly] weapons.
11. No patriotic themes such as pretend parades or religious themes involving Christian-like principles (the embracing of other cultures/religious ideals may be approved with a prior commitment from the school board and/or principal).
12. No themes or usage of the word “Christmas”.

By: KineticJustice

KineticJustice — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 17:25:15 +0000

What’s next an Army with shooting puff balls? No wonder kids today have to go on drugs, they have no way to run off that extra energy they have and then channel it into other wonderful things like bring your gun to school day.

By: fredaa

fredaa — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 17:17:38 +0000

My wife looked at that and instantly said that it makes sense because what happens if a Hispanic or Black child is tagged and goes home and complains. This incident can then jump from a kids game to a real problem for the school of claims of, either real or perceived, racial prejudice.

The legal concern isn’t from a suit over a scrapped knee or elbow but a suit or just a public claim of school prejudice. A claim like this propegated by an over-eager media can devastate the school or an entire community.

I have seen, even on the most conservative sites, a call for additional legislation to solve an incident of personal disagreement. Bigger government or restraints on the media will never be the correct answer. The only one I can come up with is the same one I am complaining about, additional legislation requiring judicial common sense. Can common sense be mandated to a judiciary that honors creative application of the law.

By: i_will_not_surrender

i_will_not_surrender — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 16:28:28 +0000

Learned Helplessness – That’s all that public schools are about. The Teachers Unions in concert with the educational bureaucrats have the ultimate long-term goal of churning out the dumbest, weakest and most helpless children on the planet. These children will then come to rely on the federal government to protect and provide for them, as they have been taught. And as such, they will have no choice but to vote for the communist Democratic party so that they will always have a meal ticket. The disgusting state of our public school system is leading the future of our country down a dark, dark hole. My kids will never, EVER, be subject to the government sponsored “educational” gulags. As the bumper sticker says, “My dog is smarter than your ‘Honor Roll’ kid.”

By: wxgesr

wxgesr — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 16:22:33 +0000

Playing “tag” is a good way to learn about avoiding predators. A lot of the games we played as kids made us better urban gorillas. CAR, CAR, C A R was a hide and seek from headlights, throwing rocks at police cars, ringing doorbells and running, tackle football in hte street, (not my idea), dodgeball, heads-up ball (sit under a tree and have someone hrow a baseball in he tree and listen to it bounce off the limbs like a pinball until it hit someone), etc. Too bad todays kids are growing up to be pu$$ies.

By: looking4statesmen

looking4statesmen — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 16:13:47 +0000

I am reminded of a Bill Cosby story about his playground days...

By: honora

honora — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 15:48:12 +0000

I thought we were concerned about childhood obesity???

By: Viper1

Viper1 — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 15:36:21 +0000

As a resident(read hostage) of the peoples republic I do not find this as surprising as many here do, well some do some dont, but could the progression to this not have been seen as clearly as the handwriting on the big dig tunnel walls? this state has been in the hands of the politically correct and secular progressive crowd for decades, the worst possible scenario would be ending up with “free em all” Duval as govenor!! Jeeshh! we are screwed.. :(

By: Priest

Priest — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 14:41:23 +0000

Awe heck I really need auto spell check with my fidgety fingers.

By: Priest

Priest — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 14:39:48 +0000

I am up here in the eople’s Republic and so I heard this on the news while getting rezady for work yesterday. I have Michael Graham on the Radio to help me through the horror of this state. So I sent him the following email regarding the topic.

Michael,

My vote is for “Pussy Nation”

This morning channel 5 had a story on an Attleboro School banning “Tag” and other games. I was getting ready for work so I only half listened while brushing teeth etc. My daughters got to listen to me spewing “Pussy Nation yea that’s it” toothpaste with the full toothpaste effect all over the mirror. Damn which I have to clean off before “My” “Warden” returns home from a business trip.

Anyway the games like tag, dodge ball, and the like were to be banned because they posed too much physical and emotional risk on the playground. Additionally they were to great a liability with regards to children touching each other. WHAT! That is right touching one another. Michael as much as I hate to say it next time let that poor boys trousers fall down around his ankles when he trips his parents will notice and fix it.

My solution is I will be starting my own company. Bubble wrap condoms that I will be selling at the schools for the children. I figure the schools will leap to market it for me what with the word condom in the product title and all. This product will not only protect them from any unwanted contact but also any bumps or bruises they might obtain while not in our care.

Then I am petitioning for legislation that states one parent MUST accompany a child EVERYWHERE if this does not happen the parent will be jailed indefinitely!!! Yea do the math on that one in a 3-child household. You thought pre-birth abortion was bad well I am also getting together legislation on post birth abortion. So that there can be no more than 2 children in a home and each parent can stay with a child!!

K I am done. Vote Duval for sanity sake! OK so I lied I wasn’t done. Sue me already!

All Hail POOP

Yea I was frothing at the mouth and a little sarcastic but you get the drift.

By: CrazyFool

CrazyFool — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 14:38:08 +0000

Me and my 5 brothers used to play ‘Guns’. Where we would run around (outside) the house with stick ‘guns’ and shoot each other. BANG! BANG! YOUR DEAD!

And then it would all end up as a halarious pig-pile on someone.

I must be so demented!

(Actually that might explain a lot….)

By: Wolfman

Wolfman — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 09:03:32 +0000

This reminds me of when I was in first grade. In P.E. we would sometimes play a variation of dodgeball called Doctor Dodgeball (clever, I know). In it, each team had two people that were designated doctors, If you got hit by a ball, you would lay down until one of the doctors came and got you and took you out of bounds. After that, you could come back into the game. If I remember right, the doctors even had a sled that you would get on and they would drag you. Obviously, the idea was that you take out the doctors first, but I guess that would probably be exclusionary. . .

Anyway, what exactly are the kids allowed to play at the Peoples’ Elementary School?

By: theholyhermit

theholyhermit — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 07:43:16 +0000

Crap, EFG, you beat me to it.

So, I will repeat the less cool version:

“If you can dodge traffic, you can dodge a ball.”

By: georgej

georgej — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 06:20:09 +0000

I’m waiting for Honora and GregH to defend the principal’s actions.

By: HerrMorgenholz

HerrMorgenholz — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 02:14:52 +0000

Go to Walmarts and look at the recall bulletin board. It never ends. Each recall represents a lawsuit somewhere.

We have a stroller that says “Remove Infant Before Folding”. A thing of beauty….

By: entagor

entagor — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 01:50:05 +0000

Homeschooling is great. It may be the only way left to preserve the culture. Any culture.

Tort reform is needed but the lawyers wouldn’t be there unless there were paying customers. The love of money is the root of all evil. We just pretend it isn’t the money. We don’t have tort reform because that is like eliminating the lottery.

Go to Walmarts and look at the recall bulletin board. It never ends. Each recall represents a lawsuit somewhere.

We should put each person in a cage with no belt or necktie and feed them through a tube. Bandage their hands so they don’t hurt themselves. Livestock. That is what we are creating.

The homeschoolers will rule the world if they aren’t executed first.

By: Freelancer

Freelancer — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 00:21:24 +0000

NTWR,

Your husband is right, my homeschooled children are weird. They listen to adults, they obey their parents (mostly), they take responsibility for their actions, and they TRY THEIR BEST at everything they do. They know how to make a logical argument for what they want or believe, as well as how to tear down an illogical one.

My daughter is a freshman this year at the university she determined she would go to back when she was 9, a school on the opposite side of the country from home.

Many people told her she would have a hard time there coming from a homeschooled environment; that she wouldn’t be prepared for the workload or the discipline; that she wouldn’t be able to handle being away from family after being homeschooled. Every Sunday night we talk for about half an hour and her favorite comments are about how much less real work is required than she is used to, and about how whiney many of the “preppy” kids are over the littlest things. So far she hasn’t complained of being homesick, but she’s human so I’m sure that will kick in just after midterms.

Don’t let the fear-mongers scare you off of homeschooling. One piece of advice, if you consider it, is contact the Home School Legal Defense Association. On a subscription basis, they provide the legal documentation required of homeschoolers in every state in the country, and represent any subscriber who is legally challenged regarding any aspect of homeschooling.

By: Iowa Voice

Iowa Voice — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 23:43:01 +0000

School Bans Games Of Tag…

You know, I can see the day coming when we’re just going to wrap our kids in bubble wrap and send them off to school:

Tag is now out during recess at Willett Elementary School in Attleboro.

So is touch football and any other unsupervised “chasi…

By: moflicky

moflicky — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 23:28:59 +0000

Shakespear (or don henley, I sometimes can’t keep them strait) was right.

By: Freelancer

Freelancer — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 23:14:53 +0000

Is there a place left in this society for government-controlled schools?

Let a private school attempt to make such a decision, and see how quickly their salaries walk out the door and down the street to a school with some sense.

Let’s hear from the “party for choice” on this issue. Oh, right, there’s only one choice that they really want private citizens to make; to kill their babies.

By: Defector01

Defector01 — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 22:58:00 +0000

The more I read this the more I’m going to wait til I’m like 30+ (I’m 23 now) to have kids with my wife for the SOLE reason that I can put ALL their butts through private school. I don’t know if I want my kids taught to be utter wimps like this.

Btw I’ll take a quote from Dennis Miller; tag is now to be offered as an elective for anyone interested in law, business, medicine, politics, investment and just about every other fracking career on the planet earth

By: NTWR

NTWR — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 22:26:25 +0000

Oh my, by the time my kids are in school they’ll be given Ritalin, Xanax, and Prozac laced KoolAid and then a People’s Cube to work on for mental and physical stimulation.

Luckily I had a chance to get slammed with quite a few dodgeballs, run til I almost barfed during tag, and see my best friend break her arm on the swingset before the re-education camps were fully underway.

My husband thinks homeschooled kids will be “weird” but after reading story after story like this, my kids will have 2 options, homeschool or private school. The private highschool I went to made parents sign a release form so they could actually teach. It worked well.