They're banning the game Tag at schools!
Remember when our parents told us that they had fairly dangerous toys and games when they were young? I guess its OUR time for our generation's fun to be 'not safe' to the new generation of humans. These youngins will lose a part of what being a kid is about.
You aren't giving children enough credit. They're smarter than you think.
Adult thought: I'm banning tag and other chasing games because it lowers my liability insurance. That'll show those dumb pesky children!
Child thought: We'll come up with something else that's equally fun to play.
In my (limited) experience, children can generally tell when they're being condescended to.
What Pundit said. Kids will always win, because teachers are dumb. Except Kat, she has EYES in the back of her HEAD. >>
~Rico
Yeah, I heard this on the Political Grapevine on Special Report on Fox; it's pretty stupid and according to the Grapevine most of the schools in that town also banned dodge ball awhile back. Yep, humanity at its stupidest, that it is!
...well crap.
I know that kids will find another way to play, but still...are we trying to remove all forms of competitive play amongst the younger people?
Life without Run-Outs is not worth living...
BUT British Bulldog is not a chase game, so kids are free to tackle eachother to the concrete.
I want to teach my kids to play British Bulldog, even if they're raised in America. Then they'll know the dangers of kids hurting themselves at school 
At least they can still play of Tug of War...no, I'm sorry, they'll have to play Tug of Peace instead.
Maybe kids should just stop moving, period. They could get hurt. And why are so many of them fat? Makes no sense.
Craig, what's British Bulldog? It sounds fascinating 
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Craig, what's British Bulldog? It sounds fascinating
Yeah, I wanna know more about this. Is it like some sort of child version of Rugby or something? That said, them poor kids, a word without tag. Yeah, they can play and make up other games what with their imagination, but no tag? Oh, come on...
Generally, in British bulldog, there are two sides. A group of kids start off on one side of the 'arena', and must run to the other side.
Stopping them and in the way is a person located in the center. To start off the game, this person picks one of the kids on the side of the 'arena', to which they are given a set of choices.
The chosen kid can say:
"Bulldog"-where the whole group are allowed to run at the same time.
"Banana Split"-where the kid picks three people of the group to run to the other side, whilst the rest must remain until at least one of the chosen 3 reaches the other side and shouts "Bulldog".
"Doubles"-same as banana split, but only with two people running.
and "Singles", which is the same as banana split and doubles but just with one person.
The aim of the game is for the kids on one side of the arena to run to the other without being caught. The person in the middle must tackle the kids as they run from one to the other by either:
Normally grabbing them and holding them for a length of time, usually 3 seconds, without letting go. This has to be done on the concrete. If you use the other version, then... oww...
Or, if you're on a field, pulling the kid down to the ground and pinning them for 3 seconds on their back without letting them go.
If successful, the caught person joins the person in the middle's team, and the game continues until one person remains who has managed to dodge all the others from side to side of the arena. They are declared the winner and can choose who starts in the middle on the next game.
This game is absolutely awesome but got banned in my primary school for being vicious, but we played it anyway.
Then, on the odd occasion we played it in secondary school with like 50 people. Cue lots of shirt ripping and the occasional concussion.
No Tag? WHAT'S WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE?!?!?!?
Pach sorta has the rules there, but the proper tackling is supposed to be done on concrete. Grazed knees are the sign of victory!
I played that game, or a variant of, when I was in grade school, I believe. We didn't call it Bulldog, but our name escapes me.
But yeah, on topic, Americans are stupid, paranoid, sissies, all that. If we don't let kids get knocked around to bounce back, they're going to shatter like glass when something serious actually does happen to them. It's called sheltering, and in most cases it does so much more harm than good - speaking from experience.
What type of babys are these? I go to an all girl and we have a basketball team, a bowling team AND soccer team and not one person have been hurt.
And you Adults used to say 'OH WELL GOING OUT SIDE AND PLAYING IS VERY GOOD AND HEALTY.'
Now:'NO JHONNY!DON'T GO OUTSIDE! YOU CAN GET HURT! OR GET BURNED BY GOLBAL WARMING OR SCRAP YOUR KNEE PLAYING TAG! SEE MOMMY MADE SOME COOKIES!
WILL YOU STUPID ADULTS MAKE UP YOUR MIND FOR GOD SAKE!? 
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I love the episode of Jimmy Neutron when Jimmy's mom goes on vacation and Jimmy makes a robot to replace her. The berserk Maternal robot tries to stop Jimmy from going outside.
"No! It's too dangerous. Outside is where the Civil War happened!"
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If we don't let kids get knocked around to bounce back, they're going to shatter like glass when something serious actually does happen to them. It's called sheltering, and in most cases it does so much more harm than good - speaking from experience.
Seconded.
I agree that this is stupid, with the exception of Red Rover. Red Rover is an evil game, which almost broke my wrist.
Oh sure, it's all fun and games when you're running around, but when you got the biggest kid in the fifth grade barrelling down on your wrist....not so much fun anymore.
Oh, Red rover... I was just about the smallest kid in school, but I'd charge the line so fast I was virtually NEVER stopped. ANd when I was on the line, I LITERALLY never lost my grip. Good times, goood times...
We can't even play dodge ball with foam balls anymore. 
THE HORROR!
I loved Red Rover. When I was in kindergarten and elementary school, my class would play it all the time at recess and in PE. Rainbow Tag was also another favorite. And Dodgeball and Wall Ball were and are still popular with the youth at my church.
It's sad that children are losing more and more of their childhood as time goes on. When I was growing up, parents actually let us have fun. Now it seems the only thing children have to entertain themselves is the TV and video games. And I'd be willing to bet that stuff like this will only cause the problem of obesity to skyrocket.
It's a sad, sad world.
This just plain STINKS!!!!!!!
(shakes his head sadly)
bulldog tag was banned at my primary school as well, mostly because our playground was tiny, but also because we had a tendancy to trample the younger kids while playing it.
ladders and leapfrog were also banned, apparently as we could hurt our legs.
kiss chase was outlawed as well. (anyone remember that?)
marbles, skipping ropes and etc were all fine, however.
so my freind invented a game called 'zombie'. you'd go up to a kid with your arms outstreached, and cry 'i am the great lord zombie, you are now a zombie! follow me!' and we'd end up with a line of kids stomping along and chanting 'zombie! zombie!'
goodness knows what the techers thought of this. >>;;;
Just wait, soon enough the TV and video games we have will be deemed "dangerous"!
"No! Don't play that game! YOU'LL GET RSI!"
In all seriousness though, what the hell are they thinking? Tag is not a dangerous game, unless the kids playing it decide to make it so. And in most cases all they're looking to do is have fun.
Still, this is the USA where it's happened, land of the mortally afraid of being sued. We shouldn't be surprised.
With that said though, I don't doubt for a minute that the kids will find some other way of having fun. They're kids. If one fun thing is outlawed, guaranteed they'll come up with another in no time.
~SilverShadow.
I'm suprised that this hasn't been repealed yet on account of the game being a decent form of EXERCIZE, which kids are seriously lacking.
Paranoia of Being sued > Paranoia of Obesity...
That'd be the reason why.
Why don't we just solve the problem at it's core and kill fat lawyers.
With that said though, I don't doubt for a minute that the kids will find some other way of having fun. They're kids. If one fun thing is outlawed, guaranteed they'll come up with another in no time.
Well, they may well see the outlawed thing as even more fun, and so attempt to continue doing it, or slightly altering the game so they canin essence keep playing it.
Personally, I reckon asking kids to come up with their own idea of what to do for fun is far more dangerous than letting them keep playing tag under minimal supervision. Rich imagination combined with little forethought for consequences is a very dangerous thing...
