… as long as students don’t chase each other.
Back in my day we chased each other and we yelled “BANG!”.
Sometimes we even carried scissors.
… as long as students don’t chase each other.
Back in my day we chased each other and we yelled “BANG!”.
Sometimes we even carried scissors.
Some cannot resist the urge to have power over other people’s lives.
Ft. Collins… not unexpected to see such idiocy originating there. That place turned into a liberal, PC enclaves years ago. The older citizens of the area sat there and watched it happen so I have no sympathy for them. The only thing I ever lost in Colorado was a lot of fuel driving away from that useless state (ps and the fishing sucks also 🙂
Coming soon to a city near you.
What’s up next,maybe ban playing” hide and seek” because minority children are at a disadvantage,esp.during the wihter months.
I hope when you chased each other and yelled, “bang”, that was NOT an imitation of the sound of a firearm! Bang, pow, ka-bang, and any other sound that could be construed, by sensitive people, as gun fire sounds, should also be banned in school. Today, pretend guns, tomorrow, the real thing!
Once, when I was in first grade, I saw a girl fall while playing “tag”, and scrape her knee! Been traumatized ever since.
For ****’s sake, will people stop trying to make a perfect world.
“It causes a lot of conflict on the playground,” said Cindy Fesgen, assistant principal of the Discovery Canyon Campus school.
Huge understatement.
Precious few kids today can handle the kind of games we did back then. They have no internal governor or gauge to know how far is too far and invariably they end up crying or fighting. Every single time. Including teenagers…crying & angry. And, if they haven’t finished the game angry or crying because they’re wounded, it’s a safe bet the losers will be crying because there are precious few kids today who know how to handle feelings of disappointment. Far too many get what they want every single time they ask.
The bans are arising out of sheer necessity. The real issue is what got us to the bans in the first place.
Life never really says YOUR IT so why should children have to experience such trivial things?
I love this new Kool-Aid…….
I’ll be very interested in about 4 years when my now 10-month old starts school. If they continue to ban games such as Tag because little miss (or mister as the case may be) prissy sissy pussy can’t handle being “chased”, I’ll be having a little chat about it with the administrators. I mean, for crying out loud, what are we *really* teaching our kids when they can’t go out and have some innocent childhood fun!
Pretty soon we’ll be banning them from using separate bathrooms because it doesn’t conform to equal access rules for both sexes. That, or our kids will be made to attend sensitivity training before being accepted into Kindergarten!
Leslie, the problem to me happened when they stopped building ice rinks and baseball fields that were open to all, and started making them all subject to schedules, that mostly favoured leagues and clubs.
When I was a kid playing softball or street hockey, we would get into arguments (“You’re out” “No I’m not” “Yes you are!”, etc.) and we would learn to settle them without any adults around. Playing hockey on our outdoor rink, there were often two or three games going on on the same surface. The big kids had to learn to move around the little kids; the little kids had to learn how to get out of the big kids’ way. We all had to learn how to respect each other, otherwise our games could not co-exist. (On an unrelated note, it taught kids how to stickhandle and skate; I once saw a game on a canal in Valleyfield, Quebec – there must have been 50 kids playing on a surface bigger than a football field, and I only saw one puck.)
Now, the kids are bossed around by adults; they have schedules at locations that aren’t nearby, so they need to driven by their parents (my friends just ran over from their houses). My elder daughter just finished her soccer season today. At a parents’ meeting with the coach last week, he said he wanted to start them on twice a week practices – in September. The kids have no say; if they don’t want to stick to the coach’s schedule, they’re off the team.
Wasn’t Maria Montessori’s guiding principle that kids need unstructured time to kindle a love of learning? I think kids need unstructured play to learn how to co-operate, respect each other, and self-discipline. By denying that to them, we have turned out a generation of kids who don’t know how to resolve conflicts on their own, and go running to teacher/parent/coach every time there’s an argument, and whine and cry to get their way. I don’t think this is a good thing.
“In 2005, two elementary schools in the nearby Falcon School District did away with tag and similar games in favor of alternatives with less physical contact. School officials said the move encouraged more students to play games and helped reduce playground squabbles.”
Just wait until these protected kids get out into the real world and find out what kind of monsters they have to deal with.
They will be spending all their loose change playing tag with their therapists.
I am glad I am old now. I won’t have to be here to suffer the fate of out society when these wimps are running the show. The wimps running it now are bad enough and most of them did play tag. Some may have also played dodge the ball and worse.
I remember one of my teachers trying to open the door to the supply cabinet in our classrooms which had jammed back in elementary school. He asked if anyone had a pocket knife he could borrow and nearly every boy in the class raised a hand.
No one got expelled. No one got stabbed. This was thirty some years ago, mind you.
Playing competitive games that involve any kind of contact is downright masculine!
We all know that men and their aggressive masculine behavior is what’s responsible for all the evils in the Western world. It must be stamped out.
Tag should, instead, be played by placing everyone’s name in a hat, and a certified, qualified adult educator to pull out the names and call “tag”.
Should any of the boys complain, they need to be reminded that their days of patriarchy is now a thing of the past!
Let’s see: we played regular tag, shadow tag, corner tag, frozen tag, British Bulldog (where you were basically a punt returner minus the football-ever try to run with a bunch of third graders clinging to your back?–oh, the horror…the squabbles…having….a flashback)
Damn moonbats are turning this world into a place full of pansies and wusses. Reminds me of the idiots who insist that everyone who signs up for a sports team gets to play, no matter how terrible they are. There are winners and losers in society. Games are a good way of sorting that out. How will these kids be able to handle the competition of life in the real world? The day any moron tells my kids that they cannot play tag, is the day that moron pees his pants from the dressing down he/she receives from me. PATHETIC!
And we all know that conflict is bad, and children will never encounter it later in real life, because the socialist utopia in which they will live will be conflict free.
Conflict is a part of life, and children need to learn how to live with it, and deal with it. That’s called education.
“Sometimes we even carried scissors”
Kate, you wild thing you. Next thing you will tell us is that you have a gun and ride a motorcycle too!
(In my day real ladies didn’t own a musket and rode side saddle 😉
Western society is doomed because we fear everything. We try to insulate our children from life itself. We are attempting to sanitize all risk from our children’s lives which leave them with an empty existence. We now take this a step further. We now have the usual leftards who worry about their kids demanding laws are passed to mollycoddle everyone else’s kids too.
To fill this void in our children’s lives we teach them narcissism and self-centred selfishness (a redundancy to extenuate the point..)
We no longer ensure that bad behaviour has any consequences because we’re too afraid our children may not be happy and that they won’t see us as a friend instead of realizing that you should be a parent and not a friend until your child grows up. We do this from day one so that when the parents realize what awful behaviour this mollycoddling has produced, it’s far too much of a bother to change. This is why you see kids throwing fits in public. If this was never tolerated from day one anywhere, the child would learn to behave. When a child’s behaviour leads to poor outcomes, they learn not to do it. When good behaviour leeds them to positive results, they learn to behave. Since most kids learn that their meltdowns produce results, they have them more often. It’s reverse classical conditioning. It’s the dog ringing the bell and the owner salivating on command.
When these kids grow up they’re in for it. They’ve never learned to empathise with others as they’ve been taught nothing but their own “self-esteem” which is the only trait they’ll have in abundance. When they get into the real world, they’ll have a hell of a time trying to cope with reality.
I knew there was a reason I turned out like I am! It was those repressive childhood games that did it — yea, that’s the ticket…
You depress me, Warwick. You depress me because you’re right.
Guys and gals, all is not lost. Two words for you:
Extreme
Sports.
I see kids doing stunts on skateboards and bicycles that I never saw anybody outside a circus daredevil do when I was a kid. I mean, we thought ten-pedaler wheelies were IT. These days even the girls do wheelies, stoppies are the deal now. You know, where you stand the bike up on the -front- wheel. I can sort of do it on my trials bike, but a bicycle? Woo.
Kids have the same guts as ever, its the grown-ups that don’t.
I know the solution, actually. And I offer to give up my right to vote, just to take these twits with me.
@Kate:
That’s not going to be practicable, unless elections are widely seen as an impediment to a hyper-responsive government…which doesn’t exactly square off with limitation of government. The only other way to restrict the franchise is to outright hijack the government, and make such a measure stick through explicit use of force.
You might as well wish for another Norman Conquest. It’s been extension of the franchise in the Anglo world since then; even a hinted (or inferred) threat of going in the opposite direction, through the promulgation of Divine Right, was met with civil war and the execution of a king in England. Consider that the American analog to the English Civil War got rolling in large part thanks to a credible rumour that the Church of America was going to become the established church there.
As far as Canada is concerned, we’ve always had a representative component to government. The Rebellions of 1837 protested the divvy-up of power between the elective and the appointive branches at that time.
When it comes to the twits associated with schools all taxpayers either made it happen or let it happen. And we all go down together.
Unfortunately, this school isn’t located in “Moonbat’s” ville. Check my post here.
tower…add to that list a neighborhood game of tic-toc. We ran thru the neighbours yards(got yelled at but never arrested for trespassing), and we had ‘jail’.(someone’s porch) The kids on your team could get you out by yelling “tic-toc” and touching the rail.(easy…just like court today)
Lot’s of good fights and laughs with good friends.
non of us are criminals…girls or guys.
Big stupid wussie brother is now sissifiying our kids what now RED ROVER or CAT AND MOUSE? Heck those wussietards has even barred COPS AND ROBBERS, COWBOY AND INDIAN i mean before you know it they will ban kids from playing HOUSE. This is what happens when the sniveling sissys take over these schools