TAG! Kids game OUT at school
Oh no, here we go yet again! Another case of schools protecting children from being normal children!
Robyn Hooker, principal of Kent Gardens Elementary School, has told students they may no longer play tag during recess after determining that the game of chasing, dodging and yelling “You’re it!” had gotten out of hand. Hooker explained to parents in a letter this month that tag had become a game “of intense aggression.”The principal said that her goal is to keep students safe and that she hopes to restore tag (as well as touch football, also now on hold) after teachers and administrators review recess policies.The decision has touched off a debate among parents. Some call the restriction an example of overzealous rulemaking that fails to address root problems and undermines children’s development; others say it’s best to err on the side of caution.“We are regulating the fun out of normal childhood activity,” said Jan van Tol, father of a Kent Gardens sixth-grader. “In our effort to be so overprotective, we are not letting children be children.”
Oh Lord, how did millions of children who were lucky enough to miss the hypersensitivity bandwagon and PC EVER survive? I mean we played tag, tackle football, sandlot baseball a game called smear the you know what, and cowboys and Indians, and rode bikes without helmets, and yet we manage to function.