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Massachusetts school bans playing tag at recess over fears of injuries, lawsuits
10:32:25 EDT Oct 18, 2006
Canadian Press
ATTLEBORO, Mass. (AP) - Tag, you're out!

Officials at an elementary school south of Boston have banned kids from playing tag, touch football and any other unsupervised chase game during recess for fear they'll get hurt and hold the school liable.

Recess is "a time when accidents can happen," said Willett Elementary School principal Gaylene Heppe, who approved the ban.

While there is no districtwide ban on contact sports during recess, local rules have been cropping up. Several school administrators around Attleboro, a city of about 45,000 residents, took aim at dodgeball a few years ago, saying it was exclusionary and dangerous.

Elementary schools in Cheyenne, Wyo., and Spokane, Wash., also recently banned tag during recess. A suburban Charleston, S.C., school outlawed all unsupervised contact sports.

"I think that it's unfortunate that kids' lives are micromanaged and there are social skills they'll never develop on their own," said Debbie Laferriere, who has two children at Willett, about 65 kilometres south of Boston. "Playing tag is just part of being a kid."

Another Willett parent, Celeste D'Elia, said her son feels safer because of the rule. "I've witnessed enough near collisions," she said.

This is the most ridiculus thing I've ever heard. Especially, the last parent: "I've witnessed enough near collisions," she said It's not like they're in cars. I thought childhood was all about scraped knees and elbows. Parents aren't leaving their kids enough room to be kids. They never learn to deal with anything on their own anymore.

[PEIGUY]

When will people realize the stupidness of these mistakes? How many generations of CEO's World Leaders played Tag when they were kids or had playground incidents? A kid colliding with another kid? what's next? no shoe laces because they might trip on them?

[Novernae]

[Adventurer]

I think we should not eat. If we eat, we may potentially choke, and that may lead to our death. I never got hurt playing tag. With obesity, at epidemic proportions, this makes as much sense as someone who hates flies placing a bag of trash outside the door. If you play P.E. you could potentially injure yourself. If you take a test, you could potentially fail, and you may have emotional anguish, as a result.

[Ya-ta Boy]

[jinju]

Ths school banned it because idiots like this like to sue over everything and should have their kids taken from them

Another Willett parent, Celeste D'Elia, said her son feels safer because of the rule. "I've witnessed enough near collisions," she said.

Ths school is doing what is logical: protecting its own ass from idiots who sue.

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