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[kingplaya4]

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/10/18/no.tag.ap/index.html

Twenty years from now, the average American will be the wimpiest person in the world.

[Tiberious aka Sparkles]

First dodgeball, now tag!?

Tag!!!???

The end is nigh.

[Sleepy in Seoul]

[Novernae]

[ajgeddes]

At my elementary school, we weren't allowed to play tag or any game where you touched another person, except baseball. However, we had to use a tennis ball.

[kingplaya4]

Not that we were real bad asses or anything, but in fifth grade everyday we would go to this back lot where there was unfinished contstruction and throw each other off of a dirt mound maybe four of five feet high. We literally did this every recess, and I'm sure teachers saw, but never heard any complaints.

I also got into two fistfights that got caught by faculty, and maybe I'm getting old, but I don't remember any serious consequences, I think I might have gotten detention one of the times. I hear schools will call the police now for just about anything that exceeds a very minor scuffle.

I'd feel sorry for any American kid that would have to go through the Korean school system for some reason...unless he was one of those kids that was already 6'4 and 250 by age 14, he'd be in for a world of hurt...

[happeningthang]

At my primary school we played "British Bulldog". Essentially rugby without the ball or rules. A group of kids stopping one or two of another group crossing the field by tackling, wrestling and pinning them down. This was a PE favourite organised by teachers.

[mole]

What's that game we used to play? It involved tossing a tennis ball at a high wall with penalties for failing to catch it or letting it hit you.
Penalized players could take up a protective position, but it was still pretty much free shots with the ball.

Glory Daze.

[hogwonguy1979]

man what would think of us playing "smear the queer" which we played all the time in elementary school?

banning "tag" unbelieveable

[Beej]

[Demophobe]

When I was in elem school, there was a game with the gruesome name of "N!gger pile." We hadn't a clue to what it meant, and I have no idea how it came into our vocabulary in the nowhere of Regina, Saskatchewan.

The "game" (a stretch) was simply to push one kid to the ground, and eveyone else jumps on him, making a pile of bodies, under which, one kid is crushed.

Later, it became "Pile on"; the name changed mysteriously; we weren't told the awful meaning of the other term, and that wasn't the motivation for change. Pretty sad for kids to use such a derogatory term unknowingly.

Face-pasting dodge ball games, Red Rover, winter hockey on a flooded playground with no equipment, Evil Knievel-esque BMX jumps...not sure how I survived childhood.

[ajgeddes]

[seoulsucker]

The kids at the high school I taught at last year played a great game.

The would stand in a circle and juggle a soccer ball, and the first 4 players to drop the ball would have to stand on the bleachers, with their butts sticking out. The other players would then get take PKs at them...injurious, but hilarious.

[huffdaddy]

[laogaiguk]

I say shoot all liberal arts grads who can't pass a test we can make up for having any common sense whatsoever. This is just stupid.

No discipline whatsoever in schools anymore, and shielding them completely from the world, while trying to make up for all the lazy parents who don't teach anything to children, relying on the schools. I still remember the time I broke my arm in nothing but the fondest sense. It was fun! Not that we should start breaking arms, but I think most people will get my point