Colorado Springs School Bans Tag on Playground, Citing Conflicts


COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — An elementary school has banned tag on its playground after some children complained they were harassed or chased against their will.
"It causes a lot of conflict on the playground," said Cindy Fesgen, assistant principal of the Discovery Canyon Campus school.
Running games are still allowed as long as students don't chase each other, she said.
Fesgen said two parents complained to her about the ban but most parents and children didn't object.
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.



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Tag sucks.

We always played Kick the Can or Capture the Flag.

Those were a lot more fun.

It was a simpler time back in the forties and fifties. We were allowed to play tag, arm wrestle, bring cap guns to school and just act like kids. There weren't all the intrusive rules there are today.

and while the children of our enemies play polo with goat carcasses on horseback, our kids cant play tag. way to go liberals!

and while the children of our enemies play polo with goat carcasses on horseback, our kids cant play tag. way to go liberals!
go easy on the liberals, it's not they're fault their kids are a bunch of lumbering oafs that can't run w/o out tripping and breaking their RPGs.

and while the children of our enemies play polo with goat carcasses on horseback, our kids cant play tag. way to go liberals!
Colorado Springs is a liberal bastion, now? News to me!

We used to play king of the mountain on the jungle gym. Oh the broken arms I've seen...

good times.

We used to play king of the mountain on the jungle gym. Oh the broken arms I've seen...

good times.
dodge ball, bloody noses:thumbs:

heaven forbid ANYONE EVER have to learn the hard way.

sheesh,why not take recess away completely and put the kids in padded suits and padded rooms:rolleyes:

Colorado Springs School Bans Tag on Playground, Citing Conflicts


COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — An elementary school has banned tag on its playground after some children complained they were harassed or chased against their will.
"It causes a lot of conflict on the playground," said Cindy Fesgen, assistant principal of the Discovery Canyon Campus school.
Running games are still allowed as long as students don't chase each other, she said.
Fesgen said two parents complained to her about the ban but most parents and children didn't object.
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.



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Good grief!

What are we Americans becoming that we're raising children that cannot play a simple game of Tag anymore?????

I broke my arm on the monkey bars in 2nd grade. God forbid that ever happen to another child! :eek:

Tag sucks.

We always played Kick the Can or Capture the Flag.

Those were a lot more fun.

I loved playing kick the can as a kid. And I agree, it was way better than tag.

Wow!

I live in Colorado Springs and didn't hear of this one...yet.

It probably has more to do with the law suit mentality than the kid actually becoming injured.

Johnny fell....waaaah, sue the world. Someone must pay. Someone always has to pay.

reminds me of my father in law. biggest ass kissing pussy on the planet. paranoid, worries all the time, won't and never hardly did anything exciting or risky. father died and raised by his mother. even carries an umbrella at the slightest sign of rain . even to check the fucking mail.

the slightest whine from a kid or complaint he's ready for the ER.

When I was in grade school we played a game called smear the queer. One uy had a football and all the other guys tried to knock the crap out of him. I cant imagine a game like that happening now.

I heard this last night - and this sucks- heaven forbid any kid having a little chaos during recess! This is part of life and learning - I remember I used to be afraid of teeter totters - but I bravely mastered the art of them :thumbs:
I don't think teeter totters are on the playground anymore are they???
You protect kids too much, they will never toughen up. :mad:

I havent seen a teeter-totter in a long time

:confused:i haven't seen a see-saw since second grade.:(

Congratulations, your kid is a pansy.

What a crock of shit this is! I went to a private catholic elementary school and they ENCOURAGED games like tag and smear the queer (all-time favorite as well) for physical activity. Nowadays, the only physical activity you can get is by playing pokemon on your Nintendo-DS...or game boy if you have no sense of technological advancement. Before long, we'll hear kids complaining that their life points in the Yu-Gi-Oh card game were banished against their will because of an illegal magic card being used with the dragon monster that was originally set up in defense mode...fuck, I dunno!

Recess' future will soon fade away, as children are no longer allowed to have fun.

Bans like this are the result of people who only consider the benefits of safety without considering the benefits of the prohibited activity. Unfortunately, that happens a lot these days where the keep-our-children-safe sheep are obeyed without question.

Kids still play smear the queer. :p

We used to play James Bond, cops and robbers, hopscotch, and jump rope.

That is, the girls played hopscotch and jump rope--the neighbor boys played a huge elaborate game called "army". They used their dads' old WWII canteens , walkie-talkies, and helmets. They played throughout the whole neighborhood. One boy's dad even helped him build a tank out of an old go-kart and scrap metal. They used a tree house to hold captives and staged battles against the poor boys who had to be the Germans or Japanese.

They would not let the girls play because we were sissies.

They would not let the girls play because we were sissies.
Hah... I guess that's the difference between your childhood and mine Ren.

The boys were usually willing to let us girls join in their street hockey games or bike races or playing sword fighting with large tree branches.

I thought it was interesting how most of us played the same games regardless of our age group. I don't know how I forgot about smear the queer. That was an awesome game.

We used to play even well after dark. The whole neighborhhood knew everyone and the parents would keep an eye on all of us. Even at dark, we felt safe because everyone knew everyone. We'd walk to the downtown to buy bread for mom even as late as midnight or so.

We'd play "monster" at the neighbor lady's. A boy would pretend to be a pompous newscaster reporting on stories of monsters in the city. He would intone--"There is no such thing as monsters... I REPEAT, there is no such thing as monsters."

That was the signal for another boy to come charging around the house, yelling and being a monster and chasing the rest of us while we yelled at the top of our lungs. We played this game for HOURS and the neighbor lady had a new infant in her house!

Not once did she come out and tell us to pipe down or go home. In fact, she gave us popsicles and was kindly.

God, I sound like an old broad reminiscing about the old days. But what the hey--I AM an old broad.

Those were fun times.

We used to play James Bond, cops and robbers, hopscotch, and jump rope.

We were just talking about this the other day at work. I don't think I have seen the sidewalks marked up for hopscotch or seen a group of kids playing jump rope for years.

We had a cool hopscotch layout in the form of a huge snail. I sure worked your legs. And jump rope is an amazing cardio workout. Guess that's why there were only 3 fat kids in a class of 30.

Then again, today they would just be chunky compared to these hefers... oops did I say that.

I played hopscotch & jump rope when I was little, but it does seem like my little sister does less of that. Then again now that she's started kindergarten she'll start learning all the games I suppose.

I used to be part of the "boys squad". I absolutely hated it when girls would call me to play Barbie with them, blegh. Lol! Our all-time favorite was soccer. I used to get soooo many bruises.

Congratulations, your kid is a pansy.

What a crock of shit this is! I went to a private catholic elementary school and they ENCOURAGED games like tag and smear the queer (all-time favorite as well) for physical activity. Nowadays, the only physical activity you can get is by playing pokemon on your Nintendo-DS...or game boy if you have no sense of technological advancement. Before long, we'll hear kids complaining that their life points in the Yu-Gi-Oh card game were banished against their will because of an illegal magic card being used with the dragon monster that was originally set up in defense mode...fuck, I dunno!

Recess' future will soon fade away, as children are no longer allowed to have fun.

It's hard to believe that trick or treat has not been banned yet. It probably will be in the future.:hahanot:

all the playgrounds are now plastic with rubber chips under all the equipment,well around here anyways. What sucks is those rubber chips turn my daughters clothes and shoes black and it's harder than heck to wash out.

If my parents had a dollar for every cut,scrape or bruise any of their kids got playing on the playground at recess,they'd be millionaires.
I can't count the number of times I got hurt at recess and all I needed was a band aid and I was back playing.
Kids are wussies these days plain and simple. Let them fall and get hurt,have interaction and conflicts with other kids,how else are they suppose to learn how to handle conflict on their own?

all the playgrounds are now plastic with rubber chips under all the equipment,well around here anyways. What sucks is those rubber chips turn my daughters clothes and shoes black and it's harder than heck to wash out.


If my parents had a dollar for every cut,scrape or bruise any of their kids got playing on the playground at recess,they'd be millionaires.
I can't count the number of times I got hurt at recess and all I needed was a band aid and I was back playing.
Kids are wussies these days plain and simple. Let them fall and get hurt,have interaction and conflicts with other kids,how else are they suppose to learn how to handle conflict on their own?

I think it's like this now partly because of house scared the schools are of becoming sued. Last thing a school wants is being sued by parent whose kids were unsafe at school.

Soon, the playground equipment will be bubble-wrapped, constructed on a giant ball pit...but then again, the kids might tear off the wrapping and suffocate themselves to death, or choke on the balls in the pit. Eh, at least I lived MY childhood without all this crap. I feel sorry for the kids going through something like this.

we all played on the metal equipment and still lived. Half the stuff we did as kids should have killed us,but it didn't and we're all alright........to a point,lol

And googs,yeah,I see you'repoint about the lawsuit happy idiots of this world. Honestly,it would have to be something a little more than my kid getting hurt on the playground(which btw,is pretty much expected to happen) to sue soemone.

Soon, the playground equipment will be bubble-wrapped, constructed on a giant ball pit...but then again, the kids might tear off the wrapping and suffocate themselves to death, or choke on the balls in the pit. Eh, at least I lived MY childhood without all this crap. I feel sorry for the kids going through something like this.

Seriously it's getting ridculous.


And googs,yeah,I see you'repoint about the lawsuit happy idiots of this world. Honestly,it would have to be something a little more than my kid getting hurt on the playground(which btw,is pretty much expected to happen) to sue soemone.

It's getting annoying living in a country where you can sue Mcdonalds for making you get fat. Seriously, wtf!

It's getting annoying living in a country where you can sue Mcdonalds for making you get fat. Seriously, wtf!

Believe me, it's a good thing that we sue businesses for selling disease-causing substances to the public for direct consumption. It's made a huge difference in people's dietary options already.

Believe me, it's a good thing that we sue businesses for selling disease-causing substances to the public for direct consumption. It's made a huge difference in people's dietary options already.
Yes it is a good thing we are making businesses culpable for selling food which is fried in fat which is carcinogenic. It is not good that some morbidly obese person can sue a company for making them "fat".

Believe me, it's a good thing that we sue businesses for selling disease-causing substances to the public for direct consumption. It's made a huge difference in people's dietary options already.

True. But the responsibility shouldn't be held directly against the business. Consumers should have some responsibility. After all, they decided to eat there.

Yes it is a good thing we are making businesses culpable for selling food which is fried in fat which is carcinogenic. It is not good that some morbidly obese person can sue a company for making them "fat".

Agreed.

My little sister and her friends play on the new "safe" playground equipment, but hell if they don't still get hurt all the time. :confused:

My little sister and her friends play on the new "safe" playground equipment, but hell if they don't still get hurt all the time. :confused:


it's not any safer,just made out of wood,plastic and tubular steel,which isn't safe at all for playground use.

We were just talking about this the other day at work. I don't think I have seen the sidewalks marked up for hopscotch or seen a group of kids playing jump rope for years.If you grew up, as I did, in a typical middle-class suburban neighborhood, you'll remember that there were kids everywhere. I mean, you couldn't swing a dead cat without hitting one. Today, when I drive through those same neighborhoods, I'm struck by the absence of kids. No football games between yards, no bikes in the streets, no slackers just hanging out or anything. There are a lot of reasons for this -- the baby boom ended and so there are fewer kids. The ones that are left play video games inside or are in structured activities that require them to be driven somewhere (did anyone in our day ever have a practice or game they couldn't walk or ride a bike to?). While you still see kids everywhere in the inner city the culture of the suburbs has changed radically over the last thirty years or so.We'd play "monster" at the neighbor lady's. A boy would pretend to be a pompous newscaster reporting on stories of monsters in the city. He would intone--"There is no such thing as monsters... I REPEAT, there is no such thing as monsters."

That was the signal for another boy to come charging around the house, yelling and being a monster and chasing the rest of us while we yelled at the top of our lungs. We played this game for HOURS and the neighbor lady had a new infant in her house!When you read a book like Stephen King's It, or even Twain's Tom Sawyer, it's very easy to relate to the games of imagination the characters play. When you talk to others your own age about this you discover how universal the experience was -- we all had a great deal more freedom growing up than kids do today. The irony, of course, is that the generation which grew up so freely now regiments the lives of their own children so severely.

If you grew up, as I did, in a typical middle-class suburban neighborhood, you'll remember that there were kids everywhere. I mean, you couldn't swing a dead cat without hitting one. Today, when I drive through those same neighborhoods, I'm struck by the absence of kids. No football games between yards, no bikes in the streets, no slackers just hanging out or anything. There are a lot of reasons for this -- the baby boom ended and so there are fewer kids. The ones that are left play video games inside or are in structured activities that require them to be driven somewhere (did anyone in our day ever have a practice or game they couldn't walk or ride a bike to?). While you still see kids everywhere in the inner city the culture of the suburbs has changed radically over the last thirty years or so. You're right there were piles of kids everywhere and I could name every neighbour on the street and you pretty much knew what the inside of their home was like and how much "stuff" you could get away with according to their nature.

The area where I currently live ends in a cul-de-sac so it is quiet (at the front anyway) there is an expressway behind us. The houses and lots are large for the most part and there are small groups of kids that ride their bikes up and down the sidewalk but they stick pretty close to home and there is often an adult working on the lawn or in the drive way. When I see the kids I can imagine my childhood for a second till you see the bike helmets and knee and elbow guards. Then you realize it is a different world. Kids will likely never have the independence we had. Then again, maybe their world is more cerebral and they will not accept the easy violence that we do. I wonder if they will shun it by allowing others to control them or if they will avoid it by using their heads.

Hopefully the latter.

Tag sucks.

We always played Kick the Can or Capture the Flag.

Those were a lot more fun.

Um,In my day,Tag dint involve " sucking ".
Maybe that has somethin ta dude with yer disapproval...eh ?

When I was in grade school we played a game called smear the queer. One uy had a football and all the other guys tried to knock the crap out of him. I cant imagine a game like that happening now.



played that one among other really rough games. ever heard of jungle ball? basketball with no rules. we even played tackle football with no equipment. broke a nose on that one.

kids will eventually turn into little paranoid wimpy assed worthless shits before long. just sit on their asses playing video games, and computer crap. getting bigger and bigger and looking to sue someone for some cash.

Um,In my day,Tag dint involve " sucking ".
Maybe that has somethin ta dude with yer disapproval...eh ?Are you still mad about the 750 million tons of munitions in Iraq?

Get over it, already.

Are you still mad about the 750 million tons of munitions in Iraq?

Get over it, already.

Freud would have a field day with yer constant use of " mad ".
" mad about this,about that,and come to think of it mad about
nothing more maddening than being mad at Nuthin. "
Or " mad " cuz there ain't nuthin to really get mad at.

" Whom the gods would destroy,they
first make mad. "
-- Euripides

Freud would have a field day with yer constant use of " mad ".
" mad about this,about that,and come to think of it mad about
nothing more maddening than being mad at Nuthin. "
Or " mad " cuz there ain't nuthin to really get mad at.

" Whom the gods would destroy,they
first make mad. "
-- EuripidesIs it the gay saints?

Are your undies still in a bunch over that one?

Is it the gay saints?

Are your undies still in a bunch over that one?

Yeah...sure...why not.
Butt,yer still battin .100.
You need battin practice.
You Dude.

Pretty disgusting.........