Tag is a menace to our children and must be stopped!

[cluebyfour]

No, I'm not talking about the body spray that supposedly makes you irresistible to hot women.  This is the game of tag, played on playgrounds the world over . . . except the playground at Discovery Canyon Campus school in Colorado Springs:

An elementary school has banned tag on its playground after some children complained they were harassed or

Comments

[cluebyfour]

Heh. It's definitely the most conservative part of the state. There's a huge military presence down there, as well as Focus on Your Own Damn the Family.

Ironically, the Colorado Springs city government extends benefits to domestic partners of its employees. It's a place of paradoxes.

[ilcylic]

How the fuck do you play tag with someone against their will?

"Tag, you're it!"

Kid who doesn't want to play: "Ok"
Kid who tagged: *runs away*
Kid who doesn't want to play: *doesn't chase*

[_luaineach]

hahahaha.

[cluebyfour]

Heh. I mean, if they're running away from kids who are trying to "tag" them, aren't they implicitly giving their permission to play?? It boggles the mind.

[tcpip]

That was my first thought as well. It's simply not possible.

[_luaineach]

At Jet's school they still play battle ball in after hours care. And they still call it battle ball. Jet told me they *sometimes* call it "dodge ball" but that dodge ball doesn't seem as accurate because really you are more concerned with beaming the other kids than dodging....

[ms_cantrell]

that's profoundly lame. am laughing.

[dragon_smoke]

Our version in the third grade was "Kiss in the Dungeon." There was an outside staircase you could crawl under- that was the dungeon. It was always boys vs, girls, and when it was your sides turn you ran out after the boys, grabbed them back to the dungeon, and they could only get out again if someone kissed them.

In today's world, we would all be tired and convicted as sex offenders I am sure. Expelled most definitely. Thrown into juvie, probably, if not intense counseling. What I don't get is that the parents of today are the ones who played all these games with us on the playground!