Grade school bans tag, other chase games

In a typical example of how sad and fucked-up society has become, officials at an elementary school south of Boston have banned kids from playing tag, touch football or any other unsupervised chase game during recess.

Why? Because the school is afraid that the kids might get hurt and hold the school liable.

I’ve got a problem with that. A big one, in fact.

In this day and age, kids have less and less time to actually BE kids. Don’t play - we might have to sue someone. Don’t express yourself - you might be politically incorrect and offend someone. Don’t sit on Santa’s lap - he might be a pedophile.

On and on the list goes.

But maybe it’s not the school or the principle or the administrators who are to blame.
Maybe we should blame the overprotective, over conscious, politically and racially oversensitive PARENTS who can’t accept the fact that children play, run, trip, fall over and get back up again.

Yes, they are going to get hurt and cry at some stage. But a bruised knee (which has never killed anyone and might even build some character) is no ground for legal action, no matter how much you paid for the ruined clothes, or how much your little baby cries.

Maybe we should start taking responsibility for our own children. For their sakes.


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