No Tag anymore !?!

[Blanchard_Michael () emc com]

Kinda off topic.....  

lets just wrap our kids in bubble wrap and make sure they don't move for fear they might get a scrape or a skinned 
knee....

This is rediculous if you ask me... 

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

ATTLEBORO, Massachusetts (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. (Watch how second-grader Kelsey interpreted the rule -- 1:30)

Elementary schools in Cheyenne, Wyoming, and Spokane, Washington, also recently banned tag during recess. A suburban 
Charleston, South Carolina, 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 40 miles 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.

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redistributed.


Michael P. Blanchard 
Antivirus / Security Engineer, CISSP, GCIH, CCSA-NGX, MCSE
Office of Information Security & Risk Management 
EMC ² Corporation 
4400 Computer Dr. 
Westboro, MA 01580 

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