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School district bans 'tag' to ensure physical, emotional safety of students
Posted on 9/25/15 at 9:57 am
Posted on 9/25/15 at 9:57 am
What the frick is wrong with people in this country?
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MERCER ISLAND, Wash. -- Kids at the Mercer Island School District are now banned from playing the popular childhood game of tag on the playground.
Parents told Q13 Fox News they had no idea about the ban until their kids told them. Now, moms and dads are asking why they weren’t part of the decision-making process.
Mercer Island School District communications director Mary Grady explained the district’s decision via email:
“The Mercer Island School District and school teams have recently revisited expectations for student behavior to address student safety. This means while at play, especially during recess and unstructured time, students are expected to keep their hands to themselves. The rationale behind this is to ensure the physical and emotional safety of all students.
"School staffs are working with students in the classroom to ensure that there are many alternative games available at recess and during unsupervised play, so that our kids can still have fun, be with their friends, move their bodies and give their brains a break.”
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MERCER ISLAND, Wash. -- Kids at the Mercer Island School District are now banned from playing the popular childhood game of tag on the playground.
Parents told Q13 Fox News they had no idea about the ban until their kids told them. Now, moms and dads are asking why they weren’t part of the decision-making process.
Mercer Island School District communications director Mary Grady explained the district’s decision via email:
“The Mercer Island School District and school teams have recently revisited expectations for student behavior to address student safety. This means while at play, especially during recess and unstructured time, students are expected to keep their hands to themselves. The rationale behind this is to ensure the physical and emotional safety of all students.
"School staffs are working with students in the classroom to ensure that there are many alternative games available at recess and during unsupervised play, so that our kids can still have fun, be with their friends, move their bodies and give their brains a break.”
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Posted on 9/25/15 at 9:58 am to RedRifle
They should just skip to it and start wrapping kids in bubble wrap and making them wear helmets.
This post was edited on 9/25/15 at 10:07 am
Posted on 9/25/15 at 9:59 am to RedRifle
These school administrators are harming kids. Young kids, especially boys, need aggressive outlets. They're genetically wired to be aggressive and when you suppress that instinct, you get problems.
Posted on 9/25/15 at 10:00 am to RedRifle
Either someone got sued or some fat kid told his mom he's tired from playing tag and mom is a SJW.
Posted on 9/25/15 at 10:01 am to RedRifle
Really, I bet I can tell you where the future generation of serial killers and highway snipers are coming from.
Posted on 9/25/15 at 10:03 am to Agforlife
They need to bring back dodgeball and teach boys boxing and wrestling in PE Classes starting at an early age.
Posted on 9/25/15 at 10:05 am to Antonio Moss
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These school administrators are harming kids. Young kids, especially boys, need aggressive outlets. They're genetically wired to be aggressive and when you suppress that instinct, you get problems.
Then they don't know why they are rambunctious in class and pump them full of adderall.
Yayyy America!
Posted on 9/25/15 at 10:06 am to Antonio Moss
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They need to bring back dodgeball and teach boys boxing and wrestling in PE Classes starting at an early age.
I'm 27 and we played dodgeball (called it Warball) from 1st grade up until high school.
Have they stopped this?
Also taught us wrestling in 8th grade. So much fun.
Posted on 9/25/15 at 10:07 am to RedRifle
Back in my day we played smear the queer... the game that turns boys into men.
Posted on 9/25/15 at 10:07 am to RedRifle
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MERCER ISLAND, Wash.
The whole left coast is just fricked up
Posted on 9/25/15 at 10:08 am to RedRifle
It motivates fat kids to get skinny so they can catch their classmates. it's a win-win.
Posted on 9/25/15 at 10:08 am to TheCaterpillar
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Have they stopped this?
A lot have.
My old high school (all boys) still plays it religiously. It's the students' favorite PE sport. Head shots encouraged.
Posted on 9/25/15 at 10:09 am to RedRifle
We used to play "kill the guy with the ball" during elementary school recess.
It was fun and the teachers never tried to stop us (and we would have looked at them like they were crazy if they tried).
It was fun and the teachers never tried to stop us (and we would have looked at them like they were crazy if they tried).
This post was edited on 9/25/15 at 10:17 am
Posted on 9/25/15 at 10:09 am to RedRifle
Not It !
Posted on 9/25/15 at 10:10 am to MaroonWhite
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"kill the guy with the ball"
Smear the queer
Posted on 9/25/15 at 10:10 am to RedRifle
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emotional safety
someone tagged me at school today
Posted on 9/25/15 at 10:10 am to MaroonWhite
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We used to play "kill the guy with the ball" during elementary school recession recess.
It was fun and the teachers never tried to stop us (and we would have looked at them like they were crazy if they tried).
Smear the Queer is a timeless classic!
And "Queer" literally means "strange; odd" so we tackle the person with the ball because they are different than the other kids without the ball, not because we are pretending he likes dicks in his arse.
Posted on 9/25/15 at 10:14 am to TheCaterpillar
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And "Queer" literally means "strange; odd" so we tackle the person with the ball because they are different than the other kids without the ball, not because we are pretending he likes dicks in his arse.
No, it's definitely the gay angle... plus it rhymes with smear.
Red rover used to get pretty heated too. Never failed that someone would get clotheslined like a mfer.
Posted on 9/25/15 at 10:15 am to terd ferguson
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Red rover used to get pretty heated too. Never failed that someone would get clotheslined like a mfer.
Very intense.
As pledges in college they made us play this drunk in our suits on concrete and we all gave 110%. Actually a ton of fun.
Some advice, Red Rover is straight up deadly with full grown adults
Posted on 9/25/15 at 10:15 am to RedRifle
The pussification of our country continues.
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