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The Banning of Tag

October 19th, 2006 • 3:51 pm •

Announcements, Schools, Children's Health

tag Well, this headline sure grabbed my attention. Seems like I was just reading about the ban on dodgeball in certain schools, now they’ve dropped the hammer on tag.

Hard to believe growing up without playing tag. Seem to remember spending lots of time running around chasing my friends (and no one ever got hurt). If they keep cutting back on ways to for kids to have fun and get some exercise, the childhood obesity problem may get even worse.

ATTLEBORO, Mass. - 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.