Danger! Kids Playing Tag

[Cesaria]

There's a lot of BS in the job, but I still do it because I genuinely enjoy seeing that moment where the penny drops and something clicks together in a kid and they figure out what you've been banging on about all week.

As for the crazy tag rules - my classes tend to drive me nuts changing them 10 times over each playtime and arguing about it. In the end with one class I sat them down and we wrote the class standardized tag rules (also known as "now quit arguing about them cos you're driving Miss round the twist").

[Skyylya]

This is happening due to a movement i like to call 'the pussification of amerca's youth'

Basically we're systematically castrating the ability for teachers to do their job because parents want their kids to 'feel good' instead of prepare them for life.

Life isn't all about feeling all warm and fuzzy inside, it's about facing problems and dealing with them. Life is full of problems and low self esteem, the best time to learn tht is when you're young so that when you hopefully grow up, you can deal with it.

[Demetrick]

I wonder if Team Handball has been banned from my highschool. A super fun, high intensity game, also known as ... run around hockey without pads and trying to pelt the goalie (because he was probably a kid that you didn't like) in the face.

[Zylo]

Thank god I'm at the ass end of my career in the public school system. Even as a senior in high school, this kind of ridiculous shit is starting to rear it's ugly head. They don't let us have sugary foods for the most part, which is real great since I'm diabetic. I've fucking gotten yelled at for trying to not let my blood sugar dip too low countless times, I've even gotten a detention for it (later revoked when my father threatened to "Fuck the school up"). This may not seem like a big deal to you, but shit, if kids can't learn enough self control to not eating sugary foods all the time, it's no wonder so god damned many drug addicts are plaguing the system these days. School is the place where that kind of basic shit is supposed to be instilled into youthes, not the place where they are shielded from any problems they might face in the real world. Sorry to rant, but the piling on of dumbass rules ad nauseam while real problems such as subpar teachers are not addressed.

[Haelian]

Dodgeball was banned from my HS my senior year.

Banning dodgeball makes a little more sense though, I remember getting pounded numerous times on the head/face/balls. It's somewhat dangerous unlike Tag.

I live about 30 minutes away from Attleboro, MA. And I am terribly embarassed to even live that close. It's a ban on a trivial children's game; perhaps the committee should consider looking into bigger issues besides a possibility of lowering a kid's self esteem from being shitty at a game.

Oh well, Suicide's a much better game anyway.

[Yensho]

Hell, they're going about it the wronog way anyway. The best way for a kids self-esteem to go up is to win or do really well at those competitive games.

I'm not the most fit of people, and back in middle school(private school, too), when I was required to go to P.E., one game we loved to play was four-square dodgeball. It invloved taking every single guy in the grade, splitting them into four teams, and making the gym a big-ass four square court. And it was hella fun. You could make alliances with other squares, and if your team got the last person out on another team, you got their territory to use as you see fit.

I remember one game, my team made an alliance with another one and we annihilated the other two teams. It came down to me and my friend, Bobby, against about 5 other people, the majority being ones who played sports. And we were awesome. I could hear cheers from my fallen teammates. When it was all over(we lost), everyone told us how we were pulling matrix shit, leaning back to dodge, jumping over thrown balls.

I'll be damned if that wasn't the happiest experience for multiple people from middle school, and anyone who says otherwise is a damn liar.

[Skyylya]

Hell, they're going about it the wronog way anyway. The best way for a kids self-esteem to go up is to win or do really well at those competitive games.

I'm not the most fit of people, and back in middle school(private school, too), when I was required to go to P.E., one game we loved to play was four-square dodgeball. It invloved taking every single guy in the grade, splitting them into four teams, and making the gym a big-ass four square court. And it was hella fun. You could make alliances with other squares, and if your team got the last person out on another team, you got their territory to use as you see fit.

I remember one game, my team made an alliance with another one and we annihilated the other two teams. It came down to me and my friend, Bobby, against about 5 other people, the majority being ones who played sports. And we were awesome. I could hear cheers from my fallen teammates. When it was all over(we lost), everyone told us how we were pulling matrix shit, leaning back to dodge, jumping over thrown balls.

I'll be damned if that wasn't the happiest experience for multiple people from middle school, and anyone who says otherwise is a damn liar.

Well, while i'm not disagreeing with the fact that it was a lot of fun, it doesn't quite support the fact that it helps kids self esteem.

Half those kids had the time of their life winning, how about the other half that you annihilated? Probably not as much.

[Scythiroth]

Teaches them to try harder. No point in trying if "everyone is a winner" or w/e crap they do now.

[Altanass]

we dont have dodgeball in the UK, but at least i got a new sig

[Devek]

I sucked balls when it came to sports and especially basketball, that didn't stop me from having a blast playing.

Learning how not to be a sore looser is just as important as winning because in most competitive activities you get your ass handed to you when you first start out.

[Skyylya]

I sucked balls when it came to sports and especially basketball, that didn't stop me from having a blast playing.

Learning how not to be a sore looser is just as important as winning because in most competitive activities you get your ass handed to you when you first start out.

See i was alway's really good at sports, but class always got me depressed, especially math. Perhaps we should start a movement to ban math from school considering it has been shown to lower kids self esteem. People tell me i don't like like your typical video game nerd, more like a jock, except i've been a video gamer my entire life. Just also been a high school and collegiate athlete (til i got injured anyway, which was pretty early on)

[Scythiroth]

See i was alway's really good at sports, but class always got me depressed, especially math. Perhaps we should start a movement to ban math from school considering it has been shown to lower kids self esteem. People tell me i don't like like your typical video game nerd, more like a jock, except i've been a video gamer my entire life. Just also been a high school and collegiate athlete (til i got injured anyway, which was pretty early on)

I was good at math for a while....but started to suck really bad at it eventually. I'd rather run around in the 120 degree temperatures here in the summer than do math now.

[Metah]

The best part of Dodgeball is when the teacher steps out for a minute or something, and someone yell's "ALL ON <insert name>" and even that person's teammates turn around and pelt the shit out of him. Hahaha, good times.

Seriously, people need to learn to toughen up. Either that, or learn that suing over ridiculous shit like this isn't the best way to get rich quick.