no fun for you.....

Call me stupid, but sometimes I think adults are the worst thing that ever happened to kids. I can't stand hovering parents who feel that they have to fight their kids' battles for them. Kids need figure things out for themselves while they're still kids. And to those adults who want to take away a simple pleasure of life like dodgeball from kids, you need to get a life.....

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. (So is bath time. Should we ban baths and showers?????)

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.
Elementary schools in Cheyenne, Wyo., and Spokane, Wash., also recently banned tag during recess. A suburban Charleston, S.C., 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." (She's obviously the only sane person they interviewed for this article.)

Another Willett parent, Celeste D'Elia, said her son feels safer because of the rule. "I've witnessed enough near collisions," she said. (My feeling is that ol' Celeste's son will get beat up on the playground alot regardless of what the school prohibits.....)