Attleboro School Bans Tag, Other Recess Games
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Attleboro School Bans Tag, Other Recess Games(CBS4) ATTLEBORO Children at the Willett Elementary School in Attleboro are not allowed to play tag, touch football or any games involving contact during recess.
You knew this was coming, with all the “save the children” tactics involved in locking down the public prisons schools.
Prinicpal Gaylene Heppe cited the safety risks and the school’s liability in case of injury as reasons for the recess ban. Heppe, who is in her second year as principal, told CBS4 the ban is not new and has been in effect for years.
I see this as a result of our “sue to hit the jackpot” mentality these days. Any time someone stubs their big toe, they sue. Hey, you know what, life is messy, deal with it. Take responsibilty for your own actions. You may even have to take responsibility for your childrens. If your child is playing and manages to get injured, that’s not the teacher, school, or counties fault. Guess what, it’s your child’s fault, and your fault. Now, I’m not saying that you shouldn’t let them do it, children need to make mistakes, it’s a great way to learn.
“I was surprised….I think they should be allowed to. I used to run and chase, play kickball, dodgeball, all that,” said parent Colleen Bischoff.
Critics of the policy said it’s just another way to micromanage kids.
“Kids will be kids, no matter what. Kids are going to trip on rocks, it happens,” said one unidentified parent.
The Attleboro Sun Chronicle reports elementary schools in Cheyenne, Wyo. and Spokane, Wash. banned tag at recess this year. A suburban Charleston, S.C. school also outlawed all unsupervised contact sports.
Principal Heppe said she isn’t interested in any trends around the country, her concern lies with keeping the children as safe as possible.
That’s the answer, lets just keep everyone “safe”. Why don’t they just stick them in a strait-jacket and put them in a rubber room for 8 hours a day? That way they’d be guaranteed to be “safe”. Living life is not about being safe all the time. Life is dangerous, we all die at the end of it.
Here’s a question for you. The door to the middle school roof is left unlocked. Your child goes up the door, onto the roof, and falls (or jumps, either way) off. Whose fault is it? My guess would be that more than 50% of you out there would answer that it’s the schools fault, or the janitor, or whoever had the key to the door. Gues what, it’s not. It was either your childs choice to go up there on the roof, knowing the consequences, or it was your fault for not telling your child what will happen if they fall/jump off a roof. It is not the job of the school to be your childs parent or nanny. It is their job to educate them. Some of you will whine and moan about “negligance”. There was no negligance involved here. There was nothing done that caused any danger to anyone. A door left open has to be walked through. This is a big part of what is currently wrong with our society today, our need to pass our responsibilities on to someone else, so we can also pass on the blame.