Elementary school bans Tag and touch football

[Dis]

I preferred tag over dodgeball. I was never a big dodgeball fan. Do people actually enjoy being smacked by a ball?

[Dis]

I remember smear the queer when I was in school. I can't remember the exact rules to it though.

somehow I doubt they allow that game in schools either.

[Will9]

Originally posted by Dis
I preferred tag over dodgeball. I was never a big dodgeball fan. Do people actually enjoy being smacked by a ball?

It's the "smacking" part that people enjoy.

This is creating a generation of pansies. If they can't learn to deal pain they will always fear it.

[SlowwHand]

I saw this. We're doomed to becoming a nation of geeks.
I agree with Will.

[Nubclear]

playground

We're raising a generation of pansies. If children can't learn to tolerate the pain of 9 hours of straight studying and research, then how can we expect them to tolerate 12 hours of work as an adult?

[Odin]

Originally posted by Lonestar
Creating a generation of pansies.

[Flubber]

I'm assuming they would really frown on when we would play guns and shoot at each other with pellet guns. The key was that we stayed at sufficient range not to do major damage and you had to shoot reasonably low not to get anyone in the eye. Guys that wore snow pants or heavy jackets were considered pansies. If we only had BB guns, the range could be shortened

THis type of game could never catch on in the cities as heavier weaponry could appear

[SlowwHand]

We had bb gun wars. Pellet was a stretch.

[MRT144]

i think waivers should be signed before one enters public education stating that the state/school is not to be held liable for injury that may occour. if you refuse to sign then your child will be disallowed from attending school without heavy fees

[Colonâ„¢]

Originally posted by Lonestar
Creating a generation of pansies.

[Cort Haus]

Principal Gaylene Heppe has unified Apolyton! On this issue.

[Barnabas]

I agree, but the kids should also learn to behead chickens with their hands, to compensate the pansyness it may generate.

It is actually quite easy, sometimes they run headless for 3 or 4 seconds

[Bosh]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
We used to have "monkey wars"

We would get on the monkey bars and attempt to pull the other person off them while staying up ourselves. It usually finished with two 10 year-olds falling in a heap from a height of 7-8 feet.

That sounds like great fun. We played cops and robbers with shoulder-checking being a valid way of escaping from jail. Until the teachers made us stop

And then we played kick ball until people got their feelings hurt for being picked last and the teacher picked random teams for us which made all of the games lop-sides

This sort of stuff has been going on for a looooooooong time...

[MRT144]

i actually got football banned from the playground after i pushed one kid into a fence. we had a fence by the field

[Eroberer]

Monkey bar wars were awesome. I was the king of that playground game. We also played monkey bar basketball, which was just as much fun, 'cus it lowered the "goal/basket" and pretty much necessitated banging around for lay ups, what with the bouncy rubber dodgeball we used. Man I used to love them monkey bars.

This is insane. It was on ESPN and Foxnews. It was roundly critcized as a dumb move.