8.30.2007

School Bans Tag After Parents Complain

Discovery Canyon Campus Doesn't Want Students Chasing Each Other

POSTED: 1:04 pm MDT August 29, 2007
UPDATED: 2:46 pm MDT August 29, 2007

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- A Colorado Springs elementary school is banning the game of tag on its playground -- after some children complained that they'd been chased or harassed against their will.

Assistant Principal Cindy Fesgen of the Discovery Canyon Campus school said running games will be allowed, as long as students don't chase each other.

Fesgen said two parents complained to her about the ban, but most parents and children didn't object.

Two elementary schools in the nearby Falcon School District did away with tag and similar games in 2005 in favor of alternatives with less physical contact. Officials at Evans and Meridian Ranch elementaries say that encouraged more students to play games, and helped reduce playground squabbles.

Colorado Springs schools are not alone. Schools in Cheyenne, Wyo., Spokane, Wash., and Attleboro, Mass., have banned tag at recess. A suburban Charleston, S.C., school not only banned tagged, but outlawed all unsupervised contact sports.

2 comments:

MommaBoo said...

WTH?

You know, our country is becoming to PC for our own good. Tag doesn't warp children.

Sheesh!

Cat. said...

How 'bout...instead of banning tag, we ban bullies?? Oy. For two years when my son was in elementary school he was bullied--and it wasn't tag: it was kids walking slowly behind him muttering comments that only he could hear.

Wouldn't it be nice to ban stupidity?