According to a paper in Colorado, the Discovery Canyon Campus school school has banned the game Tag on its playground because some of the kids were being harassed or chased against their will.

Where were these administrators when I was a kid being lined up against a wall so I could "play" Dodge Ball? How bout when all the popular kids would want me to play "Red Rover"? Do you know that on 12 straight occasions, George Wolfe didn't try to break our arms apart but instead he tackled me. YEAH!

I liked playing Four Square, Kickball and Tag when I was little. I even liked playing Dodge Ball and Red Rover. Were there fights on the playground? You bet. Did bullies pick on me? What do you think?

Obviously no kid should be hurt or constantly singled out BUT, there are bullies in life and learning how to deal with them on a playground is how you learn to deal with them later in life too.

Eventually dorks, nerds, geeks and any other group that isn't a social or physical bully will stand up to their oppressor. That's the way it's been since the beginning of time and now what has happened? The bullies on that playground have been stopped from playing tag and given more ammunition to fire at will against whatever kid complained and the kid that complained in the first place and every other kid in that school has been denied the ability to learn about conflict resolution.

The problem with that is that these kids who play video games where they beat, kill and blow up everything and everyone else on a screen now have one less opportunity to learn how to sort out being part of a society...GREAT!

Raise em in cotton balls...that generation is the one that will nuke the world.

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