[C8]

A school has attempted to reduce physical contact among students by discouraging the game of tag among students. Apparently, this is in dispute and facing a parent backlash of sorts

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')b]School district stops kids from playing Tag to 'minimize negative physical interactions' among students

Mercer Island School District in Washington announced 'hands off' policy

Parents created STAR MI - 'Support Tag At Recess in MI' - Facebook group

Group gained attention and caused district to address the alleged ban

District said it wants kids to focus on other games but there is no outright ban on tag

Said 'well-intentioned desire to help protect kids has taken a life of its own'

[dissident]

You are quite clear and quite correct. This PC insanity is taking on greater and greater dimensions and transforming society into a disfunctional state just when it needs it least.

We are headed for the perfect storm of exogenous and endogenous shocks this century. I don't see any happy utopia in 2100.

[Tanada]

Thinking about this it seems like an outgrowth of the whole helicopter parent thing. We no longer let kids face any level of adversity, cushioning them from the real world and its consequences. We treat them like the Easter Lillis that used to be so popular for Greenhouses to grow over the winter months in an artificial hothouse. They look beautiful and strong, but when exposed to the outside weather on Easter Sunday they soon start wilting and dieing back, because they can not handle the conditions of the outside world.

Just like an artificially grown Lilly this generation of kids has no idea how rough and brutal the world is away from mom/dad/school sheltering them from every negative experience. Rough housing on the playground, getting into stupid fights for stupid childish reasons, learning how to deal with bullies...All of these things are valuable life experience for children that teach them how to deal with adversity when they grow up. Psychologically we are crippling a whole generation, taking away the growth they need to protect themselves from the real world.

[dolanbaker]

[tinfoil hat] It sounds like the grand master plan to create a totally docile and compliant generation that doesn't question anything that the authorities do or tell them to do as they lack the skills to "stand up!".
Possibly an early step back to serfdom.
[/tinfoil hat]
Children need to learn that the real world is not safe & padded, the other issue is that children need to learn self preservation, without that skill they are more at risk of injury or death as they don't see the danger.

[Outcast_Searcher]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')b]School district stops kids from playing Tag to 'minimize negative physical interactions' among students

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Said 'well-intentioned desire to help protect kids has taken a life of its own'

[Ibon]

There are stories of my childhood growing up in rural Pennsylvania, long summers where my friends and I were left to wander forests and meadows, unsupervised, our own private world full of rough and tumble play and battles, activities that would have horrified our parents who were blissfully ignorant of what we were doing, caught up in their own stories and dramas. We lived a life apart from our parents, no helicopters in sight. As it should be.

[dinopello]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ibon', 'T')here are stories of my childhood growing up in rural Pennsylvania, long summers where my friends and I were left to wander forests and meadows, unsupervised, our own private world full of rough and tumble play and battles, activities that would have horrified our parents who were blissfully ignorant of what we were doing, caught up in their own stories and dramas. We lived a life apart from our parents, no helicopters in sight. As it should be.

[Ibon]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dinopello', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ibon', 'T')here are stories of my childhood growing up in rural Pennsylvania, long summers where my friends and I were left to wander forests and meadows, unsupervised, our own private world full of rough and tumble play and battles, activities that would have horrified our parents who were blissfully ignorant of what we were doing, caught up in their own stories and dramas. We lived a life apart from our parents, no helicopters in sight. As it should be.

[PrestonSturges]

Reading some classic psychology books, psychologists of the '60's were worried that kids time was too structured what with baseball and Boy Scouts. If they could see how kids' time is booked weeks in advance today, they would have thrown up their hands despair.

I heard some college administrator interviewed and they were talking about how they are getting 19 year old freshman who are basically still larva and barely capable of going a week without melting down.

[C8]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', 'I') don't get this thread. Jevon's Paradox is about energy, not dodge ball.