Officials at an elementary school south of Boston have banned kids from
playing tag, touch football and any other unsupervised chase game during recess
for fear they'll get hurt and hold the school liable.
Banning dodgeball is bad enough, but TAG? What are kids supposed to do, just stand around outside (but only in the shade because of the sun's deadly cancer rays)?
When I was a kid, I got shoved on the bus by another kid, pushing a sharpened pencil through my bookbag and into my thumb. A piece of carbon (thankfully, it's not really lead) is still lodged in it, which you can sometimes still see through the skin. Perhaps we should ban pencils. Or flimsy bookbags. Or schoolbuses. Or kids.
Just please let me keep my thumbs.
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