Playing Tag Banned: America's Descent Continues

A Colorado Springs school has banned the game of tag from it's playground...yes the game of tag. Are you freakin' kidding me? The game of tag? This is just another example of how each generation of kids will become bigger and bigger pussies. No dodge ball, no kick ball, no merry-go-round ... they might as well ban fun. Right alongside this article they should post the articles about the obesity rate in American kids continuing it's rise because this is exactly why kids will sit in their house and watch tv and play video games...because they aren't allowed to have any fun if it might hurt someone else's feelings. Not to mention in this world of political correctness any activity children are involved in, no one can win and no one can lose for fear of hurting someone's feelings.

When I was a kid there were bullies you tried to avoid but confrontation with them was inevitable and what would happen? You would get beat up or pushed around or shoved into the girl's locker room or whatever ... not like it, but take the licking like a man and go home...you can't win every battle. Heck, we were allowed to play tackle (YES! TACKLE and of course with no pads you wusses) football on the playground. I distinctly remember coming in after recess more than once with scrapes, cuts and blood oozing out of various parts of your body after a great game of tackle football with my classmates. If you were bleeding bad enough you would be allowed to get a band-aid prior to class starting but you better hustle up or you'd have to stay after school. I would think that even touch football might be too aggressive for the sheltered youth of today.

Today, bullies are expelled, tag is banned and kids bring a gun to school and go on a rampage because they were made fun of. I shudder to think how spineless and helpless future Americans are going to be because they have been coddled their entire life and sheltered from anything that is even remotely objective.