Comments on: “Next to go: duck-duck-goose”

By: nofixedabode

nofixedabode — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 20:44:23 +0000

Didn’t we already ban “musical chairs”? On the premise that any game declaring a winner makes victims of everyone else? (Also: discriminatory toward the hearing impaired.) (Ok, “hearing impaired is offensive. What’s today’s PC euphemism?)

By: Deoxy

Deoxy — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 11:53:24 +0000

“More likely kids will get the message that they’ve been receiving for generations: grown-ups are jerks.”

Sad, but true.

But SOME kids will get the “we live in fear” message – I’ve already had to deal with some, for whom every little thing is SCARY! It’s very, very sad.

By: Seth

Seth — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 18:25:20 +0000

I believe the banning of tag and other children's playground games is silly, but I also think that such proposals should discouraged with a sense of perspective.

Banning tag will not give kids the message that "we live in fear". More likely kids will get the message that they've been receiving for generations: grown-ups are jerks.

Teacher bans on playground games will not end them anymore than they will end children's spirit of life and adventure - something that I, at least, believe has always proven sturdier than the paddle or playground rules.