SD on 18/10/2006 at 20:56
Tag banned in a school /= tag banned in school
Still I can totally understand and sympathise with their opinion. People will sue for the slightest thing these days, and the school is quite sensible to protect its own back.
R Soul on 18/10/2006 at 21:00
Friendly fire in the war on obesity :nono:
It may only be one school but I suspect that's simply because they were the first to think of it.
Does America (and the UK to some extent) have a shortage of competant defence lawyers? Is there nobody with the sufficient wit and faith in their own common sense to convince a court that "it was an accident"?
SlyFoxx on 18/10/2006 at 21:00
The oldest game in the kid handbook. That's beyond ridiculous. :nono:
TheGreatGodPan on 18/10/2006 at 21:47
Quote Posted by Strontium Dog
Tag banned in
a school /= tag banned in school
I don't think many people would take that subject line to indicate that tag has been banned everywhere including Turkmenistan and Burkina Faso, just as "fight breaks out in school" would not indicate that it was some sort of world-wide mega-school fight, which would be awesome.
Mortal Monkey on 18/10/2006 at 22:50
So... what's the difference?
dvrabel on 18/10/2006 at 23:07
The primary school I went to banned certain forms of tick well over a decade ago. Classics such as "What's the Time Mr. Wolf", "British Bulldog" and "Chain tick" with chains longer than 3 people (the chain had to split into 2 when it reached 4 people).
Renzatic on 18/10/2006 at 23:32
Oh good god. Back when I was in elementary school, we were paddled everyday, playing Red Rover clothsline style, and daring each other to grab electric fences. I can even remember the veritable threat to life and limb that the monkey bars represented...it was like a spectre of death that hung over the playground.
Yet someway, somehow, we all managed to not only survive to old age, but never once gave our parents a reason to embroil the school in petty, pointless lawsuits.
Strangely enough, it's my generation that's either bringing about all these idiotic changes, or suing the schools for hundreds of thousands over minor issues, which in turn forces people to make said idiotic changes.
Renegen on 18/10/2006 at 23:50
Quote:
Recess is "a time when accidents can happen," said Willett Elementary School Principal Gaylene Heppe,
I have a proposition to make, let's put her in a coffin and lock her up there, because anything else in the world is a time when accidents can happen, we care a lot about her security.
