Chicago Schools Contemplate Recess After Nearly 30 Years Without It

[tunatartare]

Originally Posted by Drolefille

Usually tag isn't banned because it's violent, it's because it is exclusionary. The slowest kid is always "it"

Is that why you were always "it?"

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by KLPDaisy

Is that why you were always "it?"

Oh Snap.

I was the girl who played basketball and football with the boys. We played touch football on asphalt using parking lot lines as yard lines. (2 lines= 10 yards). One time they somehow let us outside when it was icy and we played ice football, on asphalt. I'm not sure how we're not all dead.

I wasn't thinking of Freeze Tag though, I was thinking of regular tag aka "it" as someone else put it. Freeze tag isn't nearly as exclusionary.

Our playground was as above, a parking lot. There weren't other things to do besides tag or four square when you're little and football/basketball when you're older. They did paint a world map on part of the it for a few years, but that's where the girls sat and talked all recess long. Stupid girls :P

[tunatartare]

Originally Posted by Drolefille

They did paint a world map on part of the it for a few years, but that's where the girls sat and talked all recess long. Stupid girls :P

I would've been one of those girls. In Middle School, when my school had 3 fields, I was the one playing ultimate frisbee with all of the boys.

[mccoyred]

Most of what I have been thinking has been said. However, I did want to add that this 'ban' is yet another sign of this instant gratification society where the individual is not held accountable for their actions.

My 6th grader came home from school yesterday and told me that the principal said that they are banning hooded shirts! Good grief, Charlie Brown.

[DSTCHAOS]

Originally Posted by mccoyred

My 6th grader came home from school yesterday and told me that the principal said that they are banning hooded shirts! Good grief, Charlie Brown.

Why?

If it's because kids are wearing the hoods during school hours...uh...just tell them to...take...off...the...hood. Just like many schools don't allow students to wear hats inside the buildings. Geesh.

[CrimsonTide4]

Originally Posted by mccoyred

My 6th grader came home from school yesterday and told me that the principal said that they are banning hooded shirts! Good grief, Charlie Brown.

That's stupid!!! As cold as it gets a hooded shirt is great for cold weather layering.

[AlphaFrog]

Originally Posted by Drolefille

I wasn't thinking of Freeze Tag though, I was thinking of regular tag aka "it" as someone else put it. Freeze tag isn't nearly as exclusionary.

Actually, Freeze tag can be MORE exclusionary...I remember that there was always one or two kids that no one would un-freeze when they were frozen...

[mulattogyrl]

Originally Posted by Drolefille

We should wrap children in bubblewrap and pillows and make them sit still at all times...

damn you LOL

Originally Posted by AlphaFrog

Actually, Freeze tag can be MORE exclusionary...I remember that there was always one or two kids that no one would un-freeze when they were frozen...

I don't know why but this made me laugh too. I'll come un-freeze you, LMAO.

[CrimsonTide4]

Originally Posted by Drolefille

I wasn't thinking of Freeze Tag though, I was thinking of regular tag aka "it" as someone else put it. Freeze tag isn't nearly as exclusionary.

So I'm guessing that "it" was just you're "it" until you tag someone else who becomes "it" until they tag someone else? If so, played that as well.

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by AlphaFrog

Actually, Freeze tag can be MORE exclusionary...I remember that there was always one or two kids that no one would un-freeze when they were frozen...

True, but there wasn't the "slow kid" issue.... There's no winning really. How did everyone unfreeze in freeze tag? For us it was diving under the legs... on asphalt of course.

Originally Posted by CrimsonTide4

So I'm guessing that "it" was just you're "it" until you tag someone else who becomes "it" until they tag someone else? If so, played that as well.

Yep. We just called it tag.