Protecting the Youth of America...From Tag

The nanny state strikes at recess (from Special Report):

The latest effort to protect school children from the unchecked violence of life comes in Massachusetts city of Attleboro — and in the form of a ban on — the game of tag.

The Associated Press reports tag — along with touch football and any other unsupervised chase game — has been banned from recess at Willett Elementary School. The principal there says that's because recess is "a time when accidents can happen." Administrators also apparently are afraid of being held liable if a child is injured. Tag now goes the way of dodgeball — which several schools in Attleboro banned years ago — saying it was exclusionary and dangerous.

Pansies. If you didn't go to the emergency room at least three times during your youth because of playground injuries, you didn't have much of a childhood.