Massachusetts School Bans The Game of Tag

It seems a Massachusetts school is banning the game of tag amid fears of injuries. The school is also banning touch football and other contact sports too. If school kids are getting fat and the school is not going to let them play tag and other contact sports then how are the kids going to lose weight? Tag is a good cardiovascular game especially if the kid you are trying to tag is a fast runner. It seems this is not the first school to ban tag. A Santa Monica elementary school in 2002 banned tag for similar reasons.

In all fairness, you can get hurt playing touch football. According to the Better Health web site the common injuries for touch football are lower leg, hand (the football players are touching each other way too hard. Maybe they ought to switch to flag football.), hamstring, head (what are the players doing? hitting each other upside the head? This is a rough game!), and impact injures such as from falling over or colliding with another player. Talking about colliding with another player, in Klein Oak High School in Texas, two students got hurt by colliding together when they were playing touch football during P.E. Heck, students can collide together when going to class especially if one of the students is late for class.

Let's face it any activity can get a person hurt. According to the same Better Health web site you can even get injures while dancing. The common injures are sprains and strains, stress fractures in the bones, tendonitis, blisters on the toes and feet if a dancer is wearing ill-fitted shoes, toenail injuries, and impact injures such as bruises, caused by falling over or colliding with another player (dancing can be so rough!).

Then there is that dangerous sport of bowling. A fellow bowler or a spectator can get hurt if another bowler accidently releases the ball during the back swing. Bowling balls are heavy. It can knock somebody out that is behind the bowler. (Okay, I'm joking here, but who knows it could happen.) Here is a question: If that freak accident does happen should the bowler yell "fore!". Just a thought.