Let’s All Be “It” Together
It’s high time we began regulating playground games. Take hopscotch. The very name reeks of anti-Pictish stereotyping.
A Colorado Springs elementary school is banning the game of tag on its playground — after some children complained that they’d been chased or harassed against their will.
Assistant Principal Cindy Fesgen of the Discovery Canyon Campus school said running games will be allowed, as long as students don’t chase each other.
My favorite game as a kid was Red Rover, in which two lines of children stand facing off against each other, their hands linked, and a kid from one line is selected to run toward the other with the intent of breaking through the joined hands. Talk about strategy! Line A picks the puniest kid in Line B, yet Puny Kid can pick the weakest link in Line A. There’s a lot of life lessons in that game, yet Red Rover has been put to sleep. Red Light, Green Light is now a permanent flashing yellow; and Mother May I has become Nanny, Let’s Sort the Recycling.