Banning Tag? Let's corrupt the children even more!

You are right there is no such thing as ADD and ADHD. All it is is the child acts out to get attention. And your also right it is the parents fault. If they do not pay enough attention to their children they will do whatever they can to get your attention.

And banning tag. That is just retarded. What else are kids going to do to relieve some energy and get unbound from class. It is compromising their ability to interact with other kids. Kids are going to grow up being weak and feable and lacking the ability to interact with other people whether it be in the work, home, or everyday living settings.

This is the stupidest thing I've heard of. I think you're right, pretty much everythig kids do during recess can easily be considered dangerous. This is absolutley unreasonable.
Another Willett parent, Celeste D'Elia, said her son feels safer because of the rule. "I've witnessed enough near collisions," she said. How many injuries have you heard of due to tag? This woman is being ridiculous.

I do, however, believe that ADD and bipolar disorder are diseases, but are over-diagnosed.

And just so you know, I am not a comcast member and I had no problem reading the article.

I agree with Deana Walker about ADD and bipolar, and the fact that they are over-diagnosed. Not to mention, drugs is not the answer to them. I've know people that have been on medication their whole lives because they were diagnosed with ADD or ADHD and it's ridiculous. It messes them up even more usually. By the definition that they are using for this, every single person has ADD to an extent, but you have to live your life and take responsibility. I know a 21 year old who was diagnosed with ADD as a kid and has received disability for it. How ridiculous is that! He is still receiving disability, doesn't work, doesn't do anything but get high and get drunk all day. My sister-in-law is a 15-year-old who has been on medication for ADD since she was little, but she can sit and play games for hours. You cannot say that she can't pay attention to one thing for long periods of time. She does not have ADD!

The thing about banning tag is absolutely ludicrous. No wonder kids are acting out in class if they are not even allowed to play at recess. I guess we can just expect more kids to get diagnosed and get placed on medicine. The next generation growing up is going to be quite scary. They'll almost all have grown up taken psychiatric medicine.

The banning tag must come from the arise of increased lawsuits in American, another horrible problem in our society. People trying to take all the money they can without having to work for it. Things are getting way out of hand.

I do think there are sincere disorders of ADD/ADHD. HOWEVER I must clarify that our society is full of weak willed parents who are 1) afraid of their own children and 2) have their hands tied by agencies like CPS and DSS and would simply prefer to medicate over educate. Lord help you if you are a dicsiplinary parent. No dinner for misbehavior can lead to charges of neglect. Heaven forbid you spank a child. Especially in public. The boys in blue will be waiting at the car for you. (AND NO, I'm not talking about abuse here... there's a difference. No kid ever died from a swat on the rump or missing a meal. How many times did we skip them as kids so we could PLAY longer? But send a kid to bed without dinner?? Well, I digress...)Children can't possibly learn proper social behavior in an environment of rampant permissiveness, and wussed out parents. It's become far too EASY and far too CONVENIENT to medicate our children rather than deal with them and take responsibility for their proper upbringing. The problem is not medication and disorder. The problem is poor to non-existent parenting where we allow strangers and the gov't to raise or kids. Welcome to the machine...

I'm not that great with words, but you have hit the nail on the head tlisley. I do think there are severe problems out there, but parenting is essential in all of this. My husband and I tried to take priveleges away from his sister when she acted up around us, and she rarely does that anymore. But her mother refuses to do anything to punish her and uses ADD as an excuse as to her acting that way. She still needs punished though or she's going to end up like the 21-year-old who still lives with his dad and drinks alcohol and smokes cigarettes and pot all day long. They might have problems, but the parents need to step in there and make them grow. For the severe cases though, which do exist, they probably do need medication. But medication is used way too often in kids being kids.

Re: banning tag - AMEN. Que ridiculo.

let's ban wrestling, football, basketball, soccer, four square, hide and seek and any other contact sport while we're at it because someone might get hurt.

The Schools are way to paranoid. When, and I challenge anyone to prove me wrong, have you EVER heard about someone sueing a public school because their kid got a bruise or bump or scrape, or even minor cuts from playing a game at recess? I mean, when I was in highschool i was constantly getting injuries from playing sports i was FORCED to play and I never even thought about suing the school or anyone else becase it's not like any one was purposely trying to attack me or put me in danger. The fact of the matter is, sometimes we just don't see the ball coming and get a good smack out of it. I've jammed my fingers, gotten bruises, cuts, etc. just from playing sports at P.E. Accidents happen. And kids are more proned to accidents, that's just a fact. But that's also why there are campus nurses and why they force parents to fill out forms with important information incase their kid ever needed medical attention. But I've never seen a kid with a major injury from playing recess games. Recess games are generally more safe than the organized ones because they're friendly noncompetitive games and usually there's more than one adult out there watching them. People need to just stop being paranoid because kids need to go out and play to be healthy. Also, they need to be not so clean all the time so that they can be exposed to certain germs that help strengthen their immune system. You can't control everything, and by banning playground games like that you might be doing more damage in the long run because a lot of schools don't have too much funding to buy too many games and if kids cant just go run and push each other a little they might end up just sitting and vegetating on a bench. Gah, sometimes by trying to be "safe" they're are just being selfish, inconsiderate, and totally totally backwards.

getting hurt is not a mistake...it is an accident. have you heard of the term "hey y'all watch this", getting hurt is learning from our mistakes. it's the fun way. but banning tag it does sound totally stupid but you have to look at it from the schools point. though i don't agree with the schools, tag is fun. i stil play tag with my young neices and nephews. but the schools are trying to protect themselves not "really" the children. there are way to many people these days that are sue happy and will sue you for just about anything. There was a elem. school in Mississippi about 4 years ago, at recess the kids were playing tag. a boy was it and chasing everybody around. a girl that he wasn't even chaseing but was running had fell and broke two fingers. broke two fingers, not even on the hand she wrote with... but anyway. her parents sued the school. for endangering their child. these people sued and won 1.5 million dollars. for two freaking broken fingers. it is not really the schools haveing to or some wanting to have to do things like this. it's all the parents... "i don't want my baby getting hurt". shit like them get hurt to a point. it makes them strong.