{"id":222,"date":"2006-11-04T02:00:11","date_gmt":"2006-11-04T07:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/oddplanet\/2006\/11\/03\/now-kids-cant-play-tag\/"},"modified":"2010-11-22T23:25:22","modified_gmt":"2010-11-23T04:25:22","slug":"now-kids-cant-play-tag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/oddplanet\/2006\/11\/04\/now-kids-cant-play-tag\/","title":{"rendered":"Now kids can&#8217;t play tag?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--CusAds--><p>Good Grief, what else are they going to ban?<\/p>\n<div class=\"b1291d92551e5c93995fce7897ccfc30\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"float: right; margin:10px 0 10px 10px;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-3375789278566919\";\r\n\/* OddPlanet_300x250_inpost *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"3290981241\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Add two more Massachusetts primary schools to the list of US schools that have been banning the age-old game of tag for fear that children may get hurt and their parents will sue. Officials at McCarthy Elementary School told the local media that the children have been ordered to invent a new no-contact version of the game for safety reasons.<\/p><!--CusAds-->\n<p>&#8220;If the hands come out to touch, then the supervisors ask them to stop,&#8221; McCarthy principal Joan Vodoklys was quoted as saying in the Boston Herald Friday. &#8220;What we require is that children do not touch each other.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Do these kids still have gym class?  If they do that will probably be banned next. Don&#8217;t children need to run around and play to burn off all that extra energy?  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