On the playground of a northern Colorado Springs elementary school, tag is not "it."

Texan wrote:
On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 19:30:13 -0400, Bob LeChevalier
wrote:

This seems like a lovely teachable moment on how to get along like decent
people.

That requires enough adult supervision to be able to catch and process
such moments while keeping adequate supervision on the rest of the
playground, knowing that any accident or injury is a potential
multimillion dollar lawsuit.


I thought this was solved many years ago. In my ancient day if there
was a conflict in the school yard a teacher immediatly took the
offenders to the prinipals office, a decision was made and justice was
dealt out.

Around here, that would not be possible. The teacher cannot leave the
kids unattended on the playground to take someone to the office (if
indeed it is a teacher doing the supervising and not a parental
volunteer). At some schools here, there is sometimes no outdoor
recess because there are insufficient adults free to monitor the
playground as well as the lunchroom.

If the games got to rough, games, or even recess could be eliminated.
That was up to the authoritys to rule.

The authorities get sued whether the games "get too rough" or not.
All it takes is a kid getting hurt who has a litigous parent. And
kids can get hurt even when the games are not particularly rough.

lojbab