I think the problem is mostly the attitude that whenever something happens, someone has to be found responsible and made to pay. I'd consider a certain amount of small injuries - bruises, scrapes and the like - totally normal and part of a child's life. Even breaking an arm or a leg can happen and it's usually neither lethal nor irreparable. Just like other "acts of God" or whatever you call them, they happen through no-one's fault or negligence.
I'd suggest that if someone falls over playing tag, then that's not a catastrophe and shouldn't be grounds for legal action. And although I'm all for supervising playgrounds, unless you let a teacher run after each kid holding a cushion out in case he trips, it doesn't make that much difference to playing tag.
In short, Breaker has a point but I think it's more the legal system that's to blame.
whoa did this spiral out of control. I agree with breaker - It's almost entirely the fault of all the sue-happy faggots making so many things like this so fucked up.
Seriously, people LOOK for reasons to sue. It's fucking stupid.
punkonjunk1024 wrote:whoa did this spiral out of control. I agree with breaker - It's almost entirely the fault of all the sue-happy faggots making so many things like this so fucked up. Seriously, people LOOK for reasons to sue. It's fucking stupid.
Um, no offense, but, um...
Kairyu wrote:Um, no offense, but, um...
And POJ gets owned. Highlight of the minute.
lol hypocrisy is the reason people are sue-crazy, what irony!
Whose really to blame for a traumatic situation occuring during a game of tag? Its all too apparent a scratch or bruise is not sue-worthy, and such an infliction couldn't possibly stand up in a legitimate court of law. The school is apparently worried about broken arms and legs and necks and other such trauma overcoming their students, but if they kept a watchful eye on the kids, or even a few pairs of eyes while they played tag, there wouldn't be any necessity for such bans. Things start getting out of control, kids go to timeout. Thats the way it works, or at least the way it did when I was in elementary school. Kids have no real desire or intention to brutally harm one another, it just happens because they get ahead of themselves, involved in the moment, and stop thinking about what they're doing. Thats the role of supervision, to ensure situations like that do no occur without having to chain the kids down, and if the school had any faith at all in its supervision policy, it would've never inflicted such a ban. The school administration and local zeal for pussiness is the problem, not the sue-crazy parents...or lawyers for that matter.
they should allow contact sports but build schools like they do with the big brother house... just put a zillion cameras everywhere that way the schools can have proof of whether the kid got hurt by there own accord.
Executioner of Deities wrote:Kids have no real desire or intention to brutally harm one another.
AHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAhAh!!111
what the fuck planet are you living on?