Tag this

Hey, it’s about time.

Thank God some courageous principal has stepped forward and stopped a brutal “sport” that takes place on playgrounds all across America.

Yes, I am talking about the game of tag.

Robyn Hooker, principal of Kent Gardens Elementary School in Virginia, told her kids no more tag during recess.

Hooker was disgusted that all that chasing and yelling had become nothing more than a game "of intense aggression."

… The above words are sarcastic, of course.

What I really think is, “Aaarrrggghhh, a politically correct wimp strikes again! And worst of all, this weenie wields power!”

The prissy principal said the “nouveau tag” the kids were playing involved things like grabbing people not in the game and bumping them to the ground.

OK, then deal with that aspect of the game or those kids.

If kids talk in the cafeteria, do you ban eating?

At another school in Fairfax County, Va., its office of risk management (I don’t think my old school had one of them) bans … dodge ball and tug-of-war.

If this kind of thing takes hold, we will turn our kids into a bunch of geeks and sissies. They don’t get enough — or any — exercise as it is, so now we are going to clamp down on recess?

One disgusted parent asked, “Will we eliminate ‘duck duck goose’ because kids are being touched?"

Shhh. Don’t give ’em any ideas.