Preventing children from learning and growing? Sounds like our government!

In many towns across the United States, many PTAs have gathered together to discuss a new terror that has been around for ages, but has recently been discovered as harmful. You may thin I am referring to bullying in schools or perhaps some other school-related violence issues. Not quite, the threatening issue facing our schools today is.... TAG. Yes, the friendly childhood game, where one child is "it" and chases the other children participating in the game and attempts to touch another, forcing that child to assume the role of "it." Sounds harmless, doesn't it? According to the parents of students from Utah to Maryland, this is a "dangerous game with awful consequences." The running in schoolyards often leads to tripping and injuries that vary from minor cuts to broken bones. Also, the psychological effects of being called"it" by your peers is alienating and does not help children build their esteem. It is hard to believe that some parents are so concerned that they have convinced their districts to outlaw the playing of this game along with others (i.e. dodgeball.)
Along the same lines of subjects that are taboo in schools was the teaching of Darwinism in Tennessee. In 1925, during the Scopes "Monkey" Trial, John T. Scopes, a substitute biology teacher taught to his students from a textbook a theory that did not support the idea of Divine Creation. He was arrested and charged by the state of Tennessee with defiance of the Butler Act. His non-conventional teaching of something that may harm the children to hear brought him a guilty verdict along with an one hundred dollar fine. It just goes to show that when dealing with our country's schools one must never put children in the way of harm. And if you happen to do so, expect to be sued.