Micromanaging the Playground

They banned playing Tag? They banned TAG?!!. And not just Tag:

Officials at an elementary school south of Boston have banned kids from playing tag, touch football and any other unsupervised chase game during recess for fear they'll get hurt and hold the school liable.

Liable? I'd be tempted to sue the school for preventing my kids from running around. You want to ban something from the school? Ban soda. Ban trans fat. But running? Outrageous.

UPDATE: The LA Times is running a good opinion piece on this.