Via Slashdot, it seems an elementary school near Boston is only the most recent to ban tag and other “contact” games. Money quote:

Another Willett parent, Celeste D’Elia, said her son feels safer because of the rule. “I’ve witnessed enough near collisions,” she said.

Near. Collisions. I couldn’t have made that one up. Our fearless leader, Freedom’s Fonz, wrote about the quest to child-proof the world way back in nineteen-dickety-seven, while I considered the potential political fallout of being raised millennial in ‘aught-three.