New Ulm fifth graders busted playing 'rape tag'

Glen Cummings

Honestly, who uses Comic Sans past the age of twelve? What is this world coming to...

Oscars_Wild

Well....You wanted Dodge Ball banned and now this is what You get! How about a game called "Beat the Shit out of PC people!" ? Now I could go for some of that!

AlFons Obsessor Margatroid

Da fuq?

Cuervo

Kids today...we never had 'Rape"tag" back when I was in fifth grade. SOunds like it could be fun.

Skepticsigh

Oh gee, what is happening to this world!?

Oh, right, natural sexual exploration and experimentation that every child goes through as they close in on puberty.

This is the same as "playing doctor", you idiots.

Note: Despite being innocent and natural, this should be probably be discouraged at school/in public.

My2Cents

I just don't remember playing doctor where someone humped me... sorry I see a major difference between kids being curious and playing doctor and people chasing each other being called a rapist and humping parts of people's bodies. Is this how we want kids to understand rape, as a game, bullshit. There is NOTHING innocent about rape and we need to teach our kids that now. Not when they are older and actually possibly rape someone because they in themselves just thought it was a game.

Oscars_Wild

Yo wuz playin' the wrong kinda Doctor!

Buck Twofitty Dickerson

stretching your 2 cents just a bit far on that one

vivian peterson

Children are the victums of Adult Permissiveness. They only copy what some adult taught them threw home, tv, internet, movies etc. It is the adult who molests a child, It is the adult who does the incess, it is the adult who sells them drugs, it is the adult who makes the movies, it is the adult who puts porno on internet. and etc

NoOneUKnow

You need an adult to teach you how to spell.

vivian peterson

Now I see I forgot a word "you" .

vivian peterson

I didn't know I was taking a spelling test. So, you zero into my spelling . If don't like my point say so. I am more interested in how our youth are being treated than how I spell or punctuate. I see my mistake and thank you.

SarahLeigh

How do kids come up with this stuff,when i was that age,i was still playing hide and seek,how do parents raise their children to make it ok for them to think that playing a game like that is ok.Children at the age of 10-11 should still be thinking the opposite sex is gross.

Rob

I am 33 now, but I remember being in second or third grade and playing a game called kiss or kill. It was tag but when you caught them you either kissed them or did a knife stabbing gesture to kill them.

Then I remember playing hot dog with these fold up beds. The bed was the bun and then one girl would go in as the hot dog then me as the topping then another girl as a topping. This was around second grade. It was sexual exploration to get really close to these girls.

I can easily see how a couple years later it could have turned into a game called rape tag. I want to say we have played other games like this that I can't recall, but this is completely normal for any child that isn't living a sheltered life.

Michelle Bachmann

Kids are curious about sex, its kind of a big deal in our society. I remember as a little kid thinking all kind of crazy thoughts about sex and sexuality. I remember thinking a blowjob was when the girl would lightly blow all over your skin. I thought, that sounds awesome. Little did I know it could get even better. My weird thoughts about sex had nothing to do with anything. I think I heard the term blowjob from high school kids on my school bus. My parents were great they raised me right, doesn't mean I didn't catch little glimpses of adult sexuality and get curious. This is just kids being dumb kids. I don't see how people get their panties in a bunch. Talk to kids, answer questions and tell them what they were doing isn't approriate and tell them why honestly.

Donkey Hotay

Young Republicans ?

Rapist

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA this is so funny!

My2Cents

gee let me know if you are ever raped and we will see just how funny it is...

Alex Masters

No one else found it just a little bit amusing that his name/email address is 'b sprung'? I mean.. hello, irony.

Jason Dorweiler

The mental image makes me laugh, plus saying rape tag is funny in itself.

hmmmmph.

Whoa sounds like too many people are getting graphic design degrees,

amercasa

kids will be kids. get over it

Dan Frye

I'm more offended by comic sans than anything, that letter raped my eyes.

Westie Connect

At least the principal did something in this case. Didn't trash the teachers, either. And the superintendent has their backs. The behavior was not age appropriate, but the reaction appears to be on target. In contrast, in Gilbert, AZ, the National Board Certified Teacher who reported bullying in her third grade classroom is getting fired. The principal and the superintendent did nothing to help the victims of bullying that indicated racial, homophobic and sexual harassment motivation. A teacher should not be fired for reporting bullying. Punishing the teacher puts every student at risk! Read the story at www.westernconnections.com.

Westie Connect

Notgonna

So what? As kids, we used to do a lot more than just play hump, back starting in 3rd grade... the only difference here is that it's more known. Sounds like a golden opportunity to EDUCATE the kids on sex, instead of making it a big NO-NO that, unsurprisingly, makes them want to do it more, and behind your back...

Don't punish kids for exploring the very nature of LIFE, but GUIDE them to do what is right!

I'm so sick of today's "parents" sterilizing childhood.

My2Cents

yeah, let's desensitize all the young girls and boys so that if by chance they are raped when they are older, maybe they won't be so traumatized or think anything of it... and yes this comment is dripping with sarcasm

StillStanding

Only one flaw in your reasoning Notgonna, (I'd bet ANYTHING you're male). Rape is not about sex, but the weapon of choice for twisted, sadistic people who get a sexual rush out of doing harm and causing fear in others. Rape, like murder and assault, are serious matters.

Guest

Still, I agree with you, the act of playing Rape at a public school opens a 10-11 yr old belief that the act"playing" part is ok. NotGonna probably doesn't have children that may end up being raped because of childhood development like this recent issue. The change and education is the responsibility of the parents and behavior control in the public system is the responsibility of us all. We are voters and taxpayers, we pave our children's road so they can continue to pave it as they are taught to know better. This is a simple failure of educating our children below the standard of right from wrong.

SabbaDabba

I'm really okay with sexual assault and rape being a big No-No. I

STQ

While that is true, do you think a 10 year old *really* knows what that means? If they do, then they've got bigger problems than a stupid game.

Dbest64

Right on Notgonna!

Gypsyfire

Facebook official policy is no kids on FB under the age of 13 at all. Not even to access it, much less to have their own page.

Good grief!

But then again, this is how a parent found out about all the stupid crap going on at school. Not like the staff working the grounds at break-times should have noticed a bunch of pre-teens running around "HUMPING" each other and yelling "Rapist!".

Wow.

Kevin Wells

I think the fact that the letter is in comic sans is the most depressing part of this story, I must say. Nothing says "rape tag" like comic sans.

Pmdumas

This in a state that elected Jesse Ventura governor and Michelle Bachmann as a congressperson. Not surprising.

Michelle Bachmann

Yeah and we invented rape tag. Minnesota fucking rules. Do you know in dumbass Wisconsin instead of calling it "rape tag" they call it "rape rape goose?" How fucking stupid is that?

Tim

1000 internets for Michelle Bachmann

zzzz

Oh please. It's just a bunch of naive 10- and 11-year-olds. Kids will be kids, even when "being kids" means something adults, in this case, find pretty creepy. I can't believe this story got (continues to get) so much media play. The grown-ups who produce the news should know better.