<p>I was just curious if any other Academy Appointees are playing Senior Tag?<br>
Our son's school permits it, however the rules are strictly inforced. Week one has ended and my son's team advanced to round two. We have three more weeks of this game until one team of four splits the winnings ($1,600) which amounts to $400 each. I know my son is having a ball but I selfishly hope his team gets knocked out soon. I don't see much of him. Last Thursday he was up and out the door at 5:15 am hiding out in the bushes of one of his opponent's house hoping to tag the guy as he got in his car for school. Oh yes, he was wearing his camo and new boots! :)<br>
All school functions, school property and three area "Wendy's" locations are safe zones. What do any ofther parents think of the game?</p>
<p>Wow. Remember the days when school was a place you went to LEARN stuff?</p>
<p>excuse my ignorance, but what in the heck is senior tag???</p>
<p>LOL!!</p>
<p>Glad I'm not the only one! :D</p>
<p>Ohhhh yessss. I remember senior tag. LOL Its serious business! They recon each other like crazy. Its wild. This is when the seniors all sign up in teams of 4 or 6 to play tag (which is played all over town), they each put 10 bucks in for the grand prize to the team left standing. You go around town & find kids in trees, hiding under cars in Applebees parking lot, lurking behind bushes, basically running around looking over their shoulders for about a week or two. Our kids here play with nerf guns. They may have banned those this year because last year some kids rode around in the backs of pick-up trucks (highly illegal) shooting at anything that moved. The police weren't amused.... My kid's team got up to about 3rd before he was pelted coming out of McDonalds. Talk about mad! They didn't have too many safe zones as the merchants freaked with a bunch of kids with nerf guns hanging out in their parking lots. They came up with some creative ideas if I recall. Most involving getting up at 3 am to go stalk somebody. Momof3 can probably tell you more how they play it in Ohio. Ours is the redneck way. Ya know... with (nerf) guns and trucks! LOL</p>
<p>And then people wonder why so many of them can't read their diplomas when they get graduated to make room for the next bunch. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>Sorry, but crawling around under cars at an Applebees is not only stupid, but dangerous. We have some Darwin Awards in the making, here.</p>
<p>And some people wondered why I only had a select few friends in high school. It wasn't that I was anti-social, it was that most people were complete dolts.</p>
<p>ROTFLMAO!</p>
<p>AMEN, TacticalNuke! AMEN!</p>
<p>LOL!</p>
<p>LOL! C'mon you guys! Where's your sense of adventure? I only rolled over that one kid. It didn't hurt him bad. He had to get a new nerf gun tho.</p>
<p>I doubt Human Speedbump would be an impressive addition to any academy candidate's resume.</p>
<p>Made popular by the movie "Tag: The Assassination Game", Senior Tag is one of those games that is almost guaranteed to have a bad ending or, at least, a couple of near miss (or is that near hit?) incidents. </p>
<p>A couple of our local schools had to ban the game because of high speed car chases, kids choosing to use paintball guns rather than dart or water guns, and one incident of a wild chase through a grocery store that ended with one student using a rather large, hysterically screaming woman as his shield while he eluded his pursurers.</p>
<p>As with many highly physical and aggressive games, Tag is great fun until it goes bad. And with high school seniors competing for big bucks and peer pride, you can almost guarantee it will go bad.</p>
<p>That said, I've got $10 bucks ready to toss into the kitty.</p>
<p>Oh man, I don't even dare mention this to Spider. This is just the sort of thing he'd love. Anything involving crawling in the dirt, shooting, and sniping....he's all over that.</p>
<p>At least it doesn't sound as bad a "fight club" that Jake and some of his friends started a few years back. Fortunately, I believe there isn't one this year.</p>
<p>That sounds like great good fun... and no, I am not a dolt.</p>
<p>Hehe, Philip and Jake need to meet. He was making noises about a fight club a few months ago. Talked him into resuming karate instead. He (Philip/Spider) is going to finish off every non-gray hair I have left.</p>
<p>It must be a rich suburban thing. Sounds too much like real life for kids at inner city public high schools.</p>
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<p>nah- I live in one of those places- and I have never heard of it!</p>
<p>Jake isn't a "rich" kid either. Its from the movie "Fight Club" and they started it in 8th grade after school. Basically ultimate fighting. We had Jake start karate as well and the sparring washis favorite part. Some kids like to beat each other up in play. I know my boys sure love to wrestle and box each other and air soft each other until there are battle marks. Boys are real "winners!!!!"</p>
<p>Shhhh. Don't tell my sons there is such a thing. It would be legal for them to go at it as a real sport. LOL They can't even look at one another without grinning & starting up. Ages 24 & soon to be 19. Wonder if it will ever stop. Now that the Mid has bulked up some this year, brother noticed its getting harder to take him down.</p>
<p>I asked my son about it and he said he had never heard of it either. But "Fight Club" is his all-time favorite movie.</p>
<p>What we do have is a serious case of senioritis. He is so tired of high school and ready to move on with his life. I'm glad we only have one more month to go so he can get senior year behind him and relax for a month before the "real fun" begins.</p>
<p>Mine has major senioritis too!!!! Are you all noticing that the teachers are piling on even more work? Jake says its like more than ever before in
all subject areas. He is extremely happy that prom worked out well and he has a "temporary" girl. He said that if she wasn't interested, then he needed to move on quickly because he doesn't have a lot of time. Oh, my god!</p>