We know that kids need recess. They need time to run around in order to learn better in school, and it need to be “free-play,” not just the structured exercise they get in gym class. They just need to be kids. It’s not that hard to understand, right? Apparently it is for one elementary school in Horry County South Carolina, which has banned tag. Yes, tag.

My Horry News reported that Roxanne Altman’s third grader came home after her first day of school and told her mom her favorite recess game had been banned. Why? Barbara Ammons, the new principal at Seaside Elementary, the school in question, says: