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Originally Posted by marshall
I didn't see it in St Louis but I had a long chat with our district director about the clothespin problem that I've seen happen at some events. Students will take to putting clothespins on other students in some sort of ritual tag game, which is fine if those students know each other. It's when they don't that I have a problem with it. Putting them on strangers is not acceptable and it's going to lead to a more serious problem down the road if nothing is done about it.
It's an issue and I've had more than one student feel harassed because of it. In all cases for my team it has been female students who felt harassed for having the clothespins placed on them by male students from other teams. I'm tired of dealing with it year after year personally and I plan on making a big point of it so it stops. It's unacceptable.
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Originally Posted by Akash Rastogi
Also, I agree with marshall on this clothespin tag game.
1) I don't get it, am I out of touch with the youth already?
2) I do see kids targeting girls a lot and I find it rather annoying knowing that a student of mine may be attracting unwanted physical interaction
3) The fact that they usually sneak up on other students just seems creepy to me.
Mentors - if you see your kids doing this, kindly ask them to stop tagging strangers. If not, I will gladly break their clothespins in front of them.
Thanks,
Akash
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Originally Posted by Michael Corsetto
I had never heard of the game until you posted this, but I did see students throwing clothespins into other teams pits when they weren't around. Seemed odd to me.
-Mike
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It's not just pinning students, but
Rick Snyder's Security(?) got tagged too. Additionally, there's a
weirdly defensive justification over the practice. I never understood it as a student, and I still don't understand it as a mentor. Perhaps there's only a short period before people start putting clothes pins on paper airplanes
