Most kids, at least in my generation, played some variation of “Cops and Robbers.” Some hid, some chased. The goal was to bring evildoers to justice.

The lawlessness of “Cops and Robbers” was make-believe, of course, but the freedom for kids to play with their friends is becoming illegal in more and more instances. The members of Capitol Hill Cooperative Play School are just the latest gang of supposed evildoers to come under the scrutiny of government regulators.