School district bans walking/biking to school
 

What in the heck ? :stare::doh: and they wonder why kids dont get enough excercise.

http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories...storyID=847190

Aaaand that's the 2nd absolute fricking idiotic thing I've heard from that side of the pond today. Come oooon, go for 3! :D

Ok, this is retarded. No other word for it.

technically it means you do not have to go to school.

HunterICX

I am not sure I really got this story right. It appears to me as if students in that town or at that school are prohibited from walking or bike-riding to school. But that is so idiotic an interpretation that I must misunderstand something there!?

Any hints?

No, you got it right. That is exactly how I understood it.

:dead:

Let's hope that fate prevents the authors of this policy from reproducing their toxic genes.

The article reads as 4 miles from school. Unless this is Little House on the Prairie were you walk to school with your pail that contains piece of bread and an apple, four miles would probably constitute a car ride and or a bus ride to school this day in age.

Okay... for the trifecta !

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090930/..._backlash_mich

4 miles on a bike is pretty much nothing, hell a 4 mile walk is nothing, I walk more than that most days. Then again, I was used to walking a lot before the army service and being recon infantry we got to do a lot of it.

Well, one must look at this way....child endangerment where it is not necessary. Really, the days of Leave it to Beaver are over.

This is ridiculous. The precentage of perverts in the population has not increased exponentially since the 50's, only paranoia has.

Id be willing to wager you are wrong on that.

Tell that to the young girl who was snatched in front of her father as she was heading to the school bus...lets see, two kids by her kidnapper. She is 29 years old now. Was 11 when kidnapped. No sir, my two girls do not walk 4 miles to school. And, if you think there is not more pervs you are mistaken. The world is nothing but sexual inuendo. It is pumped in via TV, computer and magazine. Christ, one perv said his cat downloaded child porn. WTF? Paranoia my arse.


Juvenile….. 801,332 cases, up 1.8% over 1996
Police enter most cases in ‘Juvenile’, including some nonfamily
abductions where there is no evidence of foul play.
Endangered .106,332 cases, up 7.8% over 1996
Defined as "missing", and in the company of another person under
circumstances indicating that his/her physical safety is in danger.
Involuntary .33,908 cases, up 8.3% over 1996
Defined as "missing" under circumstances indicating that the
disappearance was not voluntary, i.e., abduction or kidnapping.

Let's build subways from each privbate house to every public building, with no in-between-stations: crime-safe, and even no risk of picking up an infectious flu from stranger.

We should also consider to transport our children in handcuffs in wheel chairs, with a bag over their head. Just to protect them from themselves.

I think you think exactly 180° in the wrong direction, AVG. I mean kids get killed in traffic accidents - let's prohibit driving them around in cars. Let's rent a helicopter to bring them to school instead. Deal?!

Sure bud...the statistic noted above are meaningless. Got kids? If so, we will talk. If not, sit behind your monitor and keep quiet on the subject.

Here ya go bud:

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http://www.registeredoffenderslist.o...on-statistics/



Go ahead bud, allow the kid to walk or ride the bike to school. Give that perv the 4 mile opportunity to do harm to your kid. Hey Skybird, how about joining the real world instead of attempting to just be right all the time.

When I was a kid I walked / rode my bike to school every freakin day for many many years from 1st grade on.

Not once was I molested, nor did the thought and or fear of it ever cross my mind.

You cannot tell me things have not changed.

Throw all the statistics up there you want.

But innoncence has been stolen from children and they will probably never get it back.

The article did not give the impression that they were driving through a gang warzone. nor did the pictures. If you think there is a problem with crime, AVG, then you better start solving this problem, instead of just locking your children away and that way just adapt to symptoms.

BTW, many kids get hurt at school these days, get bullied by gangs and get ripped of, and many kids bring their own knifes and other weapons with them. Should we stop send our kids to school, therefore?

Also, most cases of child abuse take place inside families, with the father sinvolved and the mothers tolerating it. By your logic we therefore should take all children away from theior parents, and then what? Put them into state-run institutions for education where they canot become object to their parent's abuse? Hell, if that would not be a communist utopia!

Let's not get carried away. Total security and safe-guarding against any risks is only possible at the price of total totalitarian control.

You do not need to be in a warzone to get hurt or kidnapped. Kids get swiped in any neighborhood. Sending your kids into a potentually harmful situation is just wrong. I just asked a coworker if he would send his 16 year old daughter on a 4 mile walk to school. He said NO immediately. 4 miles is a long way for a kid to walk to school IMO and as a parents opinion.

And this is ok? This make sending your kid on a 4 mile walk ok? You're more screwed than I thought. Really man, I would not send my 11 or 14 year old on a 4 mile walk. I do not care how good the neighborhood is.


Can I see some statistics on this?

Ok, but being able to prevent one possible bad outcome is what a parent should do and not shrug it off because...well 'if' 'and' or 'buts' could happen anyway.