School district bans walking/biking to school

[SteamWake]

At the start of school in September, Kaddo Marino thought that she had a nonverbal agreement with school officials to allow her son to ride his bike until a new policy was resolved. But on the night before classes started, school authorities called parents to say that walking and biking to school would not be tolerated.

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

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

[Dowly]

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

[antikristuseke]

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

[HunterICX]

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

HunterICX

[Skybird]

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?

[antikristuseke]

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

[Skybird]

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

[AVGWarhawk]

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.

[SteamWake]

Originally Posted by Dowly

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

Okay... for the trifecta !

IRVING TOWNSHIP, Mich. – Each day before the school bus comes to pick up the neighborhood's children, Lisa Snyder did a favor for three of her fellow moms, welcoming their children into her home for about an hour before they left for school.
Regulators who oversee child care, however, don't see it as charity. Days after the start of the new school year, Snyder received a letter from the Michigan Department of Human Services warning her that if she continued, she'd be violating a law aimed at the operators of unlicensed day care centers.

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

[antikristuseke]

Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

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.

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.

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by antikristuseke

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.

[antikristuseke]

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

[SteamWake]

Originally Posted by antikristuseke

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.

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by antikristuseke

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

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.

Missing Children Cases
are placed in three Primary Categories by the National Crime Information Center (NCIC)

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.

[Skybird]

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?!