School district bans walking/biking to school

SteamWake · 09-30-09, 10:45 AM

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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 · 09-30-09, 10:48 AM

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 · 09-30-09, 10:52 AM

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

HunterICX · 09-30-09, 10:53 AM

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

HunterICX

Skybird · 09-30-09, 11:06 AM

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 · 09-30-09, 11:08 AM

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

Skybird · 09-30-09, 11:11 AM

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

SteamWake · 09-30-09, 11:29 AM

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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 !

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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

09-30-09, 10:53 AM	#4
HunterICX Rear Admiral Join Date: May 2006 Location: Malaga, España Posts: 10,750 Downloads: 8 Uploads: 0	technically it means you do not have to go to school. HunterICX __________________

09-30-09, 11:06 AM	#5
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,696 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	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? __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert.

09-30-09, 11:11 AM	#7
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,696 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	Let's hope that fate prevents the authors of this policy from reproducing their toxic genes. __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert.

09-30-09, 10:48 AM	#2
Dowly Lucky Jack Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Finland Posts: 25,054 Downloads: 32 Uploads: 0	Aaaand that's the 2nd absolute fricking idiotic thing I've heard from that side of the pond today. Come oooon, go for 3!

09-30-09, 10:52 AM	#3
antikristuseke Silent Hunter Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Estland Posts: 4,330 Downloads: 3 Uploads: 0	Ok, this is retarded. No other word for it.

09-30-09, 11:08 AM	#6
antikristuseke Silent Hunter Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Estland Posts: 4,330 Downloads: 3 Uploads: 0	No, you got it right. That is exactly how I understood it.