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Should school children be allowed to bike to school?

Should school children be allowed to bike to school?

  • Absolutely not! It's too unsafe! Schools have a right to forbid it.

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • It depends on the situation

    Votes: 3 8.1%

  • I'm not sure...

    Votes: 1 2.7%

  • Only if accompanied by a parent or guardian.

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • It's up to the parent or guardian to decide.

    Votes: 16 43.2%

  • Seriously? This whole society is turning our kids into fat weinies with all this paranoia!

    Votes: 17 45.9%
  • Total voters
    37
Kali said:
Or as long as some pedophile is not stalking out school kids and decides to grab ya? Sure you will be fine.
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I'm 16, I've been walking around without adults since elementery school. Statistically speaking, I'm safer from violence and sexual assault when by myself or with strangers than with someone that I know
 
DrunkenAsparagus said:
I'm 16, I've been walking around without adults since elementery school. Statistically speaking, I'm safer from violence and sexual assault when by myself or with strangers than with someone that I know
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I find it sad that you have been walking around anywhere without your parents since elementery school:shock:
 
Kali said:
I find it sad that you have been walking around anywhere without your parents since elementery school:shock:
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He didn't say 'everywhere'
 
A New York mother is fighting back against her school district after administrators and officials told her she and her son didn't have the right to bike to school together — and that his safety, even beyond school walls, was out of her hands.

Janette Kaddo Marino said their 3-mile rides to and from school in Saratoga Springs have been met with stiff opposition from officials and even a state trooper who claimed it was unsafe — and illegal — for her 12-year-old son Adam to travel on his own pair of wheels.

Undeterred, she and her seventh-grader have continued cruising to Maple Avenue Middle School this fall in defiance of a 15-year-old school regulation that effectively forces kids to take the bus or hitch a ride in a family car.
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My goodness.
No wonder children and teens are getting fatter and lazier, when are we going to stop wrapping them up in cotton wool. This obsession over danger and pedo's is getting ridiculous.
Children have a higher chance of getting run over than being kidnapped.

From the age of 9 I was allowed to walk back and forth from school and play in the park with neighbours. I remember times when I was out of the house after breakfast and came back with a group of friends in the afternoon.
 
MyOwnDrum said:
He didn't say "anywhere"
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Which is it? First you said everywhere and now you say anywhere. I suggest if you wish to nitpick get it right the first time;)
 
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