Posted on 01/18/2013 1:02:36 PM PST by Hojczyk
Hey, I’m a middle aged white male and I drive a (gasp) WHITE VAN. I can’t drive the slow school zone speed limits or I’ll have parents taking pictures of me with their phones and expect the SWAT team to stop me within a few blocks.
Last weekend my 11 year old son asked to go sledding. We headed off to the local university to sled on a good hill. A “rent a cop” showed up and informed us there was “NO sledding anywhere on campus. The rule is listed in the Faculty Staff Handbook and the Student Handbook due to LIABILITY concerns.” I am so sick of people trying to legislate the fun out of everything in life.
You say the rule is listed in the faculty and student handbooks? I assume this is an open campus, so unless your kid is faculty or a student, how is the rent-a-cop gonna stop you?
Parents are allowing their kids to do less and less activities that involve risk. In the old days, a kid breaking his arm was no big deal. A kid getting in a fight was no big deal. These days, its a crisis.
Yes it's a crisis nowadays as parents have experienced lawsuits (filed against/to), draconian Child Services regulations, a severe coarsening on our culture, the inherent dangers of today's society, peer pressure to push the envelope...etc.
Frankly, are American parents any better?. I doubt it. And as stupid as these parents are, it still means that 80% are sensible parents.
If we arent what we once were, then frankly neither are you. We arent the UK of 1815, 1914 or 1940, but then you lot arent the USA of 1776, 1917 or 1941 either.
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