Are There Too Many Safety Rules For Kids?

East Valley Tribune ^ | 13 October, 2005 | Hayley Ringle

[HungarianGypsy]

My son was just stunned about the silliness of the school districts in this article.
If you go to the main page of the East Valley Tribune there is a link to a columnist's commentary regarding this article.

[cripplecreek]

Too many safety rules for adults these days. If you buy a bic lighter there's a warning on the side that says it contains a flamable liquid.

[ClearCase_guy]

"We’re looking out for the masses," Jackson said. "I don’t think we can be too safe."

I wonder how he feels about Karl Marx? I'm guessing he wants the masses to be perfectly safe in a dictatorship of the proletariat, ruled over by a vanguard made up of first-grade teachers.

[microgood]

The solution is to put all the trial lawyers in internment camps until we can figure out what to do to them.

[wizardoz]

So I guess a shooting range is out of the question...?

[scooter2]

Why not just post a sign that says,
"NO PLAYING ON THE PLAYGROUND"?

[Straight8]

I'm surprised Scottsdale still has those deathtraps on their playground. </sarc>
How safe is safe enough? Next the kids will have to dress like the Michelin man just to go to the bathroom.

[pa mom]

"Paradise Valley Unified School District requires children to wear hats when they go outdoors"

This isn't out of line--these folks are in the desert. We have a friend who just died at 43 of melanoma so I guess it touches a nerve.

But let them run and play, for goodness sakes.

[wizardoz]

The solution is to put all the trial lawyers in internment camps until we can figure out what to do to them.

Yes... nice, safe ones!!

[Renegade]

I got so fed up I gave my 12 year old the .22 and said go out in the woods and shoot some cans .

[LIConFem]

And here we see little Janey modeling her school's new uniform, designed to protect students from everything from hurtful insults to a meteor strike.

[Mr. Mojo]

must "power walk" or skip at some schools because running is too dangerous.

Yep, I've heard about "no running on the playground" rules for quite some time now. Makes playing basketball quite difficult. (Man, talk about a slow half court offense).

[End Times Sentinel]

At my daughter's elementary school, they told her she couldn't play mumbly peg anymore and even said they'd take her dagger away if she brought it again.  That crazy rule even goes for the sixth graders!

Owl_Eagle

(If what I just wrote makes you sad or angry,

 it was probably sarcasm)

[clamper1797]

What there is ... is way too many wanna be nanny control freaks ... and way too many people who enable them. In my opinion ... if someone is doing something that does not DIRECTLY (that does NOT include the BS argument of rising insurance costs !!!) injure someone else ... LEAVE THEM THE HELL ALONE.

[Mr. Mojo]

Why not just post a sign that says, "NO PLAYING ON THE PLAYGROUND"?

Not far off. Most likely the word "playground" will be jettisoned altogether.

[alice_in_bubbaland]

Yep, too many rules for kids as well as adults. Soon we will have our kids in car seats until they are 18! Here in NJ it's becoming ridiculous! They want to legislate every aspect of our lives, from cradle to grave.

[HungarianGypsy]

My husband heard on the radio a while back about children having to wear helmets to WALK to school. He said if someone ever had put him in a helmet (not his mother. she would know better) he would have intentionally rammed his head into everything to make a point.

[mysterio]

Are There Too Many Safety Rules For Kids?

Yes. And for adults, too. And both political parties are big fans of safety statism. The "punish the class" mentality of safety legislation is one of the big reasons I stopped voting major party.

[cripplecreek]

Seat belts. A really good idea but a really really crappy law (except in the case of children)

[John Jorsett]

Do Not Taunt Happy Fun Ball.

Why don't we just dress them in helmets and body armor, implant GPS receivers, and instruct them not to leave their Panic Rooms in the house?