Kids Forbidden to Bike or Walk to School
Here’s a rich one for our desperate-to-get-the-kids-more-exercise society: In the upstate New York town of Saratoga Springs, children at some schools aren’t allowed to bike or walk to school. In fact, when one student rode to school, with his mother, on a bike path, his bike was confiscated (the rule had never been publicized).
The principal goes on at some length rationalizing the rule. Mostly he’s scared of traffic and stranger abductions. Continue reading »
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Tags: abductions, Axel-Lute, bike safety, depression, exercise, fear, Free-range kids, liability, obesity epidemic, safe routes to school, Saratoga Springs, stranger danger
