Britain Checking Kiddie Lit Authors for Pedophilia
If your kids’ favorite author was going to be speaking at their school, would you want them to undergo background checks to make sure they’re not a pedophile?
Authors across Britain have gotten their knickers in a twist thanks to a new ruling that requires they all register with a national database and submit to background checks before they can make the rounds to peddle their books and read to the kids. Continue reading »
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Tags: authors, books, child safety, children's books, education, Jeanne Sager, pedophile, reading, schools, sex abuse, stranger danger
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
