Kids banned from walking/biking to school?, page 1

SARATOGA SPRINGS -- Seventh-grader Adam Marino is getting a firsthand lesson in civil disobedience.


The 12-year-old and his mother, Janette Kaddo Marino, are defying Saratoga Springs school policy by biking to Maple Avenue Middle School on Route 9. The Jackson Street residents pedal more than four miles together each way to the middle school on nice days despite being told not to by school officials and police.

When the pair stuck with their plan, they were met by school administrators and a state trooper, who emphasized that biking was prohibited, Kaddo Marino said.
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Awesome. I've never heard of such a thing before. Granted I havent been in elementary school for 20 years now. We all walked, biked, whatever to school. Up until we got out licenses, jobs and cars anyway.

If the parents are cool with it what business does anyone else have overriding the parents?

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THEY ARE AMERICANS< they are supposed to drive everywhere, driving makes money for the fuel fatcats, oh no no no noo , you cannot exercise or get fit by cycling anywhere thats not allowed in the USSA, oops I mean the USA, oops I mean the not so United States of AMERIKA.

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I don't think it's an evil conspiracy; more like a knee jerk reaction to fears for children's safety.

Still how children get to school is the parents responsibility and as long as they get there not schools business.

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Did you see the huge shoulder the kids have to ride on on the way to school? I wish I had such luxurious shoulders when riding around.

Sure, not all kids will be coming from that direction on that road but it's a funny shot nonetheless when considering childrens safety.

I've been on public school bus rides that were more like mobile tribal conflict battles with lots of kicking, punching, a rape and a couple of stabbings.

I'd take a wrong-way commute by bicycle blind down an expressway over those buses any day.

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Exactly, that wide shoulder is much bigger then any place around here. I wish government agencies would quit with the knee jerk reactions which of course, are for our own good.

Kudos the those two for taking a stand and doing what they feel is right.

Where I live started to do something similar.

I was turned over to DHS/Children Protective Services for Criminal Neglect and Child Abuse for allowing my 12 year old daughter to ride Public Transportation to school. I have a thread here on ATS of my harrowing ordeal Enroll Your Child in Public School = Lose Parental Rights.

Schools should not be concerned with what goes on outside of the classroom, off school grounds. Period! That is none of their business. Schools are not surrogate parents and should stop acting as such!

This desire to over-protect our children has gone too far. A 12 year old child is considered mature and responsible enough to be left home alone, and even care for an infant without supervision in the United States, but they aren't considered mature and responsible enough to bicycle to school supervised?

It would be one thing if this were a high crime area. I would have reservations about any parent who allowed their 12 year old child to bicycle to school unsupervised in downtown Detroit or Chicago. However, bicycling supervised in a low crime town of 26,000 certainly isn't wrong in any way, shape, or form.

To me, it sounds like School Officials and the Police are the ones that need to grow up and get a grip on reality.

www.timesunion.com...

Was just about to post this
amazing!!!!

Surreal in fact

I read this and was speechless.

I hope the parents don't take this sitting down!

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