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posted by martyb on Saturday October 29 2016, @01:21PM   Printer-friendly
from the why-not-walk-with-friends? dept.

The state's Department of Transportation issued a poster telling parents to use their own judgment. How refreshing.

While the rest of America is going crazy over keeping kids safe and protected, to the point of near-suffocation, the state of Oregon is a refreshing haven of sanity. The [Oregon] Department of Transportation (ODOT) recently issued a poster addressing the question, “When can my child safely walk or ride to school alone?” Oregon has no legal minimum age requirement for children travelling to school on their own.

Rather than enumerating a list of frightening hypothetical scenarios and urging parents to hover, the ODOT poster encourages parents to use their brains in assessing a child’s readiness for independence.

Oregon has given its residents permission to make their own parenting decisions.


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  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday October 29 2016, @01:49PM

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Saturday October 29 2016, @01:49PM (#420106) Homepage Journal

    Pussy. I walked to school in half the schools I went to and never came to any harm. As did millions of other kids.

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  • (Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday October 29 2016, @03:45PM

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Saturday October 29 2016, @03:45PM (#420131) Homepage

    Seconded. There's that old joke about having to walk to school miles through the snow, I was literally doing that at age 6 when I lived in Flagstaff, Arizona.

  • (Score: 2) by driverless on Sunday October 30 2016, @03:13AM

    by driverless (4770) on Sunday October 30 2016, @03:13AM (#420424)

    I walked to school in half the schools I went to and never came to any harm. As did millions of other kids.

    In the rain and snow. Uphill both ways.