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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: 4, Interesting) by SomeGuy on Saturday October 29 2016, @02:46PM

    by SomeGuy (5632) on Saturday October 29 2016, @02:46PM (#420117)

    There was a story on the TV news recently about a blind Georgia mother who could not walk with her kids to school. She lived too close for the bus to pick up the children, but yet the children were not allowed to walk to school by themselves. Which literally meant they were not allowed to attend school.

    Which, of course, is completely and totally insane. The entire point of buses not picking up children that close is that they can walk. If they aren't permitted to walk by themselves, then the damn buses need to pick them up. Even if they live right next door to the school.

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