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In a Victory for Free-Range Parenting, Oregon Encourages Kids to Walk to School Alone

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

Phoenix666 writes:

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: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 29 2016, @09:52PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 29 2016, @09:52PM (#420270)

    That's all it will take - one scraped knee by a kid walking to school, videoed and replayed 24/7 for a few weeks on all the "news" channels for this to be rolled back.

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