Nanny State Update: New York District Bans Kids From Riding Bikes to School

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Nanny State Update: New York District Bans Kids From Riding Bikes to School

Written By : Warner Todd Huston

America’s kids are too fat. Right? Don’t we hear that all the time? Isn’t it a steady mantra from the left that America is suffering from an “epidemic” of obesity? So, shouldn’t we want to encourage kids to get outdoors? Wouldn’t it be a good thing if kids rode a bicycle to school?

Not to the nanny state in New York it wouldn’t. Seventh-grader Adam Marino and his mother Janette discovered this unusual situation when Adam’s school in Saratoga Springs threatened them with disciplinary action if the pair didn’t stop riding bikes to school.

Why did the school assume it had the power to compel a citizen of New York to stop accompanying her son to school on a bicycle each morning? Apparently the school imagined that it owned her son from the second he stepped out of his door to go to school until he returned home later in the day. The state decided, therefore, that it could determine what conveyance that child is “allowed” to use to get to school each day.

The District also prohibits kids to walk to school, as well.

Of course, it isn’t just the nanny state we are dealing with here. The truth is that lawyers are at fault, too. In some ways this school system is trying to protect itself from any lawsuit that might arise from a kid getting injured on his way to school, we must realize.

On top of that we have the school bus contractors that wouldn’t be too happy if fewer kids needed their busses, too.

But here is the main point and it is one of liberty. What we have here is just another jack-booted government entity (this time the school system) deciding that it somehow had to power to tell free citizens that they were not allowed to ride a bike to school.

This is America. If I want my kid to ride a bike to school, I should have that right to make that decision. Liberty demands that I be afforded the right to permit my child to ride his bike to school if I decide he is responsible enough and it is safe enough to do so.

If I want my kid to get to school on a pogo stick, the state should have no right to tell me other wise. Especially if he also enjoys the activity.

In the end, this report demonstrates some of what has gone wrong with this country. As Shakespeare’s Dick the Butcher said in Henry VI Part III, first “let’s kill all the lawyers.”

aharris

What I found so ironic about this story is that Fox News ran it just after a story about a Texan 5-year-old who killed an 800 lb 'gator when it attacked. He used a well-aimed blast of bird shot from his shotgun.

Now imagine seeing that story and having it chased by this New York story …

It really gives you an idea how our kids are viewed across the country – from 5-year-olds packing heat and defending themselves from 'gators to 7th graders being told they can't walk to school or ride a bike because it's "too dangerous."
GDR

Well, the crooks in DC snuck one over on us – I didnt even hear it talked about on tv or Radio yesterday

This whole Olypmic BS was just a ruse to distract attention from this group of crooks in congress stealing our Liberty!

here is the link to about the only story I could find on what happened:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/…57.html?hpid=top…

This tells us the timeline we have for action:

"The panel is expected to reconvene for a final vote Tuesday or Wednesday, giving congressional budget analysts time to determine whether the bill meets Obama's twin goals of significantly expanding coverage to the uninsured and not increasing the federal budget deficit. Reid then plans to merge the package with a measure approved by the Senate health committee and begin debate before the full Senate shortly after Columbus Day. The House also expects to begin action in mid-October. "

Thhe story indicates that Lincon of AR and Snowe are still opposed to the final package and may vote no in commitee – the two need to be key targets

Bascally, we need to set off a Hurricane of Protest to Congress – email, fax & Call now!
http://networdblog.blogspot.com/ Christopher_Taylor

Guess I'd be an outlaw there, because I'd walk or ride to school and flip off anyone who told me otherwise. I hated the bus.
aharris

I walked to school from the time I was a kindergartner. I rode my bike to junior high, and I drove to high school.
LampofDiogenes

Good for this mother for standing up to such silly nanny-statism!

Serious question to the liberal commenters, here:

Do you view the actions of the school district as appropriate government action? Is this the type of control you would seriously wish us to cede to our government? If so, explain to me what benefit you see from such policies, because I can find none.