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<blockquote data-quote="Lammie" data-source="post: 652435" data-attributes="member: 3306"><p>Schools are afraid of any liability issues. My older son broke his arm on a piece of school playground equipment but I didn't expect the school to remove it because of that. I just expected him to be more careful. </p><p></p><p>I blame a lot of this on parents. They are so afraid that their kids are going to get hurt that they want to remove all traces of things that might present any danger, along with making sure that every little girl gets to be a cheerleader and that every kid gets a trophy no matter how badly their team lost. </p><p></p><p>I can remember the school playground when I was a kid. Swings with wooden seats so that you could stand on them, monkey bars! Real monkey bars made of metal! Big, tall metal slides with no sides on them. A baseball diamond where teachers would get with kids and actually play games, real trees that we could climb and dirt, wonderful dirt, that crusted on our sweaty, happy selves cause we played so hard. If you skinned your knee, you went on with it. </p><p></p><p>I don't honestly recall anyone having an allergic reaction or breaking a bone. The only broken bone I can remember was on a kid who was in a wheelchair because he had brittle bones and he was popping wheelies and broke his arm.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lammie, post: 652435, member: 3306"] Schools are afraid of any liability issues. My older son broke his arm on a piece of school playground equipment but I didn't expect the school to remove it because of that. I just expected him to be more careful. I blame a lot of this on parents. They are so afraid that their kids are going to get hurt that they want to remove all traces of things that might present any danger, along with making sure that every little girl gets to be a cheerleader and that every kid gets a trophy no matter how badly their team lost. I can remember the school playground when I was a kid. Swings with wooden seats so that you could stand on them, monkey bars! Real monkey bars made of metal! Big, tall metal slides with no sides on them. A baseball diamond where teachers would get with kids and actually play games, real trees that we could climb and dirt, wonderful dirt, that crusted on our sweaty, happy selves cause we played so hard. If you skinned your knee, you went on with it. I don't honestly recall anyone having an allergic reaction or breaking a bone. The only broken bone I can remember was on a kid who was in a wheelchair because he had brittle bones and he was popping wheelies and broke his arm. [/QUOTE]
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