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Inability to function as human beings?

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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	The way I see it, the actions of a handful of schools isn't enough to claim the entire nation is going down the toilet. When I was a teenager (and this was way back in the early 90s!), the big issue was book banning. A few schools banned controversial books (by dangerous authors such as Judy Blume and Mark Twain) from school libraries to avoid potential law-suits. It's the same situation with banning tag - these few schools are run by administrators who are afraid of lawsuit-happy parents, and they react irrationally. It's only a few schools, and it will change and fade. And honestly, if more parents showed up for PTA meetings, there might be more of a moderate voice in school decisions. As for whether people are more careful or scared now - I think people are a lot more aware of things like sexual predators and kidnappers now. Unfortunately, "scare" programming on TV makes it look like every other person in your neighborhood is trolling MySpace for kids to take advantage of. I think that makes them scared to let their kids play out in the neighborhood, like many of us did as kids. But just being around my sisters and their five kids, they certainly aren't afraid to let them play in the yard without direct adult supervision, even though my 4-year-old nephew is such a danger-seeker that I've started calling him "stunt-kid." Besides, they know that my 9-year-old niece, nicknamed "The Informer," will tell immediately if one of the other kids does something wrong or stupid. :) Loading...
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