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To: cnyndwllr who wrote (212053)	12/18/2012 11:36:40 AM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (1) of 541124

I'm afraid that I agree with epicure here. We might as well equip every school with life rafts because some flood caused 20 deaths. Each school has a different risk profile - the thing that will kill one's kid on the way to school is probably a soccer mom on a cell phone. We used to have a string of 50 mph moms racing down our street after dropping their kid off at a school one street over. Now they speed because they are late to work. Why so many drop offs? Because they are afraid their kid will get abducted, molested, tortured and/or murdered. No, now they will die of obesity or by being run over by one of the protective moms driving a minivan. Crossing guards would save more lives than arming teachers. Or cops with radar guns on streets near schools. How about all those buses that are now rear ended because they have to stop before crossing RR tracks? Does anyone check to make sure that such surprising stops actually make kids (or makes other drivers, for that matter) safer? How about some fricken seat belts and padded bars so their little faces don't bash into steel handles on the back of each seat? Rational people do a Pareto chart of risk and work down the top ten. School gun violence is not what kills and maims students. It is cars probably followed distantly by sports and playground equipment. Both my wife's and my injuries were caused by PE teachers and a lack of understanding of child physiology. Remember "burpies" so called because when you did enough of them they made you throw up? How about deep knee bends, squat and thrusts, rope climbs or parallel bars. All of these are much less safe and less sustainable then teaching yoga which can be practiced into old age.

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