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But are you doubting that if Lil Johnny got abducted riding his bike home from school that the parents wouldn't file suit against the school, even if the parents were the ones that pushed for the bike ride?

There's legal ways around this- hold harmless agreements come to mind. Believe it or not this was common practice before the internet came along and created the scary world we live in.

How did schools function before the age of helicoptor parents?

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They also don't want Lil Johnny to park his bike on campus then accidentally hang himself on a swing set rope when nobody even knows he's there.

Time to bring down the dangerous swings I guess.

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The school has to have a chain of custody for the children in order to be accountable.

For the time he is on school property, I agree. Once he leaves school (with a parents permission) he is no longer their concern.

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Posted by TigerDeacon

West Monroe, LA

Member since Sep 2003

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Posted on 8/20/19 at 3:15 pm to NYNolaguy1

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Once he leaves school (with a parents permission) he is no longer their concern.

Too bad it doesn't work that way.

Too many crazy parents and too many lawsuits. Now the schools have the be run by addressing the lowest common denominator, and not in a mathematical sense. They have to eliminate as many ways they can possibly get sued or harassed by crazy parents. Imagine if that 7 year old got hit by a car . . . you probably wouldn't just have the parents suing, but probably also the driver who hit the kid claiming the school's negligence in letting a 7 year old out where he could get on the road.

If you want to blame someone, blame society not the schools.

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