Federal Law Now Says Kids Can Walk To School Alone (fastcoexist.com)

An anonymous reader writes: There's some good news for "free-range" parents and fans of children being allowed to walk places on their own. A recently approved federal education law will allow students to take alternative forms of transportation to and from school with parental permission. Fastcoexist reports: "Relax, parents. Now you can allow your kids to walk, ride a bike, or take a bus to school, without you or your children getting arrested. The recently-signed Every Student Succeeds Act contains a section (858) that protects the rights of kids to walk or go out alone. The act was sponsored by Utah senator Mike Lee, who is a supporter of the Free Range Kids movement, and provides some hope for parents who feel that their kids should be allowed some autonomy to get by own their own." One can only hope that children will be allowed to go to the park on their own soon as well.

Comments

Re:This was _outlawed_ in the USA?

[DarkOx]

No letting your kids walk to school was never outlawed, but became risky because we have to many damned laws.

Certain people (SJW types who take jobs doing unproductive 'social work') decided to allowing an unsupervised child to work a few blocks to a park or school themselves might qualify as child endangerment.

Basically this new law stipulates that doing so cannot possible meet that definition. So no other part of our massively over-sized an invasive government can take your kids away because you thought it was perfectly reasonable for your 9 year old to walk directly to and from school.