Maybe if they sat in them backwards - Ban Swings Because Everything Is Dangerous

Swings are great! Too bad school administrators aren't. m/r

Schools Ban Swings Because Everything Is Dangerous - Hit & Run : Reason.com

Isn't that what swings are for? Seeing how far we can fly!

Lenore Skenazy|Oct. 7, 2014

Schools in Richland, Washington, are phasing out playground swing sets. According to KEPRTV:

Swings are blamed for the most injuries of any play equipment.

Richland School District already removed them from some campuses and will phase them out of the rest.

"As schools get modernized or renovated or as we're doing work on the playground equipment, we'll take out the swings, it's just really a safety issue, swings have been determined to be the most unsafe of all the playground equipment on a playground," said Richland School District's Steve Aagard.

Before your head explodes, remember that the school district has some very compelling argu... oh wait. It doesn't. Of course some kids get hit by swings and of course there are some injuries—even awful ones—but that does not automatically mean we must ban swings. If it did, we would have to ban all solid food because some kids choke. We would have to ban all bikes because some kids wipe out and hurt themselves. We would have to chop down all of America's trees as well—

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