Reply #7: The ACA's (ass-covering administrators) strike again

[Lydia Leftcoast]

You cannot guarantee safety 100%. Even if you just have a bare playground with no equipment on it, a child could still be seriously injured or even killed if knocked to the ground by another child.

99.9% of children have survived encounters with playground equipment just fine.

Today's parents seem to want to eliminate all risks from their children's lives, even the risks that are so insignificant as to be once in a decade events. Maybe they should just wrap children in cotton batting and make them play in rubber rooms, rubber rooms with pillows on the walls. Thick gloves on the children's hands so they don't hit or scratch one another. Masks over their faces so that one child with a cold doesn't spread the illness to the whole group.

I would be willing to bet that fewer children are killed or even injured by playground equipment each year than are injured or killed riding in cars with their own parents.