ANOTHER REASON TO BUBBLE-WRAP KIDS?

Here is the expose:

Students are headed back to school this week and along with the backpacks and new lessons comes recess at playgrounds for young scholars.

Kids love to climb, slide, play and swing and some parents worry about the cleanliness of playground equipment.

So, "Good Morning America" investigated playground cleanliness across the nation by collecting 60 samples at public playgrounds. The samples were tested to determine which playground was the cleanest and which had the most germs.

Of those samples, 59 had evidence of bacteria or mold that could make children sick tests showed.

Once the media-induced panic subsides, does anybody really think this is NEWS? That there are bacteria outside? That where there are children there are also germs? 

Did ABC imagine that the playgrounds would be sterile? Do they think that this is....something new? That generations of kids who somehow survived jungle gyms, tag, and dodgeball didn't also somehow manage to cope with... germs?

 


Posted on Friday, September 07, 2007 (Archive on Friday, September 14, 2007)
Posted by csykes  Contributed by csykes
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