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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Director here-agree with those who say that unless the children are from economically deprived backgrounds, there is no reason to take them on metro. There are so many things that can go wrong.  Why take the chance.  Metro ride is a perfect thing for parents/grandparents to do with 1 kid. [/quote]

No there really aren't that many things that can go wrong - certainly no more things that can go wrong than on any other errand that people regularly do.

WMATA is extraordinarily safe - I think 12 fatalities in 43 years and about the same number of injuries on a system that handles like 43 million trips a year?

Probably 2-3 times as many kids die in hot cars every year than people who have died on WMATA trains in its history - probably more people die in traffic accidents in this region every week.

My kids loved their field trips to the Zoo and the Air and Space Museum - sure they could have just stayed in their day care center but I think we can and should push our kids a bit more and experience the cool local options we have.

If parents, and teachers, want to be conservative and avoid imagined perils and difficulties I guess that is up to them (and maybe consistent with their suburban car oriented choices) but for both of my kids the trips were popular with both kids and parents.[/quote]

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