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[quote=Anonymous]We live in a place similar to Bethesda (partly walkable but with a lot of spread out neighborhoods) on the streets closest to the main shopping area where all the kids want to go. The kids from the further out parts of the neighborhood all have electric scooters or rent scooters since they have phones. Because our house faces one of the streets right by the helping area, we see all of these kids en route.

DO NOT let your kid ride these. I’ve seen really bad choices (3 kids on a scooter cutting in front of cars going 25 mph + no helmets) and bad accidents. Yet nothing seems to deter these kids or parents. One parent at our school, when school banned the scooters on campus, asked “how will my kid get around?”. One parent said that their child can’t be expected to walk and another said she let them use the scooter because “I can’t drive them every time they want to go somewhere”.

These are 10-12 year olds.

The stuff I’ve seen the 15-16 year olds do is far worse. We were eating on the porch one night and a kid wrecked and a pile of liquor bottles spilled out of his bag and broke or rolled everywhere. He was limping and scraped up and flinging bottles into the bushes and trying to pretend he was invisible while we asked if he was ok and if we could call for help.[/quote]

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