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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Downtown Silver Spring has some very busy streets, and a few pedestrian fatalities in the past few years.   Sometimes kids don't pay enough attention or take stupid risks because they don't truly understand they could get hit by a car or whatever.   A good number of adults and teens run across Colesville, Georgia, etc.  against the light.  If you're not paying attention, that serves as a cue that it's your turn to cross too.  [/quote]

Yep - not to mention that the Downtown Silver Spring outdoor mall area, with was just 2-3 blocks away from the park these kids were picked up in, has been the site of epic gang battles in the recent past -- http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/concerns-about-silver-spring-spur-consideration-of-curfew/2011/07/26/gIQAXiYobI_story.html.  I think a lot of the people supporting these parents don't quite have a sense of the geography and situation here. We're not talking about some quiet suburban neighborhood filled with kids and SAHMs. It's a major, traffic-filled urban center full of strangers.

And I say this as one who also had one of those 70s/80s free range childhoods and benefitted from it, and am sad that my kid won't get the same thing.  But hanging out in a park in the late afternoon as a 6 and 10 year old in Downtown Silver Spring is a FAR cry from my free range childhood, which took place in practically car-free cul de sac with dozens of kids out at any one time, and neighborhood parents who knew all of us.  [/quote]

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