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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]My kids go to a sports camp at a boarding school and I was surprised that the bunks don't have guard rails. Very high![/b]

FWIW my 70's bunk bed had low flimsy guardrails (but at least had them!).[/quote]

You might want to refer back to the earlier posts in this thread about the kid who fell from a top bunk on travel for Little League.  Picture your own kids falling from that height.

I would actually make a stink about this with a camp, and would cite the case of the Little League player's severe (possibly lifetime) injury. It's pretty appalling that there are still bunk beds without guardrails anywhere at all, including colleges. Basically injuries (and lawsuits) waiting to happen.

Especially since a kid who is not used to a bunk bed, but is using a top bunk for camp, sports travel, family trip, etc., is not going to be accustomed to realizing how high up they really are. And I know my own kid never fully woke if she needed to use the bathroom in the middle of the night -- she likely would have been in a half-sleeping haze and would have believed she was in her own bed, and would have crashed to the floor from a top bunk. [/quote]

It wasn't the first time a child had fallen off a bunk bed at the LLWS. A child fell in 2019 and his parents were assured that rails would be installed, which they weren't. Also, the maker of the bunk beds used at the LLWS recommends the use of rails.

https://www.pennlive.com/life/2022/09/bunk-bed-maker-sued-over-little-league-players-fall-says-it-recommended-guard-rails.html[/quote]

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