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    [RC] Children riding endurance - Randy and Cheryl Winter


        You both make my point for me.  Mandatory school attendance law means
    that students must be educated.  They don't have to attend a public school
    to do so.  I believe even in CA this is true.  Child labor laws don't mean
    kids can't work just that they can't be forced to do jobs that might tend to
    prevent them from benefiting from youth and predictably harm their future.
    One does not have to work 9 - 5 and bring home a pay check to learn
    responsibility.  Mucking stalls is just fine (unless taken to abusive
    extremes).  I still believe both are good governance.
        Now I am not pro age restriction here.  I am pro protecting kids,
    because of their limited choice in the matter, to anything that can
    predictibally harm them physically or mentally.  Does someone have to ride
    100 miles at any age to reap the benefits of our sport?  Can we predict that
    at a certain physical stage harm will come to a child later in life because
    of their activity now?  I hope we can look at the issue through a
    professionals eyes as in other sports like Little League Baseball and make
    some determinations that will give kids the right to reap the benefits of
    endurance riding and not jeapordize their future.
    
    Randy Winter
    Colorado
    
    
    I dunno....when my kids muck, they are working pretty damn hard - and no one
    complains (besides them, I mean.)  And school attendance laws, at least here
    in CA are NOT mandatory - I can home school 'em if I want to!  Children are
    the responsibility of the parents...unless one is Hillary Clinton, then it
    takes a village.
    Scott
    
    Oh, I dunno.  It used to be that kids learned responsibility and a work
    ethic by working part-time, and could reference work experience when it came
    time to support themselves.  Yes, it is good that children are no longer in
    sweat shops, but we are now to an equally damaging opposite extreme with
    regard to child labor.  Sad, sad indeed.  As to mandatory school
    attendance--more and more people are reverting to home schooling because of
    various issues with the public school system.  And from what I've seen, the
    majority of home-schooled children are more polite, more responsible, more
    capable, and better educated than most of their public-school peers.  So
    can't say mandatory school attendance is necessarily wonderful either.
    Since kids can't work, at least they can still participate in sports like
    endurance, where they learn responsibility for their horse, they learn to
    stick with something until it is finished, and they learn lots of relevant
    skills.  Unless, of course, the powers that be choose to remove that
    opportunity for the younger ones as well....
    
    Heidi
    
    
    
    
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