Re: skate park

[Kacey Krehbiel <kaceyk@moscow.com>]

If you had a young son or daughter between the ages of 6-12 when they are
beginning to recieve influences from the outside you would most likely want
them to have good influences.  The skate park has only the influences of
swearing, smoking, and sometimes illegal behavior.

Bill London wrote:

> I am surprised to read that the new skate park is a place parents do not
> want their kids to go to.....
> Though my daughter is now too old for such things, I did not think of the
> park as a place I would refuse to let her hang out at....
> Why is it viewed as a bad place?
> BL
>
> Kacey Krehbiel wrote:
>
> > I want to address the topic of good quality places for teens of Moscowto
> > go.  There are a few places that teens go around the city.  However, Few
> > require money, or are not places parents would wnat their children, i.e.
> > the Skate Park.  I think we need to make places for our teens and
> > children to go that they would want to.
> >
> > -Thank you