Re: Skate Park

[TEX <tex@kuoi.asui.uidaho.edu>]

No offense, Kacey, but that is a fairly weak argument.  The same argument
you have made could be used in support of not sending kids to public
schools.  I"m not sure if that is good for the skate park or bad for the
schools..

           Clint "Tex" Payton
       email: tex@kuoi.asui.uidaho.edu

On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Kacey wrote:

> My point is not that I don't like the skate park.  My point is that I would
> not allow my children to go to the skate park.  It is a dangerous, both
> mentally and physically, place for young children.  I am sure many other
> parents would not want their children in such an enviroment.
>
> -Kacey
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bob Hoffmann" <escape@alt-escape.com>
> To: <vision2020@moscow.com>
> Sent: Monday, April 16, 2001 5:45 PM
> Subject: Re: Skate Park
>
>
> > At 03:21 PM 4/16/2001 -0700, Kacey Krehbiel wrote:
> > >I agree with you, we can find good at bad places....
> >
> > Kacey,
> >
> > Don't forget that the reverse is true:  We can also find bad in good
> > places.  I take it that you are saying the skate park is "not your
> > thing."  Well, that's fine.  But I don't think you are doing anybody a
> > service by insinuating that it is a bad thing, and that predominantly bad
> > people hang out there.
> >
> > I remember suggesting to my little sister that she should take a
> > woodworking class in high school.  She said, "I don't want to be in a
> class
> > with a bunch of burnouts!"  Well, I loved woodworking in high school, and
> I
> > certainly was no burnout.  Indeed, a lot of stereotypical "druggies" were
> > in shop classes, but so were a lot of jocks.  And a lot of just plain nice
> > people.  But I didn't go to woodworking class for any of the above; I went
> > to those classes because I loved to take a hunk of wood and transform it
> > into a cedar chest, or a cupboard, or a smoothly polished bowl.  I enjoyed
> > some of those people, and "dealt with" the others, because they were
> around
> > something that I loved to do.  If you don't like skating, then you don't
> > have to go to the skate park and deal with the people who hang out there.
> >
> >
> > Bob Hoffmann
> > 846 Mabelle St.
> > Moscow, ID  83843
> >
> > Tel: 208 883-0642
> > Fax: 877 495-2279
> >
>