Kickflip On A Skateboard

Should Skateboarders be allowed to skate on school grounds?

I’d like to know where Yahoo users stand. I was at a football party at school, and we had hamburgers and other food. Before that, 4 members of the football team were Skateboarding. One of the Janitors threatened to call the police. The kid got off of it immediately, but forgot the threat and STOOD on his skateboard to talk to his girlfriend. He didn’t skate, and he didn’t move. 15 minutes later, there are three police cars and they write their names down so they could talk to his parents later. A weak punishment, yes, but still no excuse to call the police on the skateboarders. This school allows bikers to bike on school grounds! Why should they ban skating too?
It was an honest question, Ida. Don’t be a jerk about it.

The main reasons have already been stated (injury/liability and skateboarding damages to property), but in addition, more often than not, those who skateboard also tend to like to vandalize things. This is, of course, not commenting on all skateboarders; it is a stereotype which seems to work a lot.

At my old high school, as well as any other that I happened to visit, skateboarders would vandalize anything they could get their hands on. The bikers never did, nor did the scooter folk. Skateboarders take school equipment and destroy it, either for their own use as jumps or the like, or just because. I ran a school organization, and the largest expense we had was repairing our equipment and fixing our storage shed because we found it broken into one day, our equipment on a field nearby making ramps or grinding areas or jumping platforms.
Thus, the schools generally make rules against all skateboarding, so they can get those that do tend to vandalize. It also gets those that don’t break the law, but as they must enforce the rules on all (especially these guys, since they tend to cry about rights and mistreatment if they are singled out, and then go break something or cut down the school’s tree), it’s a sacrifice the school’s are willing to take.

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