Kid banned from cycling to school

BTW, my children's primary school has bike racks for children to park in after they ride to school. And they run cycling proficiency classes too.

So not every school is being so stoopid.

I wonder how much of this issue is driven by insurance companies. Schools must have to take out insurance. And I guess it costs them to have to be responsible for a shed of bikes and possibly the insurance companies charge extra if any children cycle to school. I know a friend has been told she is not to cycle between company offices any longer. I assumed that was an insurance issue.

Alot of it is about insurance and who is responsible if anything goes wrong. i.e. when the kids bikes get stolen by other kids at school or even outside the school, if the children fall off their bikes at school, etc. So much of these stupid rules are the results of schools protecting themselves from parents who love to aportion blame where ever they can and sue the pants of a local authority when the opportunity arises.