A bus shows a sign of rear door boarding only as it drives in Lynn Valley in North Vancouver on March 25, 2020.Vancouver father Adrian Crook has won a legal battle over whether his children could take a city bus on their own, after B.C.‘s Court of Appeal found the province overstepped its authority when it ordered him to supervise his young children on public transit.
“So it’s really down to what it should be – which is my perspective on whether or not they are mature enough to do the bus ride that particular day,” he said.Mr. Crook, who writes about parenting and urban living in his blog, 5 Kids 1 Condo, had been teaching his four oldest children to take a city bus to and from their school for the previous two years.
Mr. Crook went public, posting about the issue on his blog, and then to court, with the help of a GoFundMe campaign to cover legal costs.The issue touched a nerve with parents and resulted in discussions over parenting, children’s safety and whether age was the best guideline to determine how much independence a child should have.
“However, the record shows that the appellant’s agreement was only given on an interim, not an ongoing basis. Despite that, the Director closed the file. Given that the Director did not consider the appellant’s children to be in need of protection and took no further steps, her delegates had no authority to require the appellant to supervise his children on the bus . It follows that this purported exercise of statutory power was unreasonable.
Wasting that poor man's time, energy and money for nothing. Shameful make-work legal system. parasites
A Karen law would have prevented this.
This poor family has been dealing with idiotic, over protective nonsense for THREE years! If people think public transit is so dangerous why aren't they demanding the mayor make it safer
YES!! Finally some common sense!
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