thoroughly disgusted

(The below is a copy of the email  I sent to the local school superintendent and the local paper last night.)

I am absolutely, completely disgusted at this school district. First,
ramming Jamie Oliver's "healthy foods" program through the schools,
now taking out the swings because a couple kids goof off and get hurt.
Number one, there is not a kid in the world who has not fallen,
scraped a knee, gotten bruised and banged up while playing on a school
playground. I know I did, and I lived to tell the tale. Are we going
to take out the even more dangerous monkey bars? How about the little
balance beam type things that are about 6 inches off the ground that
some playgrounds have? This school system is not protecting the kids,
it is protecting itself from frivolous lawsuits that any judge worth
his/her salt would throw out. This is not about the kids, it is about
money.

Number two, when taking out the swings, why was not the whole set
taken out? Why was the frame of the swingset left behind to be used as
an even more dangerous set of monkey bars? This is happening at my
child's school...she has seen it.

If this was about protecting the children, then someone with some
sense would be ensuring that it would be done right, instead of
halfway, as usual.

This school system makes me laugh at the way it thinks sometimes. I
have 3 children of my own who are either in or have graduated from
Cabell County schools, and overall, although I do have several
complaints about the number of teacher inservice days and the fact
that while policy states the school will supply any required
materials, yet I am still having to purchase my honor student's
reading materials for the summer, my kids have done very well and have
actually had teachers who have challenged them and driven them to
succeed. Yet it can't even take a swingset down without endangering
kids more.

I guess I just don't understand priorities. Mine is to teach my child
to think about consequences...you fool around on playground equipment
and get hurt, well, I guess you learned not to do it again. You fail
to study for a test and fail, well, I guess you'll study next time.
Surely I am not the only parent who does this. Maybe I just feel like
it, but that's the way it is.

Maybe this makes sense to you, maybe you think it's a rant. Either
way, I feel you need to know how this parent feels about what to me is
a pretty senseless decision on the part of the school system.

Thank you.