Raising children and traffic lights (forum posts)

Illegal to raise your children. - Essentially the government is saying that it is illegal to keep your children home ~7 hours for around 180 days out of the year. If you decide not to let your kids go then a nice truancy officer knocks on your door and says you'll be fined and sent to court if you don't send them to school.
No Traffic Lights? - I read an article (can't remember where) on a town in Germany, or possibly the Netherlands, where they took down all the traffic lights and road signs. Vehicles and pedestrians both had equal right-of-way. Accidents were actually reduced.