RICHLAND, Wash. – District officials in Richland, Washington are blaming their insurance company for the recent decision to remove swings from school playgrounds as a safety precaution.

“As schools get modernized or renovated or as we’re doing work on the playground equipment, we’ll take out the swings, it’s just really a safety issue, swings have been determined to be the most unsafe of all the playground equipment on a playground,” Richland School District spokesman Steve Aagard told CBS.

Linda Sharps, a mother and blogger for The Stir, was quick to put Aagard’s reasoning into perspective.

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“Well, according to the CDC’s research back in 1999, that’s not completely true,” she wrote. “That year, an estimated 205,850 playground equipment-related injuries were treated in U.S. hospital emergency rooms, with half (53 percent) of the injuries involving public equipment occurred on ‘climbers.’ (Also, 60 percent of those injuries occurred on overhead horizontal ladders, which I assume are what we think of as monkey bars.) About two-thirds (67 percent) of the injuries were related to the swings.”

Regardless, CBS reports the district has already removed swings from some schools.

And at least one parent CBS spoke with said she thought the decision was a great idea.

Muge Kaineoz said her daughter starts school next year and she’s nervous about the dangerous swings.

“When she starts elementary school, those swings can get crazy!” she said, adding that she’s worried about kids walking in front of their swinging peers.

“I actually witnessed an accident with my own eyes,” Kaineoz told CBS. “By the time you could do something about it she was knocked out.”

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Kaineoz, however, seemed to be in the minority, gauging by the public response to the decision online.

“It’s the PC brigade … ruining people’s lives with health and safety rubbish,” Marianne Sansum posted to Twitter.

“This is the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard, there have been swings on playgrounds since we started having schools,” Patricia Youell posted to the CBS story. “What’s wrong with people.”

Greg, who also commented on the CBS story, followed the district’s lack of logic down the rabbit hole.

“Richland needs to grow a pair! We are talking about swings! Kids get hurt walking/running on the sidewalk all the time, could you please get rid of those too,” he wrote. “A lot of kids are allergic to grass … get rid of it! The sun hurts some kids’ eyes, could you block it for us please?”

“I’m surprised they have playgrounds at all anymore,” brjoe Tweeted. “Times we live in, I guess.”

Richland’s executive director, Mark Panther, understands many parents want to keep the swings, but told the Tri-City Herald the decision was “a matter of liability.”

He said the school district has been phasing out swing sets for years. This year, officials removed swings from Badger Mountain and Tapteal elementaries. Other equipment that has been removed over the years include monkey bars, and merry-go-rounds, the Herald reports.

Each year Richland’s certified staff inspects school playgrounds to determine what equipment is unsafe, which has led to bans on mental objects, “which can have sharp edges or become too hot in the sun, as well as “anything that moves with a child and can lead to a fall,” according to the news site.

Kennewick and Pasco schools – two other Washington school districts – have also removed swings from school playgrounds, the Herald reports.