I guess I am cut from an entirely different cloth. I picture a para sitting at a table with little chairs grading papers with matching words and shapes or perhaps making copies of coloring pages or setting up a display of books with sight words.

We're not talking about somebody in a high-stakes job. The chance of injury isn't quite up there with someone working on an offshore drilling rig.

Babysitters don't have some 'big brother' covering them for job injuries. Nor do most of the small business owners clear across America who are keeping things running for many of us. When I am in my own kitchen chopping a tomato with a sharp knife I am about 100x more at risk than while sitting in a kindergarten room where there don't even happen to be students present.

I think we're becoming pansies, needing 'protection' from goofy non-existent 'threats.' I assume the paras have health insurance. If so... they're covered in case of an injury! They might not have big brother waiting to pick up the tab for the deductible if they get a hangnail while grading papers and need to rush to the ER... but I just think all this 'need' for protection is overblown in this instance.