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5-year-old told to walk home (and his mother, of course, has a nervous breakdown)
Copyright © 2005 TWEAN d.b.a. News 10 Now ^
| Updated: 1/20/2005 7:07 AM
| By: Carmen Grant, News 10 Now Web Staff
Posted on 01/20/2005 4:49:01 AM PST by Behind Liberal Lines
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She says her son walked several blocks to his daycare, where he gets dropped off after school.Several BLOCKS. Not several MILES. Several BLOCKS.
Geez, I hate to sound like a cranky old man, but when I was a kid NO ONE expected a kid to take a bus if he or she only lived several BLOCKS from school.
No wonder our school taxes keep going up and our kids keep getting fatter and fatter.
My baby who is 5-years-old
Geez, lady, he's five years, not five months...why don't you put a dress on him already and get it over with?
To: Behind Liberal Lines
In this day and age, I wouldn't want my 5 year old walking through the city alone either. And not just because of the weather or traffic.
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posted on
01/20/2005 4:52:39 AM PST
by
kx9088
To: Behind Liberal Lines
We do not live in the same times now as when you were a kid. The world is now full of predators who look for children alone for very sick reasons.
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posted on
01/20/2005 4:53:13 AM PST
by
exnavy
To: Behind Liberal Lines
I agree with the ideas behind your post, but the world is a little different than it was when you were a kid. There seem to be a lot more predators for children out there these days and they are watching the patterns of young kids like this, walking alone, every day after school.
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posted on
01/20/2005 4:53:53 AM PST
by
AD from SpringBay
(We have the government we allow and deserve.)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
Geez. This kid is going to turn out to be a real wimp. I remember walking from school when I was five here in So Cal. But it wasn't home, it was to my job in a coal mine. And it was uphill, both ways, in the snow!!!
To: Behind Liberal Lines
You're not only cranky but not in touch with todays news. No 5 yr old should be out alone ever! it's unthinkable in this day and age for anyone to allow a child to go off walking by themselves. I too would have had a 'mental breakdown' if it was my 5 yr old.
The days of your youth are over..our children are being snatched, sexually attacked and murdered.
To: Behind Liberal Lines
This is BS. I don't let my kids walk alone anywhere, with all the liberal perverts running loose out there...
I would be HIGHLY po'd at this moron teacher.
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posted on
01/20/2005 4:56:04 AM PST
by
ovrtaxt
(Go Howard Go!)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
Join the 21st century--5-year-old kids don't cross busy intersections alone.
To: Behind Liberal Lines
The first day my daughter attended Kindergarten I was a nervous wreck. After Kindergarten she was to take the day care bus. I was so nervous I took the day off and followed the bus from school to make sure all was well.
My situation went without a hitch but at the daycare another little girl got off another bus. She attended the daycare facility a year before but had since gone to another daycare. She recognized the name on the bus and got on. No one checked if the kids got on the correct bus. The little girl had moved and the daycare no longer had the contact info on the girls parents. It was a mess.
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posted on
01/20/2005 4:57:40 AM PST
by
Republican Red
(DU: ''Reality sucks. That's the problem. We want another reality.'')
To: Behind Liberal Lines
She says her son walked several blocks to his daycare, where he gets dropped off after school. And now she demands that the State transport her kid all over the place.
Where is she? Couldn't she walk with him, or arrange for a relative to pick him up?
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posted on
01/20/2005 4:57:51 AM PST
by
Guillermo
(Tsunami relief: http://compassionservices.com)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
He is lucky he got there with all of the perverts on the loose. I agree with the mother. What the Hay was the school thinking?
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posted on
01/20/2005 4:58:52 AM PST
by
YOUGOTIT
To: Behind Liberal Lines
" I was a kid NO ONE expected a kid to take a bus if he or she only lived several BLOCKS from school."
Same here. But that world no longer exists for five year-olds. Traffic is intense nowadays as is the lurking danger of pedophiles.
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posted on
01/20/2005 4:58:54 AM PST
by
Rebelbase
(Who is General Chat?)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
I wish that we still lived in that world.
We don't.
To: exnavy
We do not live in the same times now as when you were a kid. The world is now full of predators who look for children alone for very sick reasons.
Actually it's not that different a world and that stuff happened in the "good old days" too. It just gets more publicity now.
And kidnapping by strangers is still incredibly rare. The vast majority of Amber Alerts and missing children are taken by one of the parents in a divorce.
To: Behind Liberal Lines
Behind Liberal Lines said: "Geez, I hate to sound like a cranky old man, but when I was a kid NO ONE expected a kid to take a bus if he or she only lived several BLOCKS from school."
If you truly hate to "sound like a cranky old man," or worse, sound like someone who has been asleep for years, it might be helpful for you to peruse the headlines of community newspapers across our vast country.
It has not been safe for children to walk anywhere without adult supervision for many years.
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posted on
01/20/2005 5:01:20 AM PST
by
bd476
(God Bless those in harm's way and bring peace to those who have lost loved ones today.)
To: kx9088
It was a mistake.
He's fine.
The school knows about it. It will be fixed.
Why literally make a federal case out of it?
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posted on
01/20/2005 5:01:56 AM PST
by
Publius6961
(The most abundant things in the universe are hydrogen, ignorance and stupidity.)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
seems you're outnumbered !
Welcome to the Amber Alert Era. It's just so sad that kids can't be left alone to walk or ride their bikes without concern of abductions and worse.
WHen I was a kid, I had to walk about a mile to and from school .. and we walked home for lunch! In New York City! When I was 9, my parents let me and a friend ride the subway ALONE into Manhattan. No one gave it a second thought. Don't think that would happen today.
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posted on
01/20/2005 5:03:16 AM PST
by
EDINVA
(a FReeper in PJ's beats a CBS anchor in a suit every time)
To: trussell; Brad's Gramma; Howlin; Hildy; onyx
Your input is needed here. Ping.
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posted on
01/20/2005 5:04:42 AM PST
by
bd476
(God Bless those in harm's way and bring peace to those who have lost loved ones today.)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
You're way off base on this. The world we created for today's five-year olds is just not safe enough to blithely send them out unescorted in any area, especially an urban one.
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posted on
01/20/2005 5:04:52 AM PST
by
wtc911
("I would like at least to know his name.")
To: Behind Liberal Lines
My baby who is 5-years-old who never walked anywhere a day in his life And they wonder why kids are obese these days.
(Not that I think a little kid should be walking around the streets alone ...)
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posted on
01/20/2005 5:07:43 AM PST
by
Tax-chick
("The short, gray-haired lady, with all the kids.")
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