In 2 feet of snow...
In the middle of July
(They didn't have summer vacation)
Oh...and they liked it.
Posted on 04/02/2016 6:54:01 AM PDT by Rebelbase
JASPER, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee mother faces child neglect charges after deputies say she made her daughters walk to school.
The Chattanooga Times Free-Press reports that 32-year-old Lisa Marie Palmer was charged after authorities found her driving ahead of her daughters as she made them walk to school.
Marion County sheriff’s Deputy Chris Ladd, who spotted the two girls, says it appeared Palmer was driving ahead of her children and allowing them to catch up to her car until the kids reached the school.
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What is wrong with TN?
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What is wrong with TN?”
What’s wrong with America?
What if she let them have paper routes?
I walked two miles each day to school starting with the first day of first grade. The only way I got a ride was if it was pouring down rain. A light drizzle got me an umbrella. I hated it. However, I realized shortly that I was in substantially better physical condition than the kids who took the bus or got a ride every day. I was also more independent and self-reliant. By the time I reached junior high I was happy to walk to school for the benefits it provided.
My father says he walked five miles to school, both going to school and coming home he had to walk uphill.
I hope it's some reasonable charge like: "Failure to Homeschool".
Public school is child abuse.
She wouldn’t have had this problem if she had walked with them.
I required my son to walk to school once (about 2 miles) as a lesson after he purposely missed the school bus. He didn’t know it but I was all over him in my truck, but staying hidden. It took him an hour and a half, but he made it and never missed the bus again.
Society and culture has changed in the past fifty years as it has grown into a nanny nation. As I’ve previously wrote, my grandad who lived in Queens, New York, would take the subway to Manhattan. He was nine at the time and not a worry. Today kids can’t even go down the block to a local park without the parents being charged with neglect. Kids have to organized by adults to play games; the kids aren’t even able to play and get together on their own without having an adult to supervise.
Oh, no. This is going to turn into a 4 Yorkshiremen thread.
I got dropped off in the morning (dad on the way to work) but walked home in the afternoon. It was maybe two miles home from middle school and one mile from high school. I agree with you about the benefits of walking. Been a fast walker ever since.
No child should be left behind.
No child should go without bullying or physical or sexual abuse.
Every child should suffer equally.
(Do I really need to put a disclaimer???)
There is more to this story. I wonder if she had them walking on a highway or something. Perhaps she was impeding traffic.
The story has few facts. If the mother is making the kids walk for missing the bus—yet is aware of the “environment” to the point where she is watching them, she is probably not an idiot.
My guess is they were walking on a busy street without sidewalks AND she was impeding traffic. Both of those things are “ticket worthy.”
The full story is a bit different, though.
Lucky the husband was not shot.
Maybe like my mom, she generally drove the kids to school in her nightie. All the moms did that in the 50s and 60s.
The link offers a broader picture, including:
girls already had walked about a mile and a half and still had about two more miles to go.
cold, and traffic was beginning to become heavy
Palmer didn’t have a valid driver’s license
Palmer’s husband, Brandon Palmer, and his father, Douglas Palmer, arrived, officers asked for a valid driver’s license from them, and Douglas Palmer refused and began to argue with officers, and used obscene language in the presence of the children
Palmer accused the cop of being “the cop that beat me up last time,” started to take off his seat belt and get out of the car, grabbed at his waist, where the officer said he saw a fixed-blade knife in a sheath
there was a struggle and the man was handcuffed
officers said they found drug paraphernalia in his pocket
By the time I came along (1948) and because I was the first girl, I don’t think I walked to school. My older brother however remembers not only walking but for part of the route taking the city bus from the time he was in first grade. I do remember that I would get home from school and during the summer, take off for hours at a time by myself and since we lived in a new suburb I would end up out in the country with my dog Boots.
In 2 feet of snow...
In the middle of July
(They didn't have summer vacation)
Oh...and they liked it.
I walked home a lot and it was 5 miles. I could beat the bus if the driver stopped to spank a student or two that was cutting up. Yep it was a Catholic school.
I can remember walking through hip deep snow to get home when we lived rural in blizzard conditions. It was only about 1 1/2 miles though. I’d bring the cows home to milk out of the east pasture. NOTE: Don’t try to take a shortcut and walk across the frozen river. You break through the ice to the waist and get COLD.
Then I got smarter and broke Susie, my pet Holstein, to ride and carried a hackamore bridle to school. I rode her home out of the pasture.
Kids nowadays would be scared of a cow.
I went to school with your father. On the days his feet hurt, I had to carry him on my back.......
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