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Mom Who Overslept While Son Walked to School Could Get 10 Years in Prison
Reason ^ | Dec. 3, 2015 | Lenore Skenazy

Posted on 12/05/2015 6:17:12 PM PST by Twotone

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To: Twotone

This is how college crybullies are made. Special snowflakes have to be coddled and chauffeured into existence.


61 posted on 12/05/2015 6:58:32 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
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To: Twotone

i walked three blocks to school and back when I was six. My parents had no problem with that.


62 posted on 12/05/2015 6:59:04 PM PST by Ciexyz
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To: PROCON
Oh yeah, but was it uphill both ways? In the snow? Ha!

No, I had it easy, my Dad though had to walk uphill both ways to school in the snow 1920s.

63 posted on 12/05/2015 7:00:01 PM PST by Inyo-Mono
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To: wjcsux

This is how dykes procure the children they won’t bear.


64 posted on 12/05/2015 7:02:15 PM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: goldstategop

Heck I was in Kindergarten when I walked to school and back. No big deal.


65 posted on 12/05/2015 7:03:05 PM PST by Patriot Babe
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To: Dr. Sivana

windsor locks wasn’t much different


66 posted on 12/05/2015 7:13:50 PM PST by RaceBannon (Rom 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for)
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To: Twotone

I was raised in The Fifties and, by the Nanny State standards of today, my parents would have been sent to prison several dozen times.

Yet here I am, and knowing for a certainty that I was better raised than any kids of today.

You’d think that the parents of America never had any children before 1998.


67 posted on 12/05/2015 7:19:14 PM PST by Jack Hammer
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To: goldstategop

I used to walk to school in the first grade. Crossed a four-lane hwy by myself and sometimes while leading my smaller siblings in succeeding years. We had about a half-mile walk one way and the traffic was always busy. This is insane what they are doing to this mom.


68 posted on 12/05/2015 7:19:41 PM PST by fabjr60 ("I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered! My life is my own.")
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To: Twotone

[eyeroll] Kids have been walking to school for centuries. I realize there are some new dangers, but let’s not overreact.


69 posted on 12/05/2015 7:22:33 PM PST by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: Twotone

is there something I don’t know about her town?
we always walked or rode our little bicycles to school
no big deal

worked just fine

what’s the beef in her town?


70 posted on 12/05/2015 7:23:32 PM PST by faithhopecharity (Brilliant, funny, and incisive Tagline coming to this space soon.....)
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To: Lizavetta

71 posted on 12/05/2015 7:23:47 PM PST by sparklite2 (Islam = all bathwater, no baby.)
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To: goldstategop

I was selling strawberries at the end of our road when I was about 8...


72 posted on 12/05/2015 7:24:52 PM PST by cherry
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To: goldstategop
This is nowhere close to child abuse - of course, if the kid was truant, that’s also reason to take their parent away from them.

Good point. The child obviously was trained and accustomed to go to school regularly which speaks well of the parents.

73 posted on 12/05/2015 7:25:58 PM PST by luvbach1 (We are finished. It will just take a while before everyone realizes it.)
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To: goldstategop

I got a Schwinn Stingray for my 8th Birthday.

I rode that puppy to school BY MYSELF no matter the weather. Of course, this is Southern California, we don’t really have much Weather.

I laugh when I see the line of SUV’s lined up around the Elementary and Middle Schools around here. You would think the Kids were all born without Feet.


74 posted on 12/05/2015 7:27:56 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (Obama, unable to call a Spade a Spade...)
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To: jessduntno

When I was in the third grade there were kids that came to school barefoot all the time.

They couldn’t afford shoes so when it started getting cold the teachers asked the families that could afford to by shoes if they would buy shoes for them.


75 posted on 12/05/2015 7:31:46 PM PST by IMR 4350
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To: napscoordinator

believe it or not there is not any more child abduction today as there was 50 years ago. we only hear about all the evil awful stuff more because of television. I have a feeling that most children are safer today then they were in the 1960s because we are better at spotting those that mean to harm children and when they do harm a child they are more likely to get caught and not victimize more kids.


76 posted on 12/05/2015 7:35:54 PM PST by PCPOET7
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To: PCPOET7

That could be true. Media and especially news was very rare at exposing things in the 60’s. Today 24 hour news and nothing goes unnoticed.


77 posted on 12/05/2015 7:37:52 PM PST by napscoordinator
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To: HereInTheHeartland

“So how long were you in prison?”

Well, I did have to go to the school and bring him his shoes and get tsked tskd at.


78 posted on 12/05/2015 7:39:18 PM PST by jessduntno (The mind of a liberal...deceit, desire for control, greed, contradiction and fueled by hate.)
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To: Twotone
I walked 6 blocks to school at age 7. I also had a key to the house, since the folks worked and I let myself in. Had what my parents did then were to happen today, they'd likely have gotten the death penalty and I would have been in foster care.

This country has truly gone to Hell.

79 posted on 12/05/2015 7:52:10 PM PST by Thumper1960 (Cruz/Palin2016)
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To: Twotone

Hard to imagine getting a jury conviction. I am surprised the D.A. decided to pursue this case.


80 posted on 12/05/2015 8:01:18 PM PST by TheDon (BO must be replaced immediately for the good of the nation and the world!)
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