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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I walked most of elementary school. It was about a mile away, so not really that bad. We had a nice neighborhood with sidewalks, gutters, stop signs, etc.
Buddy of mine’s father insisted that he walked to school every day regardless of weather in Minnesota. Finally when he was high school age Dad took him to see the old homestead. It was two doors away from the school. He’d never mentioned the distance.
Is there a statute of limitations on this? Perhaps I could sue Mr. Allen who kicked me off the school bus for two weeks and made me walk? I’m pretty sure that my parents figured out my sudden desire to walk to school for awhile but felt that Mr. Allen had things under control.
We ALL walked to grade school in the 1950s. Not one of us died.
Well to be completely accurate, some died in vehicle-pedestrian traffic crashes, but not many.
I walked 2 miles to school every day, rain shine snow or wind, uphill both ways, through marauding packs of bearwolves, wearing shoes made of razor blades.
Cup! You were lucky to have a cup! I had to drink out of a rolled up newspaper!
I did the same thing to my son. He never missed the bus again and he made sure his younger sisters didn’t either when they started school.
No argument from me on homeschooling. Are you sure you addressed your comment to the right person?
What is this the “authority’s” business???
My parents would be in jail permanently with six living children in the thirties and forties!!!
REALLY, hmmm ???
We were upper middle class and were provided newspaper for our feet.
Learn to have a sense of humor and not be so literal or thin-skinned.
You all forgot about the baked potatoes! That’s right! Everybody who had to walk through 5 feet of snow, uphill, to go to school had to carry a hot, baked potato. It kept their hands warm, and served as breakfast once the kids got to school. My 5th grade teacher told me that’s how it was.:)
That’s the part that’s so dumb about the article. It doesn’t state the ages of the kids. If they were 5-6 year old kids, than I’d have to say yes, that’s way too much to expect of kids that little. Give a couple of years and it’s a different story.
If they’re little kids and that resistant to going to school, I’d be wanting to know what’s going on. Something’s likely to be amiss at school. Even older kids will hang back when they’re dealing with something uncomfortable. Kids don’t usually hate school without a reason.
Were they up too late the night before so that they had difficulty moving in the morning?
At least however, the parents didn’t just shove them out the door on their own. One of them attended the kids to make sure they arrived.
Even if a parent was walking with them, there’s no guarantee that they’d be of any use in an emergency. The parent could have been injured as well!
And what is ‘drug paraphernalia’? A pot pipe? Roach clips? Insulin needles? Cigarette rolling papers? Crack pipe? what?
Without verifiable information, this smacks loudly of a couple of small time keystone cops looking to trouble people they simply don’t like. I’ve seen WAY too much of that in my time.
And that’s what I’m going to think is going on. Did one of the teenage girls accuse the cops son of advances?
Small southern town with lots of prejudice still exist.
People are innocent until proven guilty, and then you even have to examine the ‘proof’.
I never saw them live. We really enjoyed Firesign Theatre in college, too.
My Son in Law, a newly minted State Trooper read the article and said that if they were endangered on a state road he would have pulled her over and made her drive the kids to a safer road.
He then said that she probably mouthed off or did something else wrong.
Last night I had dinner with a friend who is in Emergency Management for a large city. He was telling about a woman who had called 911 500 times in the last year.
So those people exist. I would not their job for anything. A vast majority of people are nice. But that last two percent are real winners.
I never really knew Firesign Theater. I knew the name but not anything about them.
“We lived for three months in a brown paper bag in a septic tank. “
Thanks, that was a good laugh!
Here, the local soccer mom’s who are too lazy to drive their kids to school pick them up at the bus stop in their SUVs.
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