In many places they have a ‘walking bus’ in which there is no bus at all but there are numerous adult chaperones.
It is ludicrous that a child within walking distance of a school cannot actually walk to school, alone or in a group (of students), but then the same liberals elected to office by the likes of this principal keep letting psychos and criminals back onto the streets.
The walking bus concept, however, brings to mind the phenomenon of parents staking out the bus stop in their cars, poised to pull their child back into ‘the bubble’ of smothering attention and overprotectiveness.
This is to say nothing of the parents who, rather incredibly, drive their children to school and pick them up every single day. I know one principal who has to wrangle the bus loading after school as well as a long parade of cars picking up individual children.
The questions come thick and fast:
-Why are so many parents able to meet the bus at pickup (say 8 AM) and dropoff (3 PM)? Aren’t those working hours for most?
-How will children ever become socialized if they are kept in a cocoon?
-Have the parents considered that all the screen time (phones, tablets, games) spent by children is a) a poor substitute for this socialization and b) leads to the wrong kind of attitudes and behavior?
-If kids never walk, ride bikes, run, roughhouse, etc. is it any wonder the little buggers are morbidly obese and have all the interpersonal skills of Dustin Hoffman’s Rain Man character?
Careful, you'll affront the home schoolers!