Posted on 05/14/2024 1:53:05 AM PDT by grundle
Same here. I guess we are showing our age.
No. Down a couple blocks on the sidewalk in a residential area.
Did you not walk or ride your bike or ride a school bus to school?
Most such parents are into raising veal calves. No bottom, no guts. Sheep to be shorn.
Did you read the article? She clearly states the reasons she doesn’t drive her daughter to school, which have nothing to do with the environment or pollution.
It’s a Chicag suburb and by the looks of it a very wealthy one.
“ On their first visit, Social Services would strongly imply that this lack of supervision is criminal child neglect.”
That my dear is the problem with American parenting as it pertains to this story.
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She’s from LaGrange
LaGrange is a nice suburb and very safe.
I can’t say enough good about the community, which has its own forestry department to care for the 10,000 or so trees. The Village plants and maintains them in the space between the sidewalk and the street. Every home is REQUIRED to have at least one tree. When I grew up they were all Dutch Elms, with all but a few blocks wiped out by Dutch Elm disease.
Two things though. The Village has gone increasingly leftist and woke, which explains STUPID parents driving their kids to and from schools. There’s also another “side of the tracks” on the southeast side where you just shouldn’t go for the same reason you shouldn’t go to the south side of Chicago.
One more story about La Grange… In high school I was an — I’m almost sorry to admit it — an environmentalist leader. I was appointed to the new Village Environmental Commission and became the youngest commissioner in its history (at least to that point). The nearby Salt Creek was so polluted I started an organization called Save Salt Creek, which put me on front page articles on the La Grange Citizen. In recent years I’ve marveled at how clear the Salt Creek water appears.
Kudos to you for improving Salt Creek.
“In the cars sit devoted parents who want the best for their children, which also seems to include polluting the air and constipating the streets.
But beyond the environmental consequences of the car line,”
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Then what did she mean by adding those words ???
I interpreted as she didn’t want to waste her time in the long lines of cars dropping kids off. When I used to walk my son to school the cars were lined up for two blocks waiting to drop kids off, which is just silly. I read it differently. To each their own.
way to many helicopter parents, mostly single mothers
What is ewetewb?
How an Obsession with SAFETY Leads to Mental Illness & Tyranny - Academy of Ideas
Yes, a video of merit. A false balance is abomination to the Lord: but a just weight [scale] is his delight. (Proverbs 11:1) The Left seeks power - as proxy servants of the selfish devil - and fosters grievances as well as insecurity by inventing or magnifying injustices and or fears in order to obtain power by portraying themselves as saviors and protectors.
Yet they also foster the very injustices they oppose as well as dangerous practices by their supporters in order to increase more power-obtaining dependence upon them as well.
Anti-racism become that of racism against the class who are portrayed as oppressors, while degradation of the basic Biblical stable, sharing, virtuous character-producing family unit into one that fosters indolence, fraud, and victimizer syndrome, whereby the liberal elites promote themselves as saviors of the perpetually oppressed.
And as rebels against traditional Biblical morality, they foster fornication with its deleterious cost in souls, lives and money.
I pray for the child’s safety on her walks to school.
Prosperous people are a danger to the regime.
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