I have a friend who says that the school bus will not drop off his children if the driver believes that nobody is home. He has several times had to leave work so that he can meet the bus and reassure the driver that somebody is home. He says that children who are not met by an adult are collected at the school and will be turned over to child services if nobody drives to the school to get them. He was told this was all about liability.
I can’t tell you if this is for every child or because one of his has special needs.
They are not free range children just FREE children as this is still supposed to be America. It is the parenst who should be raising the children not the Government..
I started school in the ‘50s and walked to EVERY class, including Kindergarten, a half mile away. I played, unsupervised, in parks and nearby vacant land. This was not “free range”. It was normal. In my two room country school in the fourth and fifth grade, we had a very strict policy on guns in school: “Anyone bringing a gun to school had to unload it and leave it in the coat room.” We were far safer then than kids are today with the do-gooders making the rules.
I find this story somewhat amusing. Starting about 1940, I attended Parkside Elementary School (historic..now Acorn Hill Children Center and Montgomery Co. Park HQ) located on the other side of Sligo Creek Parkway less than a quarter mile from where the Meitiv family now lives. My parents dropped me off in the morning on their way to work but my brother (who was four years older) and I were expected to walk back after school about a mile and a half to our home (now a county park called Forest Glen Park) on the other side of Georgia Avenue. After my brother graduated to junior high school, I walked home alone. The only problem I ever had walking home was a confrontation with a goose by Beans’ farm (now Holy Cross Hospital) where I learned the hard way what my nurse from childhood told me; ”Gooses has rocks in their wings!”
My dad fave me a book about the history of Shenandoah County VA that was sourced from many things including oral history given by older lifelong residents. The thing that was most fascinating to me was that a widow who lived near a school offered a hot meal to kids who lived too far to go home for lunch. She made a little money and it solved a problem. It is so sad that I just accept that the government would never allow this now. We have lost so much.
Interesting.
I was recently in the neighborhood I grew up in and was shocked to see school guards on every street surrounding my old high school. My generation thought of ourselves as “adults.” We would have scorned a crossing guard at 17.
Why don’t the authorities do something about the free range children of illegal aliens? Those kids run around wild in public, screaming and destroying things like animals. My family witnessed one of them take a diarrhea dump on the floor of Walmart. We see them in grocery stores running around eating food without paying, throwing the wrappers on the floor. We saw a kid open a cooler, take out a bottle of soda—he opened it and took a swig, then put it back in the cooler. We reported it but no one did anything about it.
US Citizens that allow their children to play unsupervised in the local park are the scum of the earth! Parents that send their children to trek across central america, through Mexico and illegally across our borders are heros to be commended!
And the gods of the copybook headings with terror and slaughter return.