Posted on 12/06/2018 5:17:18 AM PST by bgill
An Ohio father punished his daughter by making her walk five miles to school in 36 degrees after she was thrown off the bus for bullying. Matt Cox of Swanton said in a Facebook post that his 10-year-old daughter was suspended from the school bus last Friday. This was the second time that she had gotten into trouble for bullying. The young girl told her father that he would have to drive her to school for an entire week.
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So? I had to walk 20 miles through 6 feet of snow to school every day, when I was a kid! ;-)
That’s why everyone who lived before cell phones is dead now.
Dad was there the whole time.
it does looks like it created more work for him giving her the appropriate punishment
should of read the story before commenting. very good parenting.
Finally, a parent holding their kid accountable and using discipline.
My dad would have done the same thing.
I see parents driving their children 150 yards to the bus stop and waiting with them in the car until the bus arrives. This is on a suburban cul-de-sac with sidewalks, not on the U.S Highway or an isolated country road.
My theory is that once the first parent does this, it sets a coddling standard that others feel they have to meet.
It’s because readers or viewers enjoy chatting about it. That’s all.
Austin, TX they let little kindergarteners on city buses by themselves - What could possibly go wrong with a 5 year old alone on public transportation??
Here will come the screaming liberals calling child abuse.
Boo boo. :-( I walked in all weather to go to school. I was more than 5 miles. Mom went to work at 4am and got home a 5pm. No bus school 8am to 3pm.
All through grade school, starting Grade One, in every kind of weather, and this was in Erie, PA where the snow is outrageous. On blizzard days, o course, schools were closed. I mean blizzard. But as soon as the roads were cleared, school was on again and my brother and I had to walk to and from school, which was just past 3 miles away.
I know the distance because the Parochial School kids could ride the buses with a subsidy (this was in the 1950's) if we were more than 3 miles from the school. They published a city may with a 3 mile radius circle drawn around the school, and we were just outside the circle.
So 5 miles is not at all over-the-top for an object-lesson on a bullying 10-year-old.
She will never forget. And she'll be better for it. Amen to that.
Video on ABC shows the father following her in his car.
AND-—36 degrees in winter IS NOT FREEZING...
Another example of no education anymore.
This is in Ohio. Believe me, there are far more harsh days than 36 degrees in Ohio in the winter.
Up hill, both ways in the snow. On icy days we had to wrap our bare feet in barbed wire for traction.
“That is amazing! In Alabama, freezing is below 32 DegF. Ohio is apparently different.”
It’s further north. Duh.
I've seen that.
“These days a cell phone is a safety requirement. This irritates me to no end in my family law cases. That is the the worst thing the parent can do. It leaves a child vulnerable to God knows what. DO NOT TAKE AWAY THE CELL PHONE!!!!!!!!!!!!”
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Gasps for breath.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
“The punishment is no punishment if the parents have to drive them to school”
Flashback for me, different offense, but my 16 year-old once stayed out waaay past his curfew at my house so I took his (my) car away from him for a week. He goes over to my ex’s house and tells her about it and her response is, “that’s ok you can use our car for the week.”
Like beating my head against the wall.
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