Posted on 11/28/2008 2:32:45 PM PST by naturalman1975
A TERRITORY man has been making his five-year-old son walk two-and-a-half hours to school every day, after he was kicked off the school bus.
When Jack Burt confessed that he'd been banned for five days for hitting the bus driver in the head with an apple core, dad Sam thought he should learn the hard way.
He and Jack last week were getting up at 5.10am for the dusty 13km-hike from the Darwin rural area of Herbert, all the way to Humpty Doo.
Mr Burt also took the wheels off Jack's bike so he couldn't be tempted to ride to school.
At the end of the old-fashioned punishment, Mr Burt, 38, took out a public notice in the Northern Territory News.
"Jack Burt and his dad wish to thank all the kind people who stopped to offer them lifts in the past week," the ad read.
"It's good to see a number of good people in the community."
"Jack hopes to be allowed back on the bus on Monday."
(Excerpt) Read more at ntnews.com.au ...
Ping, to see a good Dad in action.
Sure - Humpty Doo, home of the Big Boxing Crocodile.
It’s named after Umpity Doo, the farm that originally occupied the site of the current town.
Now - what Umpity Doo was named after is anybody’s guess.
First..I applaud this man for teaching his son a life lesson..
Second...Humpty Doo?..I love it! That could easily be a town in Texas.
I bet with every step that kid is thinking, “I shouldn’t have thrown that apple core.”
Mr. Razzman, my fourth grade teacher at Cayuga Heights Elementary, could bean you with a piece of chalk or a chalkboard eraser from across the room. It was the most well-behaved class I ever attended. Getting whacked unexpectedly in the head for acting up did wonders for commanding respect and attention.
Good for this Dad, especially for walking with his son.
You mean some social worker or "teacher" might tell the kid that what his daddy is making him do is child abuse?
Oh, that'll never happen... /sarc
You mean some social worker or "teacher" might tell the kid that what his daddy is making him do is child abuse?
Oh, that'll never happen... /sarc
Good point. And 30 years from now, it will be newsworthy if the woman even knows who the father of the boy is!
Yeah, but this guy doesn’t want to take a point-blank apple core. :-)
A LESSON learned.
>> Good for this Dad, especially for walking with his son.
Who’s knows, maybe the kid’s guardian angel really did throw the apple core.
That is what I am thinking, too.
The coin kids trade in is the attention of those whom they respect or admire.
“and we were THANKFUL!”
Liberal scumbags won’t like this at ALL!
>> Liberal scumbags won’t like this at ALL!
LOL, I was thinking the same thing.
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