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Why Can't She Walk to School? (Only 13% of kids walk to school in 2009)
New York Times ^ | September 13, 2009 | Jan Hoffman

Posted on 09/14/2009 7:40:44 AM PDT by Arec Barrwin

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1 posted on 09/14/2009 7:40:45 AM PDT by Arec Barrwin
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To: Arec Barrwin

My kids walk — with me or my wife.

Sorry, it’s not safe anymore.


2 posted on 09/14/2009 7:41:54 AM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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To: Arec Barrwin

This aint the 70’s anymore...

My daughter walks to school...with me...and my .357.


3 posted on 09/14/2009 7:43:05 AM PDT by Crim
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To: Arec Barrwin

Traffic. If my kids went to school, it wouldn’t be safe for them to walk to the elementary school just across the road from our subdivision. I nearly got killed trying to walk over there to vote. Now I drive my big van less than 1/2 mile for elections.


4 posted on 09/14/2009 7:45:00 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("This is our duty: to zot their sorry arses into the next time zone." ~ Admin Mod)
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To: Arec Barrwin

Geez ... I walked to school Every day from KINDERGARTEN til 7th Grade, when I moved to an place where school was 12 miles AWAY!!

And the cute little blonde walker and to her mother I say... GOOD FOR YOU.


5 posted on 09/14/2009 7:45:32 AM PDT by gwilhelm56 (If Policy disagreement is RACISM, You are NOT READY to have a MINORITY as President.)
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To: Arec Barrwin

I’ve never been on a school bus, and I’m thirty-something. Homeschooling advantage #795.


6 posted on 09/14/2009 7:46:42 AM PDT by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast
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To: Arec Barrwin
I walked about a half-mile to school, even in below zero weather.

During the cold weather Mom always made sure I at least had a bowl of hot oatmeal under my belt...but walking 1/2 mile with that stuff running down my leg was no fun.

7 posted on 09/14/2009 7:47:29 AM PDT by capt. norm (Never underestimate the power of very stupid people in large groups.)
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I walked to school every day from First grade on, until I got a car. But times are different. In all those years I was never even approached by a stranger. Now, the consequences are so dire, it’s just not worth it.


8 posted on 09/14/2009 7:47:57 AM PDT by Republic of Texas (Socialism Always Fails)
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To: Arec Barrwin

I don’t like it, but it’s a sad reality.
Until Rule of Law is re-established, it isn’t safe.


9 posted on 09/14/2009 7:48:13 AM PDT by Nevermore (...just a typical cracker, clinging to my Constitutional rights...)
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To: capt. norm

Through 4 feet of snow, 6 miles, 1 pair of shoes for three kids...uphill in both directions.


10 posted on 09/14/2009 7:50:34 AM PDT by swain_forkbeard (Rationality may not be sufficient, but it is necessary.)
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She lives only a block and a half from school. Yet she walks by older children waiting with parents for buses to the same school.

From a pure safety perspective, I won't second-guess parents who want their kids to ride a bus.

But I'm calling BS on part of this story. When I was a kid, I had to live 2 miles from the school in order to be allowed on the bus. I couldn't take the bus. My neighbor could, because he lived that much further away (about 100 feet).

Now, I know times are different, and I know cities are different, but in these times of tight budgets, are they really having school buses take kids "a block and a half"????

11 posted on 09/14/2009 7:50:47 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Play the Race Card -- lose the game.)
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To: capt. norm

Uphill!

Both ways!!!


12 posted on 09/14/2009 7:51:13 AM PDT by Haiku Guy (If You have a Right / To the Service I provide / I must be a Slave)
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To: capt. norm

You made me spew!!!!!!!!!!!


13 posted on 09/14/2009 7:51:13 AM PDT by netmilsmom (Psalm 109:8 - Let his days be few; and let another take his office)
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To: capt. norm

Uphill!

Both ways!!!


14 posted on 09/14/2009 7:51:19 AM PDT by Haiku Guy (If You have a Right / To the Service I provide / I must be a Slave)
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To: Arec Barrwin

Uhh Because the G*D Damned courts and liberals let perverts, rapist and criminal run free. I would not let my teenagers walk to school in today’s America.


15 posted on 09/14/2009 7:51:40 AM PDT by US Navy Vet
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To: swain_forkbeard

...”.uphill in both directions.”

sounds like a tower of babel!

you must be in heaven by now


16 posted on 09/14/2009 7:51:49 AM PDT by George from New England (escaped CT 2006; now living north of Tampa Bay)
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To: Arec Barrwin

I usually rode my bike, does that count?


17 posted on 09/14/2009 7:52:12 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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To: Arec Barrwin

My son just started walking this year as we live next door to the middle school while his elementary was several miles away.

He loves being able to have the independence.

And if you look at the statistics, kidnappings & child abductions are the same now as they were 30 years ago. We just have 24 hour news & helicopter parenting nowadays.

But, I don’t blame parents for feeling insecure seeing what the media does to us.


18 posted on 09/14/2009 7:52:23 AM PDT by KosmicKitty (WARNING: Hormonally crazed woman ahead!!)
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To: Arec Barrwin

Forced busing in the South killed off most walking to school.


19 posted on 09/14/2009 7:52:31 AM PDT by wardaddy (Bro and his czars...we have tar, feathers and rails waiting...and a road outta town..)
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To: Arec Barrwin

Drop the concealed carry age to six? I know, I know...

Colonel, USAFR


20 posted on 09/14/2009 7:53:05 AM PDT by jagusafr (Kill the red lizard, Lord! - nod to C.S. Lewis)
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