Posted on 09/14/2009 7:40:44 AM PDT by Arec Barrwin
So terribly sad that our children can’t walk to school, to the store, to a friends house...all the places we went when we were young. I blame the permissive society, and by that I mean permitting perverts to live among us. Many years ago perverts just disappeared after they were found out...and since there is no such thing as a real “life sentence” anymore it would be a good thing if this started happening again. JMHO!
One mile over and two miles back...
I think if I lived in a place where my kids couldn’t walk to school, I’d move...
One mile over and two miles back...
I think if I lived in a place where my kids couldn’t walk to school, I’d move...
I know a few districts in PA where the kids still walk (because courts have ruled the local districts must pay the cost for transporting private and parochial school students too...so they don’t transport anybody as a way of getting around that) Well, okay...most don’t actually walk, they have Soccer Mom Caravan Traffic Jams at 8:15 in the morning.
true
In our city of 2.2 miles, the parents had to fight to keep crossing guards for the kids.
I’m a homeschooling mom and fought with them. We have no sidewalks and people drive like maniacs. AND we’ve had a couple kids approached by “adults”.
If my kids walked to the school, I’d be walking with them.
Yep. Same with the climate and natural disasters although the MSM got us all to think things are so much worse than they ever were before in history.
I suspect that most parents have had no abductions in their neighborhoods ever but think their child will be the first.
The inevitable result of Big Brother on people's psyche's.
And we ate dirt, and we were thankful for the dirt.
I walked about 1/2 mile to school from first to sixth grade unless it was pouring. I also rode my bike where we just stuck them in the rack. Didn’t need locks at all. The bike was always there after school. We never even thought about them getting stolen.
The fun part was there were always several kids walking along together.
I can also vouch that it's possible to do things, like throwing rocks at another kid, that gets you pops...in the 2nd grade!
It's sad how the world has changed...and NOT for the better!
When we lived a block and a half from our elementary school, our children who attended there WALKED sometimes alone and sometimes with me. There were some parents who thought I was crazy and/or neglectful. But somehow the children survived. It helped teach our older children a bit of responsibility because they had to make sure the younger ones were okay. And it taught the younger ones that they shouldn’t necessarily rely on their older siblings who may be all about them. hah!
Agreed that it is sad. My own experience was walking or riding a bike with an exception for inclement weather rides from carpool arrangements. K-6 the distance was about 5 blocks, 7-9 distance was about a mile, 10-11 was about 9 blocks (occasional rides w/friends w/cars), senior year about 3 blocks. K-11 town size was around 14k in southern KS, senior year was in a small town of about 2k in northern OK. Never rode a school bus except for special events like band trips, didn’t have my own car until late in my senior year.
Contrast to my children’s experience of never walking to school from our suburban neighborhood because the school was some distance away from the neighborhood and no sidewalks existed that would allow them to walk. There is something that is missed when children don’t walk to school.
About the only thing government is really supposed to do is “protect the people”. But government has failed at that — possibly because government is so busy doing a gajillion other things.
Yup.
Once again the left's compassion is paid for with the lives of innocent children, and the imposition of additional costs on society. Imagine how much less gasoline would be used each day if we didn't have to crank up millions of big yellow buses.
Parents should be responsible for getting their own kids
to school: Get rid of school buses. I took my kids to school from K to highschool.
With nothing but a turnip sandwich for lunch...
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