Posted on 09/14/2009 7:40:44 AM PDT by Arec Barrwin
September 13, 2009 Why Can’t She Walk to School? By JAN HOFFMAN
TO get to school, the child leaves home by herself, proudly walking down the boulevard in a suburb of a small city in upstate New York. The crossing guard helps her at the intersection. 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.
She is 7, a second-grader, and her mother, Katie, hears the raised-eyebrow remarks: ‘Are you sure you want to be doing this?’ Katie said friends ask.
‘She’s just so pretty. She’s just so ... blond.’ A friend said, ‘I heard that Jaycee Dugard story and I thought of your daughter.’ And they say, ‘I’d never do that with my kid: I wouldn’t trust my kid with the street,’ said Katie, a stay-at-home mother, who asked that her full identity be withheld to protect her children.
Katie, too, is tormented by the abduction monsters embedded in modern parenting. Yet she wants to encourage her daughter’s independence. Somehow, walking to school has become a political act when it’s this uncommon, she said. Somebody has to be first.
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I kind of think the Adam Walsh abduction/murder was when a lot of people started being concerned about child abductions. Certainly he wasn’t the first, but it’s the first one I recall making big national news over a long period of time. I do recall it making me more vigilant when I had my kids at the store, because it brought home the fact that there WERE crazies out there who would take children.
You can thank Dwight David Eisenhower for that one!
ANSWER: The druggies, like the sex perverts can only perpetuate an ever increasing demand for their filth by molesting the minds and bodies of the young ones.
Trouble is, many public schools now come complete with druggies and sex perverts on the staff and in the student body.
I’ll thank him next time I see him!
So then, I guess you might as well let them walk to school since they are going to get molested either way....
Good Idea. Follow me, I’m in the Lord’s Army...we never lose!
Didn't your mama ever teach you not to brag?
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