A former co-worker of mine is a prime example. She was fired last week for, among other reasons, excessive absences.
Her son just started college at U. Maryland, College Park. She drives him to school. She keeps saying that the train drops him off just 1/4 mile from class, but he doesn't want to walk if it's hot or it's cold or it's raining.
Used to be you had a school “bus stop” where a bunch of school kids would WALK (insert loud GASP) to the bus stop and therefore the bus could EFFICIENTLY pick up several children at once.
Now children are driven down their driveways waiting for school in their parents heated/air conditioned vans with dvds playing in the back AND
the bus stops at EVERY driveway. I watched in horror as a school bus literally stopped at EVERY DRIVEWAY on a residential street, for MIDDLE SCHOOL students who were perfectly capable of walking more than ten steps to the next driveway or heaven forbid a few yards to an actual BUS STOP!!
Then they have bus matrons and children who are not waiting to be picked up. The bus has to stop, honk several times the matron gets out and personally walks up the driveway to give said child a celebrity style escort. The child slowly saunters out of the house making a chain of cars wait behind the bus as mom, in her p.j.s waves and kisses Junior as though he’s off to Fallujah.
No wonder why these kids today are so pampered, coddled and entitled.