Posted on 01/15/2015 5:02:57 AM PST by ConservativeInPA
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The problem in both areas is the old apartment complexes built after WWII. Now filled with people who couldn’t touch owning the housing stock with a ten-foot pole.
Most of Maryland has become a Sanctuary for illegals. When they first came here in droves, they looked for work and drove very slowly so as not to be deported. Lately, let’s say since Obama took office, they have become “entitled” — and can’t be traced if they do a crime, because they are undocumented. This fact is not lost on them.
That's likely all true. As a conservative, though, do you think CPS and the cops should show up if parents decide to let their kids walk alone within a mile of their own home?
I don’t know how so many conservatives here live in lib areas
I self segregated
I hate getting stuck behind a school bus when kids are getting dropped off after school. The bus stops every 100 yards no matter how old the kids are. There’s no reason for bus stops to be so close together. Many kids would benefit from a daily walk to and from the bus stop.
Is it too late to sue my parents for allowing me to play unsupervised in our neighborhood, out of their sight?
The buses in our little town run in shifts and pick up the kindergarteners first at about 7 no matter how cold it is.
The problem with all these nutty parental charges is cell phones. Batty women of all ages feel they cause someone a problem. Batty women and cell phones should be outlawed.
The “manosphere” has a phrase for that:
“Alpha fux and Beta bucks”
(in their youth they go for all the bad boys, then when they are older and used up, they try to secure the boring, responsible guy with the decent job and money, usually demanding MORE from the beta despite that they gave it away for free to the alpha when they were in their prime)
There’s a practical limit as to how far they expected children to walk to school even back to the depression era.
That was typically three miles even for rural schools and that’s a long damned way for a kid that age to walk mostly for the length of time involved. An hour walk is a long time for a kid, even farm boys.
I can remember my parents who were rural pre-depression era kids and they griped about having to walk close to two miles to the main road to catch the bus to the school which was another 10 miles or so from the pickup point. But five miles is far even back then.
Good call. I wouldn’t let my kids out at age 10 and 6 even there. Too close to Georgia Ave (enough said) and the entertainment strip that draws lots of youths from elsewhere.
I think if the cops did not seek to find out if some kids roaming unsupervised had parents nearby and something had happened to the kids, the same parents would try to sue the town, the cops, and all the surrounding neighbors. Not that they would win; but with liberals, it’s always someone else’s fault. That said, the CPS involvement was over the top.
see my #57
Our family lived on a 0.58 acre lot 15 minutes (by car) from downtown on the main highway between a city of 250K and the ONLY boat to the mainland. In the ‘70s.
BTW, I just did a mapquest search, and the SHORTEST route was 5.66 KM (3.53 miles), and it added a 100 foot hill up and down in 3/4 mile to the route.
Yup
Not saying it would be typical.
But reach back further. I’m not talking automobile age which ironically seems to have led to people shrinking the acceptable walking distance.
There were stories of this. Even a legendary story of a “hero girl” who died in a blizzard protecting her younger siblings, which was a long, long way from home to school as it was.
Self reliance arrived early.
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