In Kansas City two depraved men took a girl waiting alone in front of her house for the school bus. They did unspeakable things and then murdered her. My kid never waited alone for the bus. You just can’t do it anymore.
I roamed all over creation as a child growing up 50 years ago. The whole city was my backyard. Unfortunately I could never allow my children that sort of freedom growing up. The country has changed and not for the better.
Of course I also was allowed to bring my hunting rifle to school during deer season, but that is a whole other conversation.
When we first moved to Cary, NC, we lived on the edge of town, I rode the bus. Then the rule was the bus stopped about every mile, idea being no kid had to walk more than a half mile. Nowadays my truck gets behind a school bus, they are big chauffered limos and stop at every house.
There they unload a few pudgy little scudders who no doubt waddled in to sit on their butts and eat chips and play video games.
yldstrk, sorry as I can be about that young girl, but extrapolating from that to every kid in America is an over-reach I think.
It happened back then, too.
We just did not have 24/7/365/everywhere media to tell us about all the incidents.