I lived upstate New York for 8th and 9th grades back in the 60’s. 30 min walk to school...at least 2 miles. I would freeze in winter, never got a ride to school. We would walk to school in a gaggle, we would always wait along the route, the gaggle would grow as the guy who lived the furthest arrived and we joined in. Don’t ever remember a snow day but remember walking through 6 inches of snow and still snowing. I remember class rooms had to have a coat and boot area because once you were at school you had to take off your arctic gear, could not fit into a locker.
I walked or rode my bike. Sad that kids can’t be more independent.
From the Wikipedia synopsis..
"Meanwhile, back within the town limits a news report states that the parents are most likely to abduct their own children. Unable to think of any reasonable solution, they force all their children from the city, to avoid putting their children in danger of being kidnapped by their own parents."
Have these people never heard of a walking school bus?
Perhaps the reason so many parents are afraid of their children being abducted is because that they are no longer married to the child’s other biological parent.
The wife’s inner-city school district provides busses if you live 3 CITY BLOCKS AWAY from the school.
Growing up, you had to be OVER 1 Mile away to get a bus.
Plus we could stop, pick berries, cherries, oranges, avocados, get pies from Mrs so and so, chickens and worked sometimes helping farmer John irrigate or prune, or clean out the barn for free stable fees....life in school was a trade and hard work. We could care less about the walk. People who rode the buses were considered "wimps" and received no benefits of meeting and getting to know neighbors personal for miles around
True, it's more dangerous and that is absoloutely a sad tragedy. After walking or gettting home, I had brothers and sisters to care for, cook the meal or help one of my sisters, go to my job until 1700( 5:00pm unless there was extra work, went to clubs, went surfing for 3-4 hours than did homework and PARTIED on Friday only to work on the weekends....and this was only the 60's and part of the early 70's!
Do I have sympathy, empathy of care about the "wimps." No. As my peers in the military used to so faithfully remind me when some pooor sap complained about latrine duty or eating out of a c-rat( just new to MRE's at the time),"XIN LOI jerkwad...DEAL WITH IT!"
And don't get me started about the parents that would spoil the dickens out of their kids buying then new cars and their insurance....I understand they wanted the best for their children but I saw way to many accidents and irresponsible behavior...by the time these kids( not all) hit college, they's get divorced for their first love, develop a drug problem and just never understoood the concept of when some of us " poor mentally retarded bum punk a^^ kids that walked, networked and helped each other...it WASN'T community organizing...the community was organized around those that worked, the kids and teens that helped gramp and grandma Jones prime the pump and fix their tractor when they couldn't anymore, painted thier home, fixed the barn and stables, groomed their horses fed their stock, weeded and harvested the gardens, cleaned their homes and fixed their meals they way we remembered them one day years ago from cleaning our diapers, and teaching us valuable lessons throught life.
We held their hands until death NEVER thinking we'd get a penny...it was just something we were taught and learned. We were friends, neighbors and we knew, you give, you get. thus endeth my lecture on the days when life was just life. It was hard, but it was harder before and we had it real easy comparatively than most.
God bless ya'll and God please do not forget all the good people that still love, pray, selflessly care for each other and always put God, Family and country first.
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.