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Fuel Costs May Force Some Kids To Walk
The Washington Post ^ | June 23, 2008 | Daniel de Vise

Posted on 06/23/2008 6:32:36 AM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner

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To: socialismisinsidious

You had feet?


21 posted on 06/23/2008 6:54:21 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Voting conservative isn't for the faint of heart.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS THEN AND NOW:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0lR1KQq2-U


22 posted on 06/23/2008 6:55:45 AM PDT by Dick Bachert
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To: Dick Bachert

Excellent post. Here in Indy there was an all black highschool years ago. The black community took great pride in it.

It is gone now.


23 posted on 06/23/2008 6:56:55 AM PDT by dforest (I had almost forgotten that McCain is the nominee. Too bad I was reminded.)
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To: wendy1946

Maybe you got recess too.

That is cut out now.


24 posted on 06/23/2008 6:58:29 AM PDT by Southerngl
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To: indylindy

Re: “liberal answers have created problems that didn’t exist before.”

I assert, and haven’t been offered a viable counter example, that there is no problem we face today that isn’t the result of, or been exacerbated by, some liberal policy.

That being said - you all think it’s great that kids are going to be walking more,

but this is what the left has in store for ALL of us. Their policies are an indirect effort to control your consumption and ability to travel.


25 posted on 06/23/2008 6:58:42 AM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: CholeraJoe

Your idea wouldn’t be so bad if the fat bureaucrats who take all the dough were walking too? Or how bout the good old days when you could walk to school somewhat safely without porn-fueled middle aged men looking to score with a kid?


26 posted on 06/23/2008 6:59:27 AM PDT by applpie
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To: Dick Bachert

That should have been good, except I found myself wandering off like I did when my teachers showed me a film in class.

:o)


27 posted on 06/23/2008 7:00:43 AM PDT by Southerngl
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To: applpie

Your idea wouldn’t be so bad if the fat bureaucrats who take all the dough were walking too? Or how bout the good old days when you could walk to school somewhat safely without porn-fueled middle aged men looking to score with a kid?

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Yep. My kids wouldn’t walk to school like I did, never.

I walked through a patch of woods to get to the road to walk to school. At 9, I was in charge of four or five of the younger ones in the complex and delivered them to their doors.

Not that we didn’t have serial killers back then, but it certainly wasn’t like what it is today. And people actually got involved when they saw someone struggling with a child. Quizzed them at least. Once my daughter was pitching a tantrum in a store and I carried her out kicking and screaming. It ran through my mind, why isn’t anyone stopping me?


28 posted on 06/23/2008 7:03:20 AM PDT by Southerngl
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To: Southerngl
And P.E. is out too in many schools..

The issue is not having kids walk to school (which I have no problem with in a NORMAL SAFE ENVIRONMENT, which Montgomery County most assuredly is NOT), but the fact that Montgomery County is targeting them (and their safety make their parents howl and accept new taxes, when cutting its bloated administration should be the first thing done.

29 posted on 06/23/2008 7:03:31 AM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner ("We must not forget that there is a war on and our troops are in the thick of it!"--Duncan Hunter)
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To: Coffee200am

He ain’t heavy,he’s my brother.


30 posted on 06/23/2008 7:04:35 AM PDT by 4yearlurker ("Give them Watts boys!!")
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To: MrB

I agree MrB on what the left has in mind.

They want to control our travel and communication.

Why is it that so many people are blind to that?

That said, I still have good memories of walking to school:)


31 posted on 06/23/2008 7:05:55 AM PDT by dforest (I had almost forgotten that McCain is the nominee. Too bad I was reminded.)
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To: Coffee200am
LOL

My kids Dad used to tell them how far he had to walk to school when he was a kid. They always added.......barefoot.

32 posted on 06/23/2008 7:14:58 AM PDT by BARLF
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To: Southerngl

Attention Deficit Disorder is SUCH a tragic thing.

Now take your RITILIN and lie down.


33 posted on 06/23/2008 7:17:22 AM PDT by Dick Bachert
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To: indylindy

Today in my neck of the woods, they pay adults to cross the kids.....whatever happened to older kids doing it?? I remember we did think it was an honor to be a cross guard.


34 posted on 06/23/2008 7:20:34 AM PDT by ThisLittleLightofMine
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

Never could convince my kids I walked for miles, uphill both way, in the snow.

They just didn’t buy into the concept of snow at all.


35 posted on 06/23/2008 7:24:39 AM PDT by SouthTexas (RIP Scott Kalitta)
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To: Dick Bachert

Attention Deficit Disorder is SUCH a tragic thing.

Now take your RITILIN and lie down.
****************************

Dangit. Called out again.


36 posted on 06/23/2008 7:24:44 AM PDT by Southerngl
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

I live in Montgomery County. It has a lot of sidewalks and a lot of busy streets. A child ten or up with common sense could handle walking through most of the County. I wouldn’t want the young kids out, though.

Then again, my philosophy of parenting is “if you let your kid going walking alone outside, you have a 1 in a 100,000 chance that he or she will be abducted by some freak. If you keep your child locked inside all the time, you have about a 90 percent chance he or she will grow up to be a fat dull person. Go with the odds.”


37 posted on 06/23/2008 7:27:27 AM PDT by Our man in washington
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To: BenLurkin
"Walked 2 miles to High School and back for four years in all kinds of weather"

Same here, and it didn't kill me. We didn't have a car, and if we went anywhere, we walked or we took the bus.

38 posted on 06/23/2008 7:28:36 AM PDT by mass55th
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

Funny thing. I see buses bound to and from the high school half full. By junior year, a lot of kids are driving to school and taking several friends with them, so buses are not full by any means. At least that’s the case in our school district. Maybe they should do a better job of calculating how many kids will be taking the bus and drive smaller buses.

My kids used to walk the 1/4 mile to and from their school, but now the bus picks up kids near me due to safety concerns.


39 posted on 06/23/2008 7:28:46 AM PDT by randita
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To: Our man in washington

Depends on where you’re at, I guess. I work down in the seedy part of Rockville (near the Metro) where there are few sidewalks and many shady looking characters that I wouldn’t want my kid to go anywhere near.


40 posted on 06/23/2008 7:30:13 AM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner ("We must not forget that there is a war on and our troops are in the thick of it!"--Duncan Hunter)
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