Posted on 04/02/2016 6:54:01 AM PDT by Rebelbase
JASPER, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee mother faces child neglect charges after deputies say she made her daughters walk to school.
The Chattanooga Times Free-Press reports that 32-year-old Lisa Marie Palmer was charged after authorities found her driving ahead of her daughters as she made them walk to school.
Marion County sheriff’s Deputy Chris Ladd, who spotted the two girls, says it appeared Palmer was driving ahead of her children and allowing them to catch up to her car until the kids reached the school.
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I told my son that story. He looked at me and said, "Oh, that's why you didn't graduate - got tired of walking."
In his bare feet in the snow. All parents of the boomer generation had that same trek to school.
All the Moms??
My Mom didn’t run around in a nightie.
In our world in the 50’s in was refered to a house coat or something like that
That’s why we have so many snowflakes in America.
I wonder how far the kids live from the school. It doesn’t say.
Neglect? Hardly. She was driving along near them. They were supervised the whole way. No-one was going to kidnap them etc. Case closed.
I'm scared of cows right now. A thousand pounds of doin' what they feel like. Hats off to kids who can handle them like they were poodles, and I do know a few.
Well, not all of them. I started kindergarten in 1951. My mother didn't even have a drivers' license until 1963, and my Dad left for work before I was out of my jammies.
The only people who rode the school bus were kids who lived more than two miles from the school. I was only about a mile and a half, and with the exception of one very bad snowstorm in 1964 (I was a senior in high school by then) I always walked. Never even questioned it.
Same for all my buddies. We walked to school together until one of the boys got an old beater car in the spring of my senior year.
If it was a 10 mile stomp through a muddy swamp with a backpack full of rocks, then maybe. Good-grief I used to walk all over my neighborhood by myself when I was a child ( younger than 10.) I had to walk to a bus stop that was not in front of my house. My 12 year old and 9 year old like to fight in the car. On occasion I have had enough and pulled the car over to let them walk home ( about 1/4 of a mile.)
Geez, do you dummies take everything soooooooo literally? Yes, I literally meant every single mom - and that was internationally, btw - wore nighties driving their kids to school. It was a scandal for many years until the pc 1980s came along.
And yes, let’s forget about using an amusing word like ‘nightie’ over a dull word like ‘housecoat.’
I walked home, on occasion, from school when I was less than seven, more than a mile, crossing some heavily trafficked roads.
Ok, Oldasrocks, that's one heck of a story. I was born, in the early '50s, in rural Indiana, and such a tale seems barely feasible in that era. Were you born in the '40s or to a Amish family?
Just curious..
Incidentally, this was in MA :)
Ha! You were lucky. We lived for three months in a brown paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six o’clock in the morning, clean the bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down mill for fourteen hours a day week in-week out. When we got home, out Dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt!
So, after all that, they charged him with child neglect???
“...Lisa Marie Palmer of Chicken Dave Road...”
You can’t make this stuff up.
Correctomundo. “Housecoat” went over the nightie. Mumsie wouldn’t be seen in her flimsy baby doll...that was reserved for Pop.
...in a snowstorm...every day of the year.
The road is a busy one with no sidewalks and it was foggy that day. This was about the safety of the children not about them having to walk to school. For more details read this article,
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