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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NYC, late 70’s, while walking down Madison Ave, in the mid sixties, I spotted two well groomed little lads about ten years of age exiting the bus. Both wearing private school blazers, gray trousers laden with huge backpacks. Both had their deluxe day planners out, puzzling out their schedules for a free day to get together. Just so damned sad to watch.
That is exactly right.
No, I grew up in Queens. Life was different in 1956.
You must be one of those Dummies referred to in #23.
“... he had to walk uphill...”
In a foot of snow. You forgot about the snow! :)
Correction Dummies in # 30
I am younger than you, but life was different even in 1976.
“Oh what a silly fuss, oh what a bunch of wimpy snowflakes, etc. etc.”
Well, also what a bunch of over-legislated society. Because a problem appeared in the past, people would think let’s ban it, and the wrongdoers would automatically flee. Well not only didn’t they always automatically flee, but things ended up getting banned that didn’t always need to get banned.
Also a whole nother worm can is why do we have the public school system we do. Some people would tell you that just to send your children there, whether walking or on a bus or on roller skates, is abuse...
my guess is that you are on the money. the police don’t like to get involved with family issues unless they feel there is no choice. my guess real young kids under the age of ten. a real dangerous road and a call into 911 by a concerned civilian. this is the type of thing where if IU was a cop responding I would try to give just a warning but if there were multiple calls over the year or the person became angry with the cop and escalated the encounter the cop would of felt he had no choice.
Funny, too, in a way. Those are the kind of kids you see on Chopped Junior (a cooking show featuring rich kids) and you just want to slap them upside the head!
“My father says he walked five miles to school, both going to school and coming home he had to walk uphill.”
Ha! That’s nothing! There were a number of us that had to walk five miles uphill both ways, but during blizzards, we also had to push the school bus through the snow so those kids could make it too.
Thank you! I actually saw them perform this live in NYC in the late 70s. I recently read that it was originally from Marty Feldman’s British tv show which the Pythons wrote for.
It’s one of my favorites.
Oh yeah? Mine had to do it barefoot and in the snow too!
“My father says he walked five miles to school, both going to school and coming home he had to walk uphill.”
That’s one of the exact stories about him as a 6 year old my best friend’s father used to tell us .
Except sometimes the snow was so deep, the only thing visible was the tip of his cigar.
My father in law had to do that. Turns out he got kicked off the bus for fooling around.
One winter day in high school, I missed the last city bus, so I bulked up the clothes a bit and commenced to walking 7 miles to school. Got there around 10:30. Nobody said a word.
THE KIDS MISSED THE BUS, ...... She was well within her rights. The law needs to go look itself in the mirror. The lady needs to homeschool her kids.
What’s a school bus?
OY, these people must be idiots. Now I know why the other poster said the father is lucky he wasn’t shot. Which he most certainly is.
It sounds like you feel you are above “us dummies” but Jims advise may do you good here and I am sure at home as you must be a real dream to have around the house.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3415730/posts
I walked about a mile to school starting in first grade,and no one thought my mother was a criminal. I see mothers walking nine year olds to the bus stop.
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