You all forgot about the baked potatoes! That’s right! Everybody who had to walk through 5 feet of snow, uphill, to go to school had to carry a hot, baked potato. It kept their hands warm, and served as breakfast once the kids got to school. My 5th grade teacher told me that’s how it was.:)
That’s the part that’s so dumb about the article. It doesn’t state the ages of the kids. If they were 5-6 year old kids, than I’d have to say yes, that’s way too much to expect of kids that little. Give a couple of years and it’s a different story.
If they’re little kids and that resistant to going to school, I’d be wanting to know what’s going on. Something’s likely to be amiss at school. Even older kids will hang back when they’re dealing with something uncomfortable. Kids don’t usually hate school without a reason.
Were they up too late the night before so that they had difficulty moving in the morning?
At least however, the parents didn’t just shove them out the door on their own. One of them attended the kids to make sure they arrived.
Even if a parent was walking with them, there’s no guarantee that they’d be of any use in an emergency. The parent could have been injured as well!
And what is ‘drug paraphernalia’? A pot pipe? Roach clips? Insulin needles? Cigarette rolling papers? Crack pipe? what?
Without verifiable information, this smacks loudly of a couple of small time keystone cops looking to trouble people they simply don’t like. I’ve seen WAY too much of that in my time.
And that’s what I’m going to think is going on. Did one of the teenage girls accuse the cops son of advances?
Small southern town with lots of prejudice still exist.
People are innocent until proven guilty, and then you even have to examine the ‘proof’.