In article <5seoi15j3isi79q9r8ehipre8ev72oge04@4ax.com>,
"Clark W. Griswold, Jr." wrote:
> sechumlib wrote:
>
> >Well, you have to be a little careful not to shift so much of it to the
> >morning hours that young school kids have to walk to school in the dark,
> >on busy roads not equipped with sidewalks.
>
>
> Don't know about your neighborhood, but around here the "kids walking to
> school"
> species has long since gone extinct. It blows my mind at the number of kids
> who
> get in the family vehicle at one end of the neighborhood and get dropped off
> at
> the school at the other end. And that's grade & middle school. Walk to the
> high
> school down the street? ha! I think it must now be a mandatory requirement to
> have a car before you are allowed to attend high school.
I live two blocks from the elementary and middle schools. My kids get
bused. Did I mention that they have to cross a five lane state highway
to get to school? Did I mention that the school system no longer hires a
crossing guard? Did I mention that on two occasions, when there was a
crossing guard, I personally witnessed the crossing guard escape with
her life after almost being run over by drivers going 50 mph in a 20 mph
zone? |