In rural Georgia, a 10-year-old boy left home and walked a mile down the road to another town, where a concerned citizen called law enforcement. Deputies then arrested the boy’s mother, igniting a debate about parental rights and potential government overreach.
I’m with you on this one, the situation would be almost comical, if it weren’t so pathetic. When I was really young (Grades 1-3), busybodies in my neighbourhood petitioned for buses to be started because of ‘hazardous traffic’ caused by the expansion of a nearby arterial route. The irony being that the road which was being rebuilt (widened) was not in between the neighbourhood and school, but on the the very far bordering edge, and would not be crossed by any students on their way to school.
So it was that I, and dozens of others, started getting bussed 5 blocks to school ‘for safety reasons’. I now know people whose houses border the field adjacent to the school at which their children attend, who drive them to the front doors every single day.
I’m with you on this one, the situation would be almost comical, if it weren’t so pathetic. When I was really young (Grades 1-3), busybodies in my neighbourhood petitioned for buses to be started because of ‘hazardous traffic’ caused by the expansion of a nearby arterial route. The irony being that the road which was being rebuilt (widened) was not in between the neighbourhood and school, but on the the very far bordering edge, and would not be crossed by any students on their way to school.
So it was that I, and dozens of others, started getting bussed 5 blocks to school ‘for safety reasons’. I now know people whose houses border the field adjacent to the school at which their children attend, who drive them to the front doors every single day.