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How old are people here?

Started by Vic99, April 24, 2014, 04:32:19 PM

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mcbobbo

#120
May 14, 2014, 11:23:39 AM
Quote from: Panjumanju;749328I think it holds true. Today it's just slipped on an uncleared sidewalk and smashed your ipad with all the pdfs on it. Times haven't changed that much. Kids are still walking to school. And slipping. And destroying their things by accident.

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We started the oldest off as a walker.  It was only two blocks to school.  Still the helicopter crowd looked down their noses at us.  His current elementary school forbids walking outright.

Crazy, right?
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Haffrung

#121
May 14, 2014, 11:27:46 AM
Quote from: mcbobbo;749330We started the oldest off as a walker.  It was only two blocks to school.  Still the helicopter crowd looked down their noses at us.  His current elementary school forbids walking outright.

Crazy, right?

Madness. If one had deep pockets, it would almost be worth it to bring a lawsuit against the school board: get some health experts to testify about the importance of exercise to young children, and how banning walking puts a child's health at risk.
 

Panjumanju

#122
May 14, 2014, 11:33:32 AM
Quote from: mcbobbo;749330We started the oldest off as a walker.  It was only two blocks to school.  Still the helicopter crowd looked down their noses at us.  His current elementary school forbids walking outright.

Crazy, right?

That is insane. Just. Outright. Insane. When you're talking two blocks, the potential bullying and/or horseplay on the bus is *more* dangerous. Bussing it two blocks wastes, gas, time - driver's time, student's time, schools time - and...I'm reaching a boiling point, here...I just can't believe this.

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mcbobbo

#123
May 14, 2014, 11:40:07 AM
Quote from: Haffrung;749332Madness. If one had deep pockets, it would almost be worth it to bring a lawsuit against the school board: get some health experts to testify about the importance of exercise to young children, and how banning walking puts a child's health at risk.

Ha, that reminds me.  They took recess off the schedule permanently and replaced it with Study Hall.  He is in sixth grade now, so it's only one grade early, but the poor boy gets almost zero exercise at school now.
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3rik

#124
May 14, 2014, 07:57:10 PM
Quote from: mcbobbo;749330We started the oldest off as a walker.  It was only two blocks to school.  Still the helicopter crowd looked down their noses at us.  His current elementary school forbids walking outright.

Crazy, right?
You're kidding, right? I didn't think a school would have anything to say about your mode of transport...

Would a bicycle be acceptable? Or is that too dangerous regarding traffic?
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#125
May 16, 2014, 11:11:34 PM
Quite the fucked-up country you've got there.

Over here in the third-world, kids stay up till after midnight, are welcome at restaurants and bars alike, walk or go to school by themselves as a rule, and start drinking socially with the family in their early teens.
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#126
May 17, 2014, 01:16:00 AM
Jesus Christ.  When I was a kid, they wouldn't even consider a bus for anyone living within a mile of school.  Of course you walked to school.  That was how it worked.
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#127
May 17, 2014, 04:06:38 AM
Quote from: RPGPundit;749900Quite the fucked-up country you've got there.

Over here in the third-world, kids stay up till after midnight, are welcome at restaurants and bars alike, walk or go to school by themselves as a rule, and start drinking socially with the family in their early teens.

It's like if you treat your children with respect and let them learn from their own mistakes, they can sort out their own shit! A shockingly revolutionary idea, that too many parents seem to have forgotten from their own childhoods.

(I didn't walk bus to secondary school, because my secondary school was about seven miles away. My parents freaked the hell out the first time I walked home from primary school on my own, but I was only eight and it involved crossing the main road through our village, twice.)
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#128
May 17, 2014, 01:53:55 PM
Quote from: Ravenswing;749908Jesus Christ.  When I was a kid, they wouldn't even consider a bus for anyone living within a mile of school.  Of course you walked to school.  That was how it worked.

Here if you live within a mile of the school, they do not provide transportation.
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#129
May 17, 2014, 04:59:44 PM
Quote from: Ravenswing;749908When I was a kid, they wouldn't even consider a bus for anyone living within a mile of school.  Of course you walked to school.  That was how it worked.
This is my memory, too.
I actually liked walking. In High School, they provided a bus to our area, but the only time I took it was when it was raining.
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#130
May 17, 2014, 05:29:53 PM
The law in Ohio is the student has to be at least 2 miles away from the school before the school is required to have school transportation.

3rik

#131
May 17, 2014, 08:11:48 PM
Quote from: ptingler;749983The law in Ohio is the student has to be at least 2 miles away from the school before the school is required to have school transportation.
You can easily travel two miles by bicycle, provided the infrastructure makes it possible. We used to do all our mid-distance travelling on bicycle.
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#132
May 17, 2014, 08:22:41 PM
Quote from: mcbobbo;749336Ha, that reminds me.  They took recess off the schedule permanently and replaced it with Study Hall.  He is in sixth grade now, so it's only one grade early, but the poor boy gets almost zero exercise at school now.
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#133
May 17, 2014, 09:25:55 PM
Quote from: Lynn;749961Here if you live within a mile of the school, they do not provide transportation.

My son's school doesn't have a bus that comes here. We live about a third of a mile from the school. He walks. I go with him though, but he's like, 8 and he has to cross several busy streets to get there.
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