Originally Posted by
HawkOwl
This appalling lack of empathy for those who have physical problems is altogether too common. She may have been, as you assume, a perfectly healthy but lazy person. She could also have been suffering from any number of debilitating problems that make even that short journey torture and tests the limits of her physical and mental ability. You don't know. Until you do be a human being.
I saw nothing wrong with the post as posted. As he said, he saw nothing wrong with her, and he's just reporting an observation. OTOH- had he engaged her about this, my attitude would reverse, and to me he'd be on par with well meaning(?) folks who insisting on reminding me about bike helmets.
BTW- I'm somewhat, but not totally surprised that they offer bus service to someone living so close. IME there have always been "minimum distance" rules for pickup and delivery by school bu. OTOH there have long been schools that banned children form bicycling to school, now I know of a school that bans walking to school, children must go by school bus, or be escorted by a guardian in the family car. I doubt they enforce this when kids are coming in, but they don't release kids at the end of the day.