Originally Posted by
rachel120
I really hate to be one of those "uphill, in the snow, both ways" people, but when I was going to school the buses wouldn't pick up anyone who lived less than one mile from the school, hardly anyone's parents weren't working and could drive a kid, there were no crossing guards...and yet we survived. Why do today's little precious snowflakes need crossing guards and buses just a few blocks from the school and all this chauffeuring?
I'm a parent, and I know a lot of parents. This is a dilemma. On the one hand, I don't think that the kids need chauffeuring. On the other hand, it's not my call if it's not my kids.
As for crossing guards, the kids don't need them, but the adults driving cars do. A crossing guard is basically a traffic cop without a badge. My commute goes through one intersection that kids cross on the way to school. Having seen how people drive through that intersection, it needs a crossing guard.