Skid Roper Posted May 30, 2014 Share Posted May 30, 2014 http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/05/29/hawaii-man-gets-probation-for-making-kid-walk-1-mile-judge-calls-it-old-school/ How ridiculous. I walked home from school every day up until I got a driver's license, never once thinking it was punishment and most of the time carrying a book bag, football pads and a tenor saxophone. Uphill both ways if I remember right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Scatterbrain Posted May 30, 2014 Share Posted May 30, 2014 I don't know what the policy is now, but back in the 80's my school district could require kids to walk up to a mile to a pickup point. I doubt that is true any more, because I occasionally get stuck behind a bus that stops at each house in a row of five or six that are side by side. The kids are standing in their respective driveways and talking to one another. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruff Posted May 30, 2014 Share Posted May 30, 2014 We need to start slapping these Judges upside the head. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tascosa, SASS# 24838 Posted May 30, 2014 Share Posted May 30, 2014 I usually walked a mile and a half from where the bus dropped me off from school. And at times I walked a mile and a half in the mornings to where the bus picked us kiddos up! Cold, Hot, snow.... we walked if dad couldnt take me. I now realize how abused I was as a kid... even got a spanking if I was bad... and oh was I a handful. I was just glad my dad didnt take me out. The only harm I got out of it was making me a man and accept responsibilities. Tascosa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Sage, SASS #49891 Life Posted May 30, 2014 Share Posted May 30, 2014 When I was in high school, I used to walk 2 miles everyday to & from school. I was usually pretty tired on the going home walk as it was always after football, wrestling or baseball practice. If I was the parent in this situation I don't think I'd be as contrite as this father. Today government is too intrusive in parenting!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackwater 53393 Posted May 30, 2014 Share Posted May 30, 2014 In the '50s and '60s when I went to school, you couldn't even ride the bus if you lived within a mile and a half as the crow flies from school. If you rode the bus, you walked to the end of the street or to a bus stop up to a quarter of a mile away! Sometimes on rainy days one of my parents would give me and my sister a ride to school, but we had rain coats and we used them. One township that I lived in, you walked from my house down to the power line right of way, (about 200 yards) walked a mile along the power lines and a half a mile on a sidewalk along a four lane state highway! The sidewalk went over a bridge that transversed the New Jersey Turnpike. We never thought anything about it. It was just what we all did!! That judge ought to have her tail kicked off the bench!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Scatterbrain Posted May 30, 2014 Share Posted May 30, 2014 Somewhat ironic, as I just read an article this week about something called a walking school bus. Basically a bunch of kids walk to school with two parents. I thought "what a novel idea! Kids WALKING to school!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allie Mo, SASS No. 25217 Posted May 30, 2014 Share Posted May 30, 2014 Hi Folks, I walked to elementary and junior high school. That doesn't make it a good idea today. It is a different world today. Whether it is safe for youngsters would depend on specific situations. Regards, Allie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eamon Chute Posted May 30, 2014 Share Posted May 30, 2014 I think the key thing here is the (unknown) age of the boy. If he was less than a teenager, I might think of another form of discipline. A high schooler.......keep on walking bub. EC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henry T Harrison Posted May 30, 2014 Share Posted May 30, 2014 When my son was in his first year of middle school He called me at work and told me he missed the bus home after school. He was given two options wait there until I finished work in about an hour or start walking to my office which was the police station! He chose to walk, I guess I should have arrested myself. As for me I never saw a school bus we walked and I don't remember any such thing as a snow day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badlands Bob #61228 Posted May 30, 2014 Share Posted May 30, 2014 I grew up in a small North Georgia town. It's still a small North Georgia town. We lived about a mile from the school and my mother would take us in the mornings because we would constantly be late if she didn't. The afternoons, we were on our own. The police chief, Fat Albert, was there to help us cross U.S. 129. I guess we were too stupid to watch the traffic light and cross on our own. We had to walk home, up hill, in the blinding snow being constantly attacked by wolves, bears and wild Indians. I had the option of riding my bike in the morning so I would have a bike for the trip home after school, but I was too much into instant gratification to turn down the morning ride. I was so abused as a child which probably explains my lack of political correctness as an adult. And lets not even get into the negligent abuses my parents heaped on me. No cell phone, no x-box, no cable television, no microwave. Nothing. I had to go out into the world and entertain myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted May 30, 2014 Share Posted May 30, 2014 We din't have no yeller school bus in Chester, it were for the local kids that lived out of town. In grade school, I walked to school after I finished my morning paper route each week day morning, In the evening I walked home after delivering my after school paper route. When I got to high school, I rode into town with my Dad and then walked the mile to school. After school, and football practice I walked the two miles home for supper. However, Chester was not filled with sex deviates that tried to lure young kids into their car for nefarious purposes. Maybe if we treated this scum a little differently in the penality department the kids could walk home. The lusty use of a knife and rope come to mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Springfield Slim SASS #24733 Posted May 30, 2014 Share Posted May 30, 2014 When I was in 1st -3rd grade I had to walk about a mile, going through 3 gates that kept the cows in the right field. No sexual deviates, but I had to walk around a few cows that liked to lay on the dirt road. At the end of the road I would catch the bus. We had 45 kids in our 2 room school. 1-4th in one room and a teacher., and 5-8th in the other with the other teacher. I just have to laugh when my kids teachers say they have too many kids to give any individual attention. My first teacher taught 4 different grades in the same room. Even the teachers were tougher in the old days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Litl Red Posted May 30, 2014 Share Posted May 30, 2014 Apparently the Judicial system in Lihue, Hawaii has a very low estimation of the safety of their beautiful city. Of course, the judicial system is usually the reason for the level of safety so who would know better... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 Posted May 30, 2014 Share Posted May 30, 2014 Badger gettin' a ride to school.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted May 30, 2014 Share Posted May 30, 2014 Badger gettin' a ride to school.... An I am all smiles too. Did ya notice, Hardpan? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chickasaw Bill SASS #70001 Posted May 30, 2014 Share Posted May 30, 2014 HEY Badger where is the pet dinosour ? CB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy Bristol Posted May 30, 2014 Share Posted May 30, 2014 The problem now a days is that the pacifists that got laws changed so that you really can't do anything but talk to your kid or you get arrested. In my day all my parents had to do was threaten with the belt and I knew what would happen. Now the kids just tell the parents to go ahead and hit them and they will call the police. This country will become helpless if it keeps going the same way with all these namby pamby laws and PC correct ramblings. I have noticed that many of the kids now a days don't even have any common sense. They have no idea about cause and effect. enough ranting on my part......just had to say something Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted May 30, 2014 Share Posted May 30, 2014 HEY Badger where is the pet dinosour ? CB The dog ate it. All I have left is this really big bone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 Posted May 30, 2014 Share Posted May 30, 2014 Allie does have a point, and I'm reserving my judgement until we hear how old the lad is. There's a difference between a first or second grader and a strapping high-schooler. The news from Lihue on the same day has a story about a person pleading "no contest" to charges of sexual assault of a minor between the age of six and nine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Shoer 27979 Posted May 30, 2014 Share Posted May 30, 2014 Now the kids just tell the parents to go ahead and hit them and they will call the police. One of my kids tried that one time, I will not repeat what I actually said.but is some where along the lines of, Go ahead and call, I will even dial the number, but just wait till I get out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Rusty Bore SASS#22739 Posted May 30, 2014 Share Posted May 30, 2014 So it's dangerous for the kid to walk home because of traffic? Thank God he will be strapped in a vehicle, that has a 20 to 30 gallon potential fire bomb strapped to said vehicle as they negotiate traffic against speeders, drunks, and reckless drivers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawnee McGrutt Posted May 30, 2014 Share Posted May 30, 2014 I got in trouble for letting my oldest daughter walk one block to school. Could watch her all the way to the front door. The bus ride would have been over thirty minutes and she wanted to use that time to sleep in a little longer. So I began to drive her on my way to work, they didn't like that either. Couldn't win either way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tell Sackett SASS 18436 Posted May 31, 2014 Share Posted May 31, 2014 We need to start slapping these Judges upside the head. Go right ahead! Let me know how THAT works out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grizzly Adams 3674 Posted May 31, 2014 Share Posted May 31, 2014 When I was in 1st -3rd grade I had to walk about a mile, going through 3 gates that kept the cows in the right field. No sexual deviates, but I had to walk around a few cows that liked to lay on the dirt road. At the end of the road I would catch the bus. We had 45 kids in our 2 room school. 1-4th in one room and a teacher., and 5-8th in the other with the other teacher. I just have to laugh when my kids teachers say they have too many kids to give any individual attention. My first teacher taught 4 different grades in the same room. Even the teachers were tougher in the old days. Exactly like the school I went to in Sandhill, Texas. Sack lunches, baseball at recess, and no indoor toilets.........no cows....just cotton fields. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Half-a-Hand Henri Posted May 31, 2014 Share Posted May 31, 2014 Wonder what a judge would have done to my dad...when my three brothers and I misbehaved while he was driving, he booted us all out of the vehicle and made us walk in front of the car for a mile or so! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grumpy Old Man Posted May 31, 2014 Share Posted May 31, 2014 I actually jogged 2 miles to high school all 4 years. Rode the bus home except during track season. And it was actually mostly downhill to, but not from. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted May 31, 2014 Share Posted May 31, 2014 I'd be sorely tempted to sell my car, take public transportation to work, and DEMAND that my kids be picked up curbside everyday by a big yellow school bus. They want to take charge of everything, let 'em. Tell the judge that when my $200.00 runs out to float another school bond to pay for the bus fare. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rio Bigg, SASS #29095 Posted May 31, 2014 Share Posted May 31, 2014 ...you couldn't even ride the bus if you lived within a mile and a half as the crow flies from school.... That must have been the rule where I was, too. I lived almost exactly one mile from school. This was a very rainy town, and when the rain was particularly heavy, it was better to walk the half-mile AWAY from school to catch a bus than to walk the usual one mile to school in the rain. There was a special raincoat-drying area in each classroom. Don't even see galoshes (overshoes) any more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shorty Jack Hammer Posted May 31, 2014 Share Posted May 31, 2014 When I was in school we had a range you had to live outside from the school before a bus would pick you up. I don't know what the number was but we lived a mile and a half from all my schools, which were right next to each other, and I walked, or rode my bike everyday. Growing up in the PNW that made for some very soggy strolls. That being said, I'd also like to know more of the details behind his. I'm hoping there was more to it than just making the kid walk to warrant judicial punishment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allie Mo, SASS No. 25217 Posted May 31, 2014 Share Posted May 31, 2014 Here is more about the topic. http://foxnewsinsider.com/2014/05/31/%E2%80%98penalize-fathers-leave-kids%E2%80%99-aidala-says-law-should-stay-out-parenting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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