the coddling of a generation..

[SnakeEye]

are we trying to breed a generation of super pussies?

MONDAY, Dec. 5 (HealthDay News) -- Backpacks carried to and from school by the average American child are too heavy for safety and need to be reduced, warns a new report.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20051206/hl_hsn/backpacksaheavyburdenforkids

When i was kid i dont even think we had backpacks, we used straps to bind them together and slung that over our shoulders. Too heavy? GROW STRONGER... thas what muscles do.. Look at an images of some 5 year old girl in south east asia carrying a 125 lb boulder on her head through a rice field knee deep in the mud all day.. we truly are on the verge of extinction.
Who the hell funds these candy store studies anywhere?
whoever had their signature that said a stronger race will simply come along take us over, this is living proof of the process at work.

 

[Admin]

are we trying to breed a generation of super pussies?

Yes. I remember having to walk 4 or 5 blocks to the bus stop, now they pick each child up at the end of the driveway. [roll]

If they want to bitch about child saftey, then the parents should be at the bus stop. [roll]

I could go on, but I'll stop.

 

[JonJ]

Yes. I remember having to walk 4 or 5 blocks to the bus stop, now they pick each child up at the end of the driveway. [roll]

If they want to bitch about child saftey, then the parents should be at the bus stop. [roll]

I could go on, but I'll stop.

They don't do the driveway thing around here. My wife does the routes and she gets threatened with lawsuits every year when the routes are published in the newspapers. She been sworn at too. So far no threats of physical violence.

 

[dwarven1]

Yes. I remember having to walk 4 or 5 blocks to the bus stop, now they pick each child up at the end of the driveway.

Walk 4 or 5 blocks???

Man, I had to either walk or ride my bike the mile and a half to junior high. In rotten weather I could usually get one of my parents to drive me, but I remember riding in the rain more than once... And I don't EVER remember anyone getting bussed.

They don't do the driveway thing around here. My wife does the routes and she gets threatened with lawsuits every year when the routes are published in the newspapers. She been sworn at too. So far no threats of physical violence.

I'm confused... she gets threatened with lawsuits because she's a schoolbus driver? Whatinhell for? Because the routes get published? Shouldn't they be threatening the newspapers?

 

[Admin]

Yes. I remember having to walk 4 or 5 blocks to the bus stop, now they pick each child up at the end of the driveway.

Walk 4 or 5 blocks???

That's a long way when it's 20 below outside and a 25 mph wind.

 

[JonJ]

They don't do the driveway thing around here. My wife does the routes and she gets threatened with lawsuits every year when the routes are published in the newspapers. She been sworn at too. So far no threats of physical violence.

I'm confused... she gets threatened with lawsuits because she's a schoolbus driver? Whatinhell for? Because the routes get published? Shouldn't they be threatening the newspapers?

She's the Asst. Mgr. of the school bus company. Every summer she gets the list of all students and designs the routes for their pick-ups and deliveries. I believe they can have a student walk as far as one mile but she doesn't do that. Parents want their children picked up and dropped off at their doors rather than having them walk to a designated neighborhood stop. She's been told, "you're discriminating against us", "If my kid gets hit by a car, I'll own you", "I don't like the people that are at the stop", "why did you put the stop in front of THEIR house and not mine" and they all end with, "you'll hear from my lawyer" ....It goes on ad nauseam

 

[SnakeEye]

if you kid gets hit by a car, thats natural selection

 

[Admin]

if you kid gets hit by a car, thats natural selection

True, unless it's a woman driver. [shock]



Ducking for cover..... "Incoming!" [twisted]

 

[dwarven1]

She's the Asst. Mgr. of the school bus company. Every summer she gets the list of all students and designs the routes for their pick-ups and deliveries. I believe they can have a student walk as far as one mile but she doesn't do that. Parents want their children picked up and dropped off at their doors rather than having them walk to a designated neighborhood stop. She's been told, "you're discriminating against us", "If my kid gets hit by a car, I'll own you", "I don't like the people that are at the stop", "why did you put the stop in front of THEIR house and not mine" and they all end with, "you'll hear from my lawyer" ....It goes on ad nauseam

[shock] [shock] [shock]

Man, that's a no-win situation. I don't know what I'd do in her place. (I know what I'd like to do... [twisted] tell some of those parents off. But she can't do that if she wants to keep her job, I'm sure.)

 

[MrsWildweasel]

Derek, at least you didn't make it a Blonde woman driver. [twisted] Although I have seen some guys that are pretty bad drivers also. [lol] [lol]

 

[C-pher]

She's the Asst. Mgr. of the school bus company. Every summer she gets the list of all students and designs the routes for their pick-ups and deliveries. I believe they can have a student walk as far as one mile but she doesn't do that. Parents want their children picked up and dropped off at their doors rather than having them walk to a designated neighborhood stop. She's been told, "you're discriminating against us", "If my kid gets hit by a car, I'll own you", "I don't like the people that are at the stop", "why did you put the stop in front of THEIR house and not mine" and they all end with, "you'll hear from my lawyer" ....It goes on ad nauseam

[shock] [shock] [shock]

Man, that's a no-win situation. I don't know what I'd do in her place. (I know what I'd like to do... [twisted] tell some of those parents off. But she can't do that if she wants to keep her job, I'm sure.)

Our bus stops were at a corner store up the street from us as well. Which was nice because we could get candy and the like while we were waiting for the bus to show up.

We always had to walk, never did a bus pick us up at our house. Winter or not, didn't matter. We had to walk.

Hell, I can remember having my breaks go out on my bike, and I ran right into someones car at a stop sign, broke my thumb. No one was sued. It was what kids do...get hurt and ride a bike too fast.

My wife thinks I'm mean when I said that we're not going to child proof our house. And when she was playing too close to an outlet, I told my wife, "Let her lick it, it won't kill her and she'll never do it again."

My wife doesn't like it when I say that.

 

[MrsWildweasel]

Jon, I do feel for your wife. Some of the places I went to school if you lived with in 2 miles of the school you were a walker. A few places we lived we lived far enough we had to be bussed.

 

[Pilgrim]

hat's a long way when it's 20 below outside and a 25 mph wind.

It's a lot better than 1 1/2 miles in the same weather.

When I was a kid, we weren't allowed to take the bus unless we were more than 1 1/2 miles from school.

I was right at the 1 1/2 mile mark so I couldn't take it. However my mother would take me on bad weather days or for a while there, my grandfather drove bus and would pick me up anyway. The rest of the time I rode my bike across town.

I used to walk the mile to and from school from the first grade thru the 5th. Then the long bike ride to the 6-8th grades and finally a 1/2 mile walk to the High School.

Would you let your 6 year old walk one mile to school today?

It was a different time.

 

[Admin]

Would you let your 6 year old walk one mile to school today?

It was a different time.

No but I wouldn't force the school bus company to pick them up at my driveway.

My kids are my responsibility nobody elses.

Because of all the stops, Orion is on the bus for 45 minutes, his school is 5 miles away.

 

[dwarven1]

Would you let your 6 year old walk one mile to school today?

I'm... not sure. The road I live on does not have sidewalks, and the looney tunes around here are in such a hurry to get to the mall that they go flying down the road. So probably not.

As for safety? Um. Marlboro's pretty safe (the amber alert last month was an exception), so I don't know... Maybe not at six.

 

[MrsWildweasel]

In todays world, no. Elementary school Alan was bussed, whe he went to the middle school, he walked. School was right down the hill from us. Once he started the Voke school he was bussed and picked up in the driveway. It was different times when we grew up, and we could do those things now a days it is not safe. I should also add the Voke school was in a different town from where we live.

 

[Skald]

High School where I went we had pickups at the end of the developments. Some kids got picked up at their house, but they were pretty far away from the rest so no big deal.

As far as biking, I remember during the summer that me and my friends commonly rode our bikes to school and it was a good 3-4 miles.

Bookbags, let them tote my friends Tom's bag from Middle School. The kid carried his ENTIRE locker with him all the time. You walk by it and peek in and the only thing you see is his coat.


As I read these reports I am wondering how in the hell we expect we as a nation to make it past the next 20 yrs.