Dad Reprimanded for Letting Daughter Walk to Bus Stop

I agree with you, however with the pedophiles and child abduction, you have to be so careful these days. We didn't have too much child abduction, but then again, we didn't have the media coverage we do today and the Amber Alerts, etc. It's a shame that kids just can't be kids anymore. I say that the death penalty would suffice if anyone abducts or molests a child and maybe there wouldn't be so much of it and our kids would be able to be kids.

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I'm with the bus driver, the Council, and against the parents of this girl. She is too young to cross alone the road, no matter that it is a country road. For the good psychological development of this child, having an adult accompanying her to the bus stop, would do give her a very comfortable feeling of being loved and cared for. Even if there was no road, even if it was the case of the bus stopping in front of her house, one of the parents would do very well in coming with the girl to the bus stop. My view is these parents are absolutely lazy. With five children, they must be very busy... :-)

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I use to walk to school, not the bus, because it was too dangerious on the buss. Bullies always rulled the bus and the driver was ignorant of that or just didn't care.

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There's concerned citizens and then there are nosy neighbors who need to mind their own business. I'm sure if the child were ever in danger, the parents would have the knowledge to walk with their child to the bus. The system sucks. Some woman (who I doubt has kids) came to my friend's kids' school and told the children that if their mommy or daddy spanks them, they can call child services. Child protective services is worrying about a little thing like that while criminals are hiding little girls in their back yards. While child protective services is worrying about people letting their children cross the street, they are placing other children with unfit and abusive parents. The government whether a committee or an actual country has no right to tell someone how to raise their children. There are far more hazards to a child than crossing a street that is obviously not busy. Let parents raise their children.

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Oh ugh. I thought this was going to be a kindergartner being sent a mile alone or something. Geez! This is wonderful parenting compared to so many out there who really are doing a neglectful job. I see nothing wrong with what he is doing. Many parents here do not even pull into the parking lot space to let their kids off, they just make them get off in the middle of a lane while they pull their cars out in front of other kids almost hitting them. There are many lazy parents, but this guy sounds fine.

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In our town every kid older than preschool age crosses our main street alone to get the park, social activities, etc. They are riding their bikes all over the place. Yes, you have to be careful and not let them go anywhere isolated alone or out at night, etc, but they have learned to cross the street and everything is fine.

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Geez ... all of us kids rode our bikes ( yes, in the street ) to school everyday ( unless it was raining. ) Nobody thought twice about it.

In Junior and Senior high school, I had to cross a busy highway to get to my bus stop. Okay ... maybe that was not the best arrangement. One day a speeding car jumped the curb and nearly took me out.

While I think the authorities in this story over-reacted, we do not live in the same world as we did 35 years ago. Maybe there could be some sort of compromise without calling in Child Protective Services.

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and elizabeth smart was snatched from her bedroom in the middle of the night with her sister sleeping in the same room and her parents down the hall... what's your point? babies are cut right out of their mother's wombs by whack jobs who want a baby..or stolen from hospitals right from under the noses of nurses, security guards and parents...
you can't live your lives in a plastic bubble surrounded by land mines.. you can't raise your kids that way. it's not like she had to walk a mile to the school thru drug riddled slums.. she had to cross the road and go what would amount to the length of most front yards. bad things happen.. it's unfortunate.. we can guard against it. .but we can't live our lives always expecting it because then THEY win.. we become a victim without even having anything done to us because we live in constant fear of the unknown.. not a good way to raise a kid.. because fear is a very seductive manipulator.. and will win out every time it wants to control your life.. and it's easy to let it do so

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How many kids have been kidnaped right out of their own yard, Molested, raped, and killed over the age of 10 yrs.? I don't care what you people did when you were that age. There are more and more nut cases out there as the population grows, Anyone who fails to realize that should by law be force to get neutered or spayed to prevent them from reproducing.

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I guess times have really changed since my father had to walk to the one room school house, uphill both ways, through five feet of snow with only one shoe, past the state prison camp while outrunning the packs of hungry wolves.

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it sick and getting sicker, and the sad thing about it is that many parents today refuse to teach there children. Who in the world would have ever thought that England with its vast history would crumble to a bunch of pansies. God save the English from the pansies.

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These are the equivalent to helicopter parents. 45 yds? I walked to school at age 6, and it was a half mile, and crossed a busy state highway. We were taught how to cross safely, at the signal. BTW the school zones were 30 MPH in the 40's.

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I'll be standing at the front door waiting for the police to come lock me up. I confess..........I once let my son go without a bandaid on a brush burn he sustained from falling off his tricycle. OMG...I just remembered, he didn't have on a helmet, knee pads, shoulder pads, elbow pads..... The elementary school was across the street from our home. I stood outside on our porch and watched him walk 30 feet to the end of the block so he could cross with the guard to the other side. He may have been mauled by a tiger while walking those 30 feet !!!! I have to go lay down now...I'm getting a migraine from thinking about what a horrible mother I was. I also need to go put a sweater on the dog...it's nippy outside today. P.S. This world has gone WAYYYYY too far out into left field !!!!!!!!!!!

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I agree that something should be done about this and in a hurry. First fire the bus driver. Then fire the school authoritiers that were involved. Then fire all of the people with child protective services who did not immediately support the parent of this child. Case closed!

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Fire the bus driver then shut up.

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I was 6 y.o. when I went to school in the Former Soviet Union. All first graders were required to take "safety road tests": a 30 min group interactive game with a police inspector.

If you did well on the test you could walk to school independently. Every child tried to pass it with "flying colors". At the age 7 it was considered to be shameful to have a parent accompany you to school. Guess what? Noone was injured!

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Just one more time that the little tin gods have to make sure the rest of us live our lives the way they think we should. It's a wonder I lived past 10 with all the things my parents did or didn't do that the tin gods now think should have put them in jail. The one thing that I fine the funniest is that most (maybe 80%) don't even have children of their own, thus don't have a clue, but still think they know best because they have a piece of papper from some school that states they have learned all there is to know about everything.

Let the Dad be, get on with helping the kids that really need help there are more then enough of them out there. I know we were foster parents for many years for children that really need that kind of help. But the people that put them there need to have been parents for at least one child for no less then 18 years first

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O' Hell why don't we just force that child to quit school get a job move out and find her own place in life? Hell if you want to teach them independence that would be the way to go! Lazy 7 yr, old child anyway still freeloading off daddy

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