Okay...this really annoys me.
Every time I drive to Jasmine's house to drop off Jack there are AT LEAST 6 crossing guards on every corner... I get it okay. We want our kids to be safe... and I am not downplaying that AT ALL. What I am annoyed by is that besides the 6+ crossing guards (and this is still at leat 1/4 mile from school) there are 5-10 "walking guards" who walk through the neighborhood to "collect" the children from their homes and walk them to school.... and through the "street" crossing guards. I am bothered most by the "walking guards"
SERIOUSLY?
When I was a girl (granted I lived in a small town)
my brother and I walked 3/4 of a mile to school each way...
by ourselves...
without supervision...
without a paid crossing guard.
the 5th graders had a rotating schedule and they got to cross the kids...
at the cross walk that led directly to the school.
I guess what annoys me about this (it all annoys me)
little situation is that my tax dollars are paying for this...
okay I don't send me kids here ...
(so I am already not liking paying for others school when I am made too)
but if I did I would be frustrated that classroom programs are cut,
while there are that many people getting paid to walk kids to and from school.
But this leads me to my concern...
the decline of our society has been so gradual that I fear none of us notice it.
when did parents stop walking their kids... or letting their kids walk... or for goodness sake driving their kids to school???
on another school note... it REALLY bugs me that the public school buses stop at EVERY street even if it is two feet away from the last road...
in a 1/4 mile stretch you very well could stop 5 times or more...
Just think of all the money that we could save if they had "bus stops" where kids met... instead of being picked up at their own road.
In California... there were NO buses... and there were NO "walking" guards. The kids either walked themselves to school... walked with a parent... or got dropped off.
I may stand corrected... but this bothers me...
every day that I sub and have to drop my boy off...
I get annoyed. very annoyed.
just had to vent.
Every time I drive to Jasmine's house to drop off Jack there are AT LEAST 6 crossing guards on every corner... I get it okay. We want our kids to be safe... and I am not downplaying that AT ALL. What I am annoyed by is that besides the 6+ crossing guards (and this is still at leat 1/4 mile from school) there are 5-10 "walking guards" who walk through the neighborhood to "collect" the children from their homes and walk them to school.... and through the "street" crossing guards. I am bothered most by the "walking guards"
SERIOUSLY?
When I was a girl (granted I lived in a small town)
my brother and I walked 3/4 of a mile to school each way...
by ourselves...
without supervision...
without a paid crossing guard.
the 5th graders had a rotating schedule and they got to cross the kids...
at the cross walk that led directly to the school.
I guess what annoys me about this (it all annoys me)
little situation is that my tax dollars are paying for this...
okay I don't send me kids here ...
(so I am already not liking paying for others school when I am made too)
but if I did I would be frustrated that classroom programs are cut,
while there are that many people getting paid to walk kids to and from school.
But this leads me to my concern...
the decline of our society has been so gradual that I fear none of us notice it.
when did parents stop walking their kids... or letting their kids walk... or for goodness sake driving their kids to school???
on another school note... it REALLY bugs me that the public school buses stop at EVERY street even if it is two feet away from the last road...
in a 1/4 mile stretch you very well could stop 5 times or more...
Just think of all the money that we could save if they had "bus stops" where kids met... instead of being picked up at their own road.
In California... there were NO buses... and there were NO "walking" guards. The kids either walked themselves to school... walked with a parent... or got dropped off.
I may stand corrected... but this bothers me...
every day that I sub and have to drop my boy off...
I get annoyed. very annoyed.
just had to vent.
1 comment:
I so agree with you sista! I had to walk a literal mile on a busy road with no sidewalk after the bus dropped me off. I cannot stand how the buses stop every 10 feet. Extreme overkill if you ask me. How do they expect these kids to function in the real world?
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