PLEASE GET OFF YOUR ASS AND WALK YOUR KID TO/FROM SCHOOL!!

[Anonymous]

I have been seeing this for a long time now and am so frickin sick of it! WTH is are you doing so important that you can't walk your 5,6,7,8,9+ year old child(ren) to school?!! This shit should be against the law. If you are a parent and you see this happening at your child's school please let the school admins know. If the school is relatively close to your house, maybe they're ok. I could care less about the parent, I just can't help but feel for the child.

See http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post_now/post/boy-struck-by-car-in-se-dc/2011/03/30/AFzdyn4B_blog.html

[Anonymous]

...happens at Oyster Adams all the time...I see kids who don't even come up to my elbow wandering alone, crossing busy streets, even very small girls. Crazy.

[Anonymous]

I didn't know Aunt Becky was on this board.

[Anonymous]

I walk my child to school every day. Even with a crossing guard and signs that say school zone 15 MPH the drivers are zooming by. A few weeks ago I observed a teacher standing in the crosswalk as a car was trying to navigate through the pedestrians to make a right on red.

I have tried to get DOT to put up a "No Turn on Red" sign at the intersection - but it means I need to go to an ANC meeting to request a traffic study. I believe that the presence of a school should over ride a procedure that requires a traffic study - but sadly DOT does not agree with me.

[Anonymous]

Okay, seriously? I'm OP and the father of 4 elemetary-aged kids. Aside from the fact that allowing this to happen is extremely dangerous traffic-wise, these kids are predictably walking routes that makes them easy targets for pyschos who prey on kids. I don't mean any harm in my post -- it just breaks my heart when I read about a child getting hurt or gone missing. This is preventable folks. That's all.

[Anonymous]

The child was hit at 3:30 pm

So is OP telling all of us to quit our jobs so we are avaliable to walk the kids home from school every day? That's what it sounds like.

[Anonymous]

Wait! my mistake. re-reading the OP, I am guessing a very low educational attainment and maybe even public assistance. So we should all go on public assistance, which would free us from those pesky jobs that keep us away from the school yard at 3:30

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wait! my mistake. re-reading the OP, I am guessing a very low educational attainment and maybe even public assistance. So we should all go on public assistance, which would free us from those pesky jobs that keep us away from the school yard at 3:30

No, I don't think that's what OP's saying, at all. Have you ever heard of before-and-after care?

Further, based on writing styles, I wouldn't say that OP is uneducated or on PA. You, on the other hand...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Okay, seriously? I'm OP and the father of 4 elemetary-aged kids. Aside from the fact that allowing this to happen is extremely dangerous traffic-wise, these kids are predictably walking routes that makes them easy targets for pyschos who prey on kids. I don't mean any harm in my post -- it just breaks my heart when I read about a child getting hurt or gone missing. This is preventable folks. That's all.

Elemetary?

[Anonymous]

..happens at Oyster Adams all the time...I see kids who don't even come up to my elbow wandering alone, crossing busy streets, even very small girls. Crazy.
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I walk my child to Oyster every day and have NEVER seen this.

[Anonymous]

The story doesn't say if he was alone or not? Maybe the child only got hit not the guardian--it is possible.

[Anonymous]

07:52, nice to know that you've never made a typo in your life.

[Anonymous]

And, by the way, it's very possible for a child to get hit by a car even if the parent is right there walking them to/ from school. Sometimes my hands are full and I can't grab all three of my kids, and one runs ahead. Sometimes kids heedlessly run out into intersections after a ball / dog / other child. My mother spanked me when I was a kid because my sister followed my friend across the street in front of a car while I was watching her. Kids move fast. You are drawing inferences from the post article that are unwarranted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The child was hit at 3:30 pm

So is OP telling all of us to quit our jobs so we are available to walk the kids home from school every day? That's what it sounds like.

I don't think that is what OP is saying, whatever other leaps of logic his post may include. You do realize though that what you are saying doesn't make sense eihter because what is a 5-9 yo doing walking home alone if there is no one home to supervise him for another 3 hours.

[Anonymous]

Wow. Many people on this forum are unbelievably rude and elitist. I have a higher level of education than probably 95% of the posters here. That doesn't mean I'm entitled to make fun of others. Clearly, many of you still have a lot to learn. Starting with humility and compassion.