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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well, in the Ramona books, Ramona and Beezus went all over town by themselves when Ramona was in kindergarten! Art class, the library...[/quote]

True. How old was Beezus?[/quote]

Ramona and Beezus went all over town by themselves before Ramona was in kindergarten. In Beezus and Ramona, Beezus is 9 and Ramona is 4.

And in case anybody points out the obvious, namely that this is fiction -- read Beverly Cleary's autobiography, A Girl from Yamhill. A lot of the Beezus and Ramona stories are based on her experiences.[/quote]

No I believe it.  But I don't think it's at all comparable to this situation. [/quote]

Right. It's not at all comparable to this situation because middle-class white kids (like Beezus and Ramona) no longer go all over town, and so therefore on the rare occasions when people see middle-class white kids going all over town, they call 911.

A few weeks ago, everybody on DCUM insisted that a six-year-old was not old enough to walk by himself from his house in a cul-de-sac, past four houses on the same cul-de-sac, to the school bus stop -- partly because, if the school bus didn't come, he wouldn't know what to do.[/quote]

No it's not comparable because this is a much more commercial area and free parents who know the kids are around to see something and know the family so they can report it. [/quote]

Meant "fewer" not "free"[/quote]

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