a rant on music in stores and some other news

 

1. Just on the little 4-yr-old girl biking 3 miles to school.

   I’ve just two questions:

   1. Why is a 4-year-old required to be at school at all?
   2. Ditto

   I lived three miles out-of-town as a teen. If the weather was good, I’d eschew the bus, hop on my bike, and pedal the three miles to school. By choice. Which usually meant I was gonna be at a D&D game after school.

   But we’re talking jr High and High school. Not three miles for a little 4-yr-old.

   The only thing that is even close in my life was I had to walk four blocks to school when I was in kindergarten. Then we moved. I had to walk six blocks to finish kindergarten. But I did that when I was five. Why is a 4-yr-old…

   Posted by Christopher       11/05/2011  at  10:04 PM  



2. They start at 5 so I’m going to assume it’s pre-school tho the article made no mention of it.  Anyway, the MP who suggested a 4yr old bike 3 miles probably isn’t a parent.

   When I was a kid, we lived close enough to walk. I think in those long gone and lamented days, neighborhood schools were exactly that. I do not recall ever seeing a school bus at our grammar school. I can’t recall exactly how far it was but I know it was more then a couple of short blocks. And in winter, unless things were really bad, and they had to be pretty darn bad, we walked in that. Which of course for kids was fun and lots of snow ball fights along the way.  The walk home on the other hand was a bit harder cos it was up an incline. Funny thing about that. I say it was a bit harder but ... I don’t actually remember it being harder. Hmmm. Pre smoker days and under ten. Today that slight incline would appear as a mountain to me.

   Sad ... a number of yrs ago I went back to Htfd. for a visit with family member who was in hosp. Was taken on a tour of the old neighborhood and the school we attended.  School grounds in our day was all open. No longer. Surrounded by chain link looking more like a prison.  And the composition of the student body had changed drastically. As had our old neighborhood. Again, small houses and chain link fences everywhere. Only a few showed any signs that anyone was house proud and maintained any sort of garden or lawn.

   Posted by peiper       11/06/2011  at  11:25 AM  



3. On the muszak - did you happen into a super WalMart while here? They now have this disgusting and annoying little screens at the end of aisles that just go on and on about this product or that one. You can’t escape it at all - makes the muzak sound just plain delightful.

   School - sad to say it’s probably a racial thing - make the po’ white people do the impossible while allowing the ‘special’ groups to have all the perks and bennies.

   When we moved here - the HS doesn’t provide bus service. The counselor (no children) said to walk around the neighborhood and knock on doors and ask if someone goes to the HS - or drive her myself. Problem with the idea - we were brand new, don’t particularly want total strangers driving my daughter across two townships and my husband left for work at 7:30AM and came back at 4PM. Bus came at 7:30AM and returned at just before 4 - how did I know that - because my son went to school on the ‘short’ bus - which of course my daughter couldn’t ride until the pay-for bus gave us a place. And did I mention that when we got here, we only had one car. My solution was to not even put her into school but just kept homeschooling her. No concern for the children at all, it’s all about the benjamins and keeping them coming in to our union coffers.

   Posted by wardmama4       11/06/2011  at  01:29 PM  

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