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cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
When my daughter was in grade school in the 80's they could walk home from grade school by themselves...now children aren't allowed to leave the building unless an approved parent or pick-up person (has to be on the list and they have to had a school card with the child's name on it) is there, or unless they ride a school or daycare bus. That freaked me out, I'm raising a child and when I first heard this I thought "What the hell?" but they are doing it to protect the children.
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
@abe182: it's not the parents, it's the fact that parents that don't have custody will try to get to the children before they get home, and there have been a couple of kidnapping attempts (by strangers) on children here in the past few years. Schools can be sued if they don't protect them. And this year they started something else new, you have to get a badge to get into the building if you are a visitor, you can get to the principle's office and they will open the door for you. They don't want any active shooter problems in the schools. Sign of the times.
MasterDvdC · 61-69, M
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
@MasterDvdC: Haha when I lived in Nebraska we lived a few miles from town and on really nice spring days after a cold winter we'd tell the bus driver to drop us off a mile or two before our scheduled stop and he would, we'd walk with our farm neighbor's kids all the way home, and nobody made a fuss because we were late either. But things are different with these child custody cases and it seems like there are more child abductions...never heard of it anywhere I lived when I was a kid.