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The School Car Pickup Line Is a National Embarrassment

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Post by RGamma »

me_smith wrote: post #63

My mom walked me to school until I was in 4th grade. She was a single mom and needed to work, so she decided to let me walk to and from school from then on. I made friends on that walk. 30+ years later, I am still friends with many of them even though we live hours away from each other. I'm not a parent, so I don't know what I don't know; but, I've observed so many kids being shuffled between school, events, "play da…

Walking from primary school was the shit. Playing with the electric fence, cycling on the frozen stream, getting scalded for being late...

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Post by apwell23 »

mmooss wrote: post #125
aklemm wrote: post #5

Well that headline sums it up. After 10 years of dealing with it and wondering "how the f did we get to this point", it's satisfying to hear it called what it is. A small win in our family was in my son's final year of elementary school when he finally decided to try walking home 1.5 miles; that Spring was a delight for him. He was properly decompressed and had logged a minimum amount of physical activity for good sl…

Everyone here should watch the Japanese TV series, Old Enough! . 2-4 year olds are sent out on their own to run errands, etc. Yes, really, 2-4 years old. And they succeed and are fine. https://www.ntv.co.jp/english/pc/2011/02/old-enough.html

This is not real though.

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mmooss wrote: post #339
abenga wrote: post #338

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People who call CPS just because children are outside unaccompanied? It's obvious taking children away from the parent is a possibility when one makes that call.

OK, but ... those people may not be 'concern trolls' at all (whatever that means).

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Post by vidarh »

lvl155 wrote: post #83
vidarh wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If I lived in the kind of third world hellhole where this was a realistic scenario, I'd leave the country.

It’s the US. People on here are so sheltered.

I got that it's the US. My statement stands.

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Post by ryandrake »

mmooss wrote: post #339
abenga wrote: post #338

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People who call CPS just because children are outside unaccompanied? It's obvious taking children away from the parent is a possibility when one makes that call.

OK, but ... those people may not be 'concern trolls' at all (whatever that means).

I think in this case ‘concern troll’ means someone who can’t mind their own business and chooses to troll someone by stirring up unnecessary drama or conflict, using insincere concern as a pretext.

We know the concern is insincere because the OP’s example (children playing in their yard) cannot be considered concerning by a reasonable person.

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Post by ryandrake »

cogman10 wrote: post #315
tacticalturtle wrote: post #249

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I understand that’s terrifying in the moment to have CPS at your door, but maybe the erroneous CPS visit is a one time cost we have to pay to change the culture, until CPS learns to ignore phone calls with no more details other than “children are outside”. If they don’t learn to ignore them - that sounds like lawsuit territory Change requires someone that doesn’t accept the status quo (I don’t have kids, but hope to…

> If they don’t learn to ignore them - that sounds like lawsuit territory It's the reverse. CPS could be found liable if they ignored a report where there were indeed problems. Also, I have family that work in CPS and it's really not the bad guy everyone that's "anti-CPS" seems to think. They have a HIGH bar to go over before they'll remove kids from a home. Things have to be particularly bad. And even then, the orga…

If a single report from a source of unknown credibility is enough to send agents to upend an innocent person’s life, then that system is broken. The same is true for swatting. A single phone call should not result in an armed police response.

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Post by ryandrake »

FireBeyond wrote: post #241
mmooss wrote: post #165

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Maybe they are so different because you (and others) won't try to learn from different cultures. If not, probably nothing will change.

America has an obsession with being different and has a thousand answers to why things that work elsewhere would not and could not possibly work here. It's the size, if it's not the size, it's the density, if it's not the density it's ... repeat ad nauseam.

Yea, when someone claims “this could not possibly work in the USA! It’s too large and the population not dense” or whatever, then ask why it wouldn’t work in just New Jersey which is about as large and dense as some European countries.
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