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"Free-range" kids walk home alone: parents investigated for neglect

 
 
Setanta
 
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Reply Fri 16 Jan, 2015 08:17 pm
@FBM,
Be back by dark--my grandmother had an old school teachers bell which she would ring when it was time for supper. We had enough sense to be within sound of the bell by that time of day; it meant it was time to eat!

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FBM
 
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Reply Fri 16 Jan, 2015 08:40 pm
@Setanta,
Yeah, playing distance from house = 1/time to suppertime.

And there was also hollerin' to call up anything from the kids to the cows.
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maxdancona
 
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Reply Fri 16 Jan, 2015 09:00 pm
Is there anyone here who agrees with CPS on this one? This seems to be a rather one sided discussion.
Setanta
 
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Reply Fri 16 Jan, 2015 09:13 pm
@maxdancona,
If you agree with them, say so. We are not obliged, you know, to take positions solely in the interest of some vague notion of balance.
maxdancona
 
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Reply Fri 16 Jan, 2015 09:24 pm
@Setanta,
I don't agree with CPS, their actions in this case are ridiculous.

I just find it amusing that as contentious as this issue is, and as combative as Able2Know is of late, that there everyone seems to be in agreement.

Kumbaya.
Kolyo
 
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Reply Fri 16 Jan, 2015 09:35 pm
@maxdancona,
Able2know is a self-selecting sample. You have to be able to construct a coherent sentence to continue posting regularly.

Perhaps, the type of people who would vote for these child leash laws can't do that.
FBM
 
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Reply Fri 16 Jan, 2015 09:39 pm
I find it a relief that there's something we can talk about without being so contentious.*




*No group hugs or warm fuzzies, though, please.

Setanta
 
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Reply Fri 16 Jan, 2015 09:41 pm
@maxdancona,
What a snide, sneering little trouble-maker you are. Put that kumbaya **** where the sun don't shine. Is that contentious enough for you, you big phony?
maxdancona
 
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Reply Fri 16 Jan, 2015 10:00 pm
@Setanta,
Oh Setanta, you seem a bit grumpy. Would you like a hug?
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roger
 
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Reply Fri 16 Jan, 2015 10:30 pm
@FBM,
FBM wrote:

*No group hugs or warm fuzzies, though, please.


{{{{FBM}}}
FBM
 
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Reply Fri 16 Jan, 2015 10:31 pm
@roger,
roger wrote:

FBM wrote:

*No group hugs or warm fuzzies, though, please.


{{{{FBM}}}


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maxdancona
 
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Reply Sat 17 Jan, 2015 06:09 am
@FBM,
But Setanta is so huggable....
Brandon9000
 
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Reply Sat 17 Jan, 2015 10:32 am
From the age of 5, I walked to and from school alone. My mother walked with me the first couple of days of kindergarten and then I was on my own. The CPS actions are preposterous.
FBM
 
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Reply Sat 17 Jan, 2015 10:44 am
@maxdancona,
maxdancona wrote:

But Setanta is so huggable....


Be that as it may, he's still a hard-leg. I only hug split-tails...
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Sat 17 Jan, 2015 10:45 am
@Brandon9000,
Brandon9000 wrote:
The CPS actions are preposterous.
Seems, they just follow the law.
Ticomaya
 
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Reply Sat 17 Jan, 2015 10:29 pm
@Kolyo,
Kolyo wrote:
Able2know is a self-selecting sample. You have to be able to construct a coherent sentence to continue posting regularly.

Sadly, not true.

Interestingly, I have a case right now where the other side has just complained because my client is letting his 9 and 7 year old children walk home from school. The other attorney is threatening to take this issue to court.
Kolyo
 
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Reply Sat 17 Jan, 2015 10:30 pm
@Ticomaya,
Yikes! Smile
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Setanta
 
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Reply Sat 17 Jan, 2015 10:43 pm
@Brandon9000,
Exactly--my sister and i did the same.
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ossobuco
 
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Reply Sat 17 Jan, 2015 11:15 pm
I was missed when playing outside in my kindergarten class. I'd not been in the earlier class, so in the new one. No one came to get me so I walked home, maybe ten blocks across at least one relatively biggo street.

Start of a walker, hey!

I remember a lot of stuff going on.
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Sat 17 Jan, 2015 11:22 pm
One day, when I was still in the first grade, I misinterpreted the call to recess and walked home. Nobody checked with my parents to see what happened to me. Next day, the teacher said, "The bell rang, and where was Edgar?" I just looked at her and that was the end of it.
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