Kids around here are also allowed to walk home from kindergarten on up. And we have some seriously shady areas around here. I live literally on the property that divides school districts here, and my kid will be taken by bus to a school further away, while my neighbors kids walk to a school nearby.
But I am just as uncomfortable. I don't trust the bus drivers. i don't trust the crossing guards. I don't trust the guy at the gas station. i don't trust the waitress at the diner I ate at this afternoon. My faith in humanity is gone. I use to love living my life with the outlook of "I'd rather trust everyone and eventually be wrong than to not trust anyone and eventually be right" , not anymore though. I know too much now, and yet I know nothing. I look at every single person within sight of my child and think the same exact thing anymore. "I don't trust you!" I use to hate the though of people living like this, but now I live like it myself.
I was outside working in the yard earlier and I was on a ladder. My 3 year old was right below me, and I wasn't high, just enough to reach a branch that I was working on... maybe 5 feet off the ground. A car pulled up in front of my house and stopped. In a single breath I hit the ground, swiped up my little guy and had taken the 10 foot walk to the house to sit him inside the doorway. All I could think of was... I don't care what this person wants, they now know I have a child and I HATE the thought of that! I don't trust them!
We can plead and lobby and fight the officials all we want, and things may or may not get done right eventually, but in the meantime I am going back to basics. Street smarts. It may not save them, but it certainly can go a long way to help. These sick people need to be fought head on, nothing else it working. I know the thought of a young child fighting off these overpowering monsters is pretty far fetched, but like someone above mentioned, knock over everything, kick, scream, blow a whistle, pepper spray, bite, punch, gouge out the eyes, the whole time screaming! Unfortunately, with the world today, I really think we need to go this route. We need to take this world and our kids back from these animals.
RIP little angel Somer
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You didn't deserve any of this.
I'm sorry for side tracking folks.