On Sun, 7 Sep 2014 09:57:27 -0500, "MaryL"
> wrote:

> Even worse, many parents here will not let their children walk to school
> (short distance) *or* ride the school bus. Instead, they drive them to
> school and pick them up afterwards. There is a very long line of cars
> waiting outside the school every afternoon. They make it almost impossible
> for other people to drive by the school because they block the road with
> long lines of cars waiting to pick up their sons or daughters. This is a
> small, pleasant community.
>

Worse than that, the parent who does give their child a bike to ride
to school is pitied as being "too poor" to afford a car by judgmental
people who don't know anything about their situation other than the
child rides a bike to school every day.


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