The Shame of It All

[Towntalk]

Child Abuse In The Extreme

PROVIDENCE, R.I.  — Faced with soaring diesel fuel costs, school districts are forcing students to use the old-fashioned way to get to class: on their own two feet.

Montgomery County, Md. –  Seeking ways to contain fuel costs, the school board has authorized its superintendent to force students to walk farther to school. The current limits now stand at one mile for elementary school students and up to two miles for high schoolers.

What about the children?  What are we doing?  We already know that they are having to wear last year's clothes.  You know how humiliating that is for your average high school kid?  The rich are able to buy their kids new clothes.  So once again the stigma of being poor or middle class will sock these kids right in the eye, and we don't care.  We're doing it out of selfishness.

These kinds of hardships have not been known to exist in our country in I don't know how many years, and now we simply tell them to walk two miles in dangerous cities, in cold snow and rain?  Well, it may cure the childhood obesity crisis, but it's going to increase pollution and cause global warming with all the additional cars, and then the traffic and then the road rage and so forth.

THE SHAME OF IT ALL!
Kids forced to walk to school like they were living in a third world country.
Kids forced to wear last years cloths again as if they were living in a fifth world country.
THE SHAME OF IT ALL!

What has America come to?