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chilling effect
Feb. 3rd, 2015 08:36 amMaryland parents get investigated for letting 10 and 6 year old kids walk home alone.
This hits really close to home - I have sort of assumed that if Q seems ready for it, we would let the kids walk to/from school themselves sometimes when he's in the 1st grade and Junie in 4th and they were 6/9. Half a mile, no busy streets except right by the school itself where there's a crossing guard, and it'll be their fifth year of doing it so I imagine they'll know the route pretty well by then. It's weird to think that concern about getting in trouble for it might actually be the limiting factor in that decision rather than actual concern for their safety. (Shouldn't CPS be busy full-time interviewing non-vaccinators?)
This hits really close to home - I have sort of assumed that if Q seems ready for it, we would let the kids walk to/from school themselves sometimes when he's in the 1st grade and Junie in 4th and they were 6/9. Half a mile, no busy streets except right by the school itself where there's a crossing guard, and it'll be their fifth year of doing it so I imagine they'll know the route pretty well by then. It's weird to think that concern about getting in trouble for it might actually be the limiting factor in that decision rather than actual concern for their safety. (Shouldn't CPS be busy full-time interviewing non-vaccinators?)
