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Let me see if I can express what I previously posted a little more clearer :
You have a child/teenage student who has to walk a few blocks down the road from the house to catch the school bus -- keep in mind, NO ONE is walking with the student as in Sierra's case -- she is ALONE going to her bus stop.
The parent LEAVES the home BEFORE the student leaves the home and walks to the school bus stop to take her to school.
So parent goes to work ... in the meantime, the student is heading to the school bus stop a few blocks DOWN THE ROAD from the home and student walks there ALONE !
Any parent who is concerned about their child's SAFETY would check and make sure their child got to school safely -- especially when they walk alone to the school bus!
This is NOT about "skipping school" ... or "cutting classes" ...
This is plain and simple "common sense" in the DANGEROUS "day and age" we live in !
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dog.gone.cute I couldn't agree more with you about this issue.. Some may say that Sierra was 15 and plenty old enough to not have to be watched over with this type of check in with mom.. I say no way, Jose is it too much to ask, too overbearing, or overly protective.. Not in the very least..
My son is almost 1 year younger than Sierra he's 14, halfway to 15 yrs old and is in his last year of middle school.. We live literally 200+ yards away from the front door of his middle school.. So extremely close that he is not even eligible to ride the bus.. Literally 2 football fields away from the entrance door, tho due to the fact that there is about a 90* left turn between our house and the school I cannot however visually see him make it the full distance onto school property and through that front entrance.. He walks nearly EVERY SINGLE DAY OF THE SCHOOL YEAR(in Memphis so our winters are mild) this is his preference.. The only time he does not walk to/from school is of course on days that it's raining(and honestly even sometimes on those days he calls and says don't come pick me up we're all walking home in the rain..lol.. Go figure it's three boys..lol).. There are two other boys that live on our street that he walks along with to/from school every day..
And let me say that even so we are so craZily close in distance from our house to the front door of the school.. And even so he's almost 15 and about to start highschool.. And even so he is walking this extremely short distance accompanied by 2 other 14yr old fully capable boys.. Even so all of that my son IS REQUIRED TO TEXT MESSAGE ME THE MOMENT HE IS AT THE FRONT ENTRANCE THAT IS FULLY STAFFED, along with off duty sheriffs deputy, and two crossing guards.. This is not an option and he is well aware of its importance from learning there would be consequences if he chose to not be diligent in making certain to do this without fail EVERY SINGLE DAY OF THE SCHOOL YEAR(he forgot twice at the beginning of the year and lost his privilege to walk to school and use of his phone for a week)..and so that's exactly what he does without fail everyday, Mon-Fri..
With the same being true on his way back home after school in that he is to text message me the moment he's out the front entrance before he walks over the cross walk to let me know they're on their way home..3 mins later he's walking through my front door..
I do not want my child to have to suffer because of the evil all around us and I have found for me personally I feel as tho he is still being allowed to be a kid who likes walking to school with his buddies..but that we have a system in place that would allow me to know within 5 minutes of my son leaving home if something were to have happened to him such as being abducted.. If I've not heard from him in 5-6mins I call his phone.. When he didn't answer that one time early on that I mentioned he'd forgotten.. Within 5mins of my last having seen my son I was on the phone with the front office having them check to make sure he had made it to school.. And he had but with school rules being that once in school his phone is to be kept on silent not only did he forget to text me that morning, but when I called his phone I of course got no answer due to the ringer being off..
Now you factor in the setting and situation of Sierra's walk to the bus each morning with the area being extremely rural, her not accompanied by anyone, but rather walking all alone, a much much much further distance than the couple hundred yards my son walks, and on top of it all once arriving at the bus stop she is STILL COMPLETELY ALL ALONE IN A QUITE REMOTE AREA.. It is my opinion only that for there not to have been some type of check in with mom, dad, Rick, anybody for that matter.. Just to have her check in with somebody the moment her butt hit the seat of that school bus to let it be known she's safe and sound.. I just cannot personally fathom how I as her mom would be able to go throughout my day not having a clue if she made it on the bus that day.. And not just an abduction but my God a dog attack, her trip and fall and break an ankle..or hell had a severe asthma attack.. Lose consciousness.. And be alone at the house and never even was able to get to the bus stop.. No one would even find her til that evening when mom or Rick returned.. IMO too much to risk to not have a check in policy in place..
But all in all these are nothing more than jmo, tho!!
Still posting via mobile so plz forgive the large number of errors in my posts
