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  • Rusty Raven M
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    8 months ago

    The need to supervise children every waking minute of their lives has reached fairly absurd proportions. I while ago I was reading about a “walking school bus” program designed to get kids walking to school instead of being driven. It was facing closure because of lack of funding. The idea that walking to school is something that needs both a special program and funding is just wrong in so many ways.

    I don’t know how we managed to get from children being able to run around mostly unsupervised to a society in which people will call 000 because they see a teenager sitting in a car without an adult, but we have.

    • Catfish
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      8 months ago

      It boggles the mind. My parents were pretty tight, and I still walked multi km to the trainstation. What they would’ve been like with the tracking and helicopter options available now is terrifying.