Blacksheep Speaks

Think About It

I saw a news story on our local channel the other day that was interesting. Apparently, there is a problem with bussing school kids in Jonesboro Arkansas and some of the kids have to walk as much as eight blocks to get to school. I know this sounds a little cold, but....waaaaaah. Cry me a river.

I grew up in a MUCH larger town....at least until I was eight years old when we moved out here into the middle of nowhere. I attended school in Davenport Iowa from kindergarten until third grade. I was four years old at the beginning of kindergarten, and I walked. Almost two miles. By myself. I was proud that I could.

People do not NEED a bus if they are walking less than two miles. Has ANYONE other than me bothered to notice that when we started thinking our kids were too delicate to do what we ourselves did, when we started babying them, we wound up with overweight kids that have ADD? We didn't have a real big adolescent overweight problem when everyone walked. Now we do. Think about it.