In August of 2018, the Widner kids—then ages 13, 11, nine, and seven—were members of a swim team at their local YMCA, which was about two blocks from their house. One day, after swim practice, the 7-year-old, Jackson, lagged behind while the rest of his siblings walked home, and stopped by the grocery for a free cookie.
-Robert
Oh no. Kids today are not safe at all.
ReplyDeleteSafe from lefty Karens that is.
This must be a "white thing". No one cares if a niglet is out on da skreets, unsupervised. The po-po know damned well that a black kid has no father at home, and his mama ain't too concerned.
ReplyDeleteChild Protective Services departments are more often than not a source of child endangerment and abuse rather than "protectors".
ReplyDeleteStrange that CPS puts so many children back into homes where the caregiver has proven to be neglectful at least, and terribly abusive at most, and they end up being killed in horrific ways, yet this family is being harassed.
ReplyDeleteMama Gubmint, keeping everyone safe. Fruit of the 19th Amendment.
ReplyDeleteThis is from the TV show Criminal Minds. It was mostly gore and death, but occasionally they made a valid point.
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Jason Gideon: You know what program did the most harm to this country, in terms of crimes like this? Child abduction?
Det. Charlotte Russet: No.
Dr. Spencer Reid: Stranger danger.
Jason Gideon: Flooded the schools with it.
Dr. Spencer Reid: I remember them coming to my classroom. It was Officer Friendly with stranger danger coloring books.
Jason Gideon: Taught a whole generation about a scary man in a trench coat, hiding behind a tree. Then we learned that strangers are only a fraction of the offenders out there. Most are people you see every day - your family, your neighbors, schoolteachers. You know the rest. Prepared our children for 1% of the danger, made them more vulnerable to 99%. So we've been wrong before. All we can do is learn from it, and hopefully be better next time.
Hell, 8 years old I would get up before my parents and siblings, eat a quick breakfast, make a lunch and grab my bike and ride all over heaven's half acre, be gone all day and the only rule was to be home before the street light hit the pavement when it turned on. My parents had no idea where I was except in the general 5 to 10 square miles...
ReplyDeleteDitto.
DeleteGranted things have changed. I'm now 78 but when I was 6 years old, I walked a mile to get to school every day.
ReplyDeleteWe need more free cookies !
ReplyDeleteI did my elementary school from the second to the sixth grades in the Chattanooga public schools. I rode my bike all over our side of town and my friend Gary and I would ride the bus downtown on Saturday morning to go to the Western Double Feature at one of the theaters. Can't remember the name but the Dixie had all the sci-fi movies. I was always conscious of my parents giving me more freedom as I grew older.
ReplyDeleteI don't know about Canton Ga. but 1963 in Sandy Springs at age 8 I'd ride my bike to Western Auto and buy a 50 pack of 22 LR for 50 cents.
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Can't have that home schooling interfering with the state indoctrination, so any chance to hassle the parents will be used
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