04-30-2009, 12:34 PM
Dustie Wrote:My thoughts on sheltering kids:
I think kids do need to be sheltered to some extent. I was sent to high school in downtown DC. I'm glad I was at least 14-15 when I started having to take the metro, run from mean homeless guys, and get held up at knife/gun point. I don't think it would have worked out so well if I was sent downtown at age 5.
In other words, I think you start out sheltered, and slowly remove the protective shield that we all install on our newborn babies.
I totally disagree with the idea of having 1st graders on the same bus as 11th graders. That's crazy.
My school had grades K-12 in the same building. We all rode the same buses. Nobody died. You city folk are pussies.
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Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.
-Thomas Jefferson
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Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.
-Thomas Jefferson
Spread my work ethic not my wealth.