05-29-2010, 07:27 PM
Grace62 wrote:
My son's junior yearbook features a 2-page spread of kids with their expensive, late-model cars in the school parking lot. I thought I would barf when I saw that. I know a number of the kids featured, and they live very close to the school and the parents purchased the cars for them. Two kids were hit by cars in the school lot last year, both had minor injuries but it doesn't help that so many drive to school when they are still at the age when they drive like idiots. Why are they celebrating materialism and laziness? I don't get it.
Nothing in the yearbook about whether anybody worked to earn the car (they didn't,) or even pay for the gas and insurance, or if they have to drive because they live many miles from the school with a single parent who leaves for work at 6 AM and they have to get themselves to after school jobs or activities.
My kids walk to their middle and high schools, which are just over a mile away, it's a good hilly brisk walk. If it's pouring cold rain they can ride the bus. No way in h ell would we buy them their own cars, they'll have to earn that if they want it.
My son drove a car to high school that made 2 years after he was born. I drove one that
made 5 years after I was born.