05-28-2010, 11:21 PM
I moved a couple of months ago to a neighborhood that I grew up in. I lived out here from 10 - 17 yo.
Today I was out and about in the mid afternoon and found myself in front of my old junior high school... where there was an IMMENSE traffic jam of cars waiting in line to pick up their kids.
When I went to this same school, the only kids to get picked up at the end of the day were kids with disabilities and a few special occasion situations.
The social-economic specs for the neighborhood was straight middle-class when I lived out here as a kid, but is at least upper middle now.
What's the deal? There are no more child-related crimes than there were 30 years ago. Almost all of these kids live within a mile of the school.
Is it like this everywhere?
[yells off camera: 'Hey, get off my lawn!!']
Today I was out and about in the mid afternoon and found myself in front of my old junior high school... where there was an IMMENSE traffic jam of cars waiting in line to pick up their kids.
When I went to this same school, the only kids to get picked up at the end of the day were kids with disabilities and a few special occasion situations.
The social-economic specs for the neighborhood was straight middle-class when I lived out here as a kid, but is at least upper middle now.
What's the deal? There are no more child-related crimes than there were 30 years ago. Almost all of these kids live within a mile of the school.
Is it like this everywhere?
[yells off camera: 'Hey, get off my lawn!!']