You have to feel for today’s students that attend public school, well some of them anyway. I watch as some arrive here in the dark outside the house to wait on a bus to pick them up at 6am. That means they are on that bus for 2.5 hours before school starts. Then 6.5 hours of school and another couple of hours back home. It’s just sad that transportation in the US is that horrible for most kids.

I guess our little ones have moved on this year as I only see one kid outside waiting for the bus this morning on the first real day of school. He looks about 10 years old. I guess the kindergarten and grade school kids have moved on. Such is life in a trailer park though I guess. I guess we won’t have any pulling up flowers, bashing our vehicles by kicking basketballs into them, or batting rocks over the traffic on the highway with a plastic bat. Unless they show up later in the week…

I remember my days of walking to school instead of a bus, it taught me social skills and how to behave. Of course many of us then were born of parents that instilled values and common sense.  In today’s world it is too dangerous to allow kids to walk to school. Just what does that say for us as a society in the top country of the world, or are we still.