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Four-in-10 Dublin children driven to school every day

Mizu_Ger

http://www.independent.ie/breaking-news/national-news/fourin10-dublin-children-driven-to-school-every-day-1117542.html

No wonder the roads are jammed in the morning. Surely its not that dangerous to let a child (of reasonable age) walk or cycle to school (accompanied by fat-arsed parent if need be).

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Degsy

brim4brim wrote:

Exactly just teach kids to hate and fear bearded people and the problem is solved over night!

Only people with full-face beards mind.People with goatees are okay.;)

thebman

Exactly just teach kids to hate and fear bearded people and the problem is solved over night!

Why don't we have buses to primary schools? There was never one to my primary school but I didn't have a problem with my mother driving me since she was a teacher there.

For secondary school, we had a bus that used to take us to the top of the road from the local primary school and then we transferred to the bus to take us to our school.

What happened to Irish services, the government gets more of our money than ever and all they spend it on is keeping e-fraud voting machines locked up and funding consumer agencies that don't protect the consumer at all (see link in sig).

Of course when the Taoiseach is a person under investigation and the people act like he's god, why can you expect?

Ghost Train

would have thought it would be higher than 4 in 10

I used get a lift in the car to school, but I'd walk home

There was that story of some weirdo who flashed some kids a few times

Degsy

There were allways horror stories about Evil Men hanging around schools and attempting to grab kids.Nobody i knew had ever actually seen one but they allways had beards apparantly.

BaZmO*

Of course they're being driven to school. With the amount of psychos and paedos out there you'd be mad to let your kids so much as walk 2 feet of the journey to school. :rolleyes:

I also find it quite ironic that back in the day when it was ok to walk to school it wasn't the sicko strangers that you needed to worry about it was the people that were looking after you!!

eth0_

My parents made me get the bus to school from the age of around 11.
There's few kids who genuinely live outside the scope of walking or public transport.

As for not letting them walk because "Have you seen how people drive??" - i'm sure these parents have no qualms about letting their kids out onto the streets to get them out of the house at weekends and evenings.

Degsy

I dont think i was ever driven to school.When i was in primary we used to walk to school(often in a gang as protection from perverts lol),and when i got to secondry i used to a have a good walk AND a bus journey.Bloody stupid women in thier 4x4s parking half on the road,half on the path really get on my nerves,and are usually responsibel for the bottlenecks outside primary schools.

Mizu_Ger

Dragan wrote:

Hmmmm , i get the feeling you might not have been a pedestrian for a while?

Have you ****ing seen the way some people drive at that time in the morning? No way would i let my kid walk or cycle till they were in secondary school.

The bus is all good though, no?

I've been cycling all my life (since school

), so I know what the roads are like, but one of the parents could at least walk with them.

GhostInTheRuins

A few years ago on the way to school, me and a few mates stopped in one of the estates opposite the school because one of them wanted a smoke before going in. We were about 30 meters maximum from the school gates. On the opposite side of the road a mother and a kid from the school came out of their house, hopped into the car and drove the kid to school. I couldn't believe what I was seeing and thought that maybe the mother was going to the shops or something and decided to drop he daughter off on the way. Not a chance, about a minute later, the car comes back and the mother goes back into the house. Talk about lazy.

Terry

In my day we walked barefoot through mountains.

Obese kids FTW.

Doctor DooM

Every parent in the school in newcastle seems to have some huge SUV parked precariously on the edge of the road, making the trip plenty dangerous for those of us trying to get by.

Thats said I dont notice the children walking. Because they AREN'T in a a huge ass car.

Mossy Monk

I think 9/10 children are driven to school in Waterford. It is ridiculous. But then the bus is ****.

Dragan

Hmmmm , i get the feeling you might not have been a pedestrian for a while?

Have you ****ing seen the way some people drive at that time in the morning? No way would i let my kid walk or cycle till they were in secondary school.

The bus is all good though, no?