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October 18th 2008 21:13
A 3-year-old boy was left alone on a school bus for six hours. The bus driver and monitor were arrested and charged with reckless and child endangerment. School officials thought the boy had stayed home and only after the mother came to pick him up was he reported missing.
Let's look closely at this situation. A 3-year-old going to school? Doesn't make sense. May have been a Nursery school. A mother that trusts her 3-year-old with other children and the bus personel? Makes you wonder. The school officials are just covering themselves because a child this young should be confirmed staying home by calling his mother. It just shocks me that this tragedy should have been avoided altogether beginning with the parents.
We seem to hear about it all the time of children being left on the bus for hours. The reasons are because young children have an uncanny ability to hide under the seat and fall asleep. Add to this that we expect people to care for our individual child even in multiple groups of children. It's that whole '...it takes a village' speech by Hillary Clinton, who gives the impression that each child is EVERYBODY else's responsibility. I think she meant the'village' as being the family unit, but as humans we love shifting responsibility to others.
It's unfortunate that the scapegoats are the least common denominators. They are where the buck stops and are thrust with the responsibilities that others neglected to follow. A 3-year-old belongs at home with mom, dad, or a paid babysitter, not on a school bus to shift responsibility and blame.
Let's look closely at this situation. A 3-year-old going to school? Doesn't make sense. May have been a Nursery school. A mother that trusts her 3-year-old with other children and the bus personel? Makes you wonder. The school officials are just covering themselves because a child this young should be confirmed staying home by calling his mother. It just shocks me that this tragedy should have been avoided altogether beginning with the parents.
We seem to hear about it all the time of children being left on the bus for hours. The reasons are because young children have an uncanny ability to hide under the seat and fall asleep. Add to this that we expect people to care for our individual child even in multiple groups of children. It's that whole '...it takes a village' speech by Hillary Clinton, who gives the impression that each child is EVERYBODY else's responsibility. I think she meant the'village' as being the family unit, but as humans we love shifting responsibility to others.
It's unfortunate that the scapegoats are the least common denominators. They are where the buck stops and are thrust with the responsibilities that others neglected to follow. A 3-year-old belongs at home with mom, dad, or a paid babysitter, not on a school bus to shift responsibility and blame.
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