Parents are charged after their son, 7, is struck dead in a car accident
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Gastonia, N.C., police charged the parents with involuntary manslaughter charges after allowing the victim and his brother to walk home alone from a nearby grocery store.
  • adarza@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 days ago

    more than one place i’ve lived at had a busy road be the ‘line’ separating bus vs walk to school. where i am now some literally get bussed across the road and then another block to the school, while some who live up to a mile away on the ‘same side’ of that road as the school get to walk.

    • Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 days ago

      The neighborhood I grew up in let kids walk to school but now parents pick their kids up in cars just across the street from the school instead of making them walk all the way home.

      (Though some may be skirting residency requirements so I’m not too mad.)

      Then again, back in my day they didn’t have padlocks on the fences.