One Texas elementary school is coming under fire after the principal banned parents from walking their children to and from school, and who is threatening parents with arrest.
The trouble began in September when the principal at Bear Branch Elementary School in Magnolia, Texas, decided to implement a policy that not just discourages but prohibits parents from walking their children home from school or walking inside the school to retrieve their children after parents had parked their cars, according to KPRC-TV.
Parents began expressing their frustration because of the inconvenience they said they felt waiting for almost an hour in their cars. Parents were asked pick up their children only in the school’s winding pick-up lane after school.
“People start lining up here about 2:30 p.m. for a 3:25 p.m. dismissal,” parent Jeff Wendinger had told KPRC.
Parent Jackie McConnell say’s she’s frustrated, too: “It’s a ridiculous situation for everyone.”
But now some people are expressing outrage because the principal has threatened parents who persist in walking their children home from school with charges for trespassing or other criminal charges, according to KRIV-TV. Parents have also begun pulling their kids from school over the issue.
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7 comments:
This will only continue if they get away with it.
Whose kids are they? The school's?
Get a lawyer and fry this principal.. make a public example of him/her.
Schools want to have everything their way. They want 100% power over the children, yet when a child is failing it is the parents fault. Many people drive their child to school because of problems on the bus. The children don't feel safe on the bus or instead of a 10 to 15 minute bus ride home they ride it for an hour. Sometimes the child has a doctor or other appointment after school and there is no time to wait for the child to get home using the bus and get to the appointment.
216 public shamming? Isn't that the problem with the world now?
We just walked a mile to school every day when I was a kid. Yes, 3 feet of snow would cancel a day or make it optional, but day 2, school was open again.
That would probably be looked upon as child abuse today.
So stupid... Get a life.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
216 public shamming? Isn't that the problem with the world now?
April 7, 2016 at 3:35 PM
men marrying men. likewise with women, liars, thieves, murderers, (and that's just members of congress), parents killing their kids, kids killing their parents, kids having babies, and a ton of other social ills and you think shaming is the problem with the world?
the problem is more likely no one has any shame. how can they with some of the crap they do?
progress
They should be riding the school bus.
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