[lbo-talk] Race to Nowhere | Slate

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Mon May 2 20:05:51 PDT 2011


But not letting a kid walk four blocks seems more like paranoia than liking the kid.

Carrdol

On 5/2/2011 9:50 PM, Eubulides wrote:
> On 5/2/2011 12:12 PM, Mark Bennett wrote:
>
>> Do kids still play? I haven't any myself, so I don't know. I certainly
>> don't see kids playing anywhere in my daily travels. You don't even see
>> kids riding bikes very much. My colleagues who have school age
>> children seem
>> to spend every free moment, and many that aren't free, driving their
>> children everywhere. On former colleague used to leave the office
>> early to
>> drive her 16-year daughter to "cheer practice" - although her family
>> lived
>> four blocks from the high school.
>
> =================
>
> As difficult as it is to believe sometimes, some parents like their
> teenage kids more than they like their boss. Absent a mass strike,
> what's that Homer Simpson line?
>
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