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As a homeschool parent do you ever get a cold chill when you see the government school bus pass by? Do you ever just pull your kids in close and thank God they're there with you, that they've been near you all day? I dunno... maybe I'm weird. The school bus has become to me a symbol of the sad state our society is in. I do sigh sadly when it passes by. It seems so logical once you're standing outside the system, but to those inside the system sticking your child in a big vehicle crammed full of other children nearly every day of his/her young life to transport them to a goverment institution to spend the day being comformed into the image of the State and then relying on that same vehicle to deliver them home just in time for supper... somehow this is the norm. Somehow this is logical and okay. What? Are you kidding? How? Why? I've heard from a lot of parents how horrible they felt putting their 5 or 6yr old on the bus for the first time. But they got used to it. Some even talk about how they miss their little ones being near them all day. I want to shake them (in love)! It doesn't have to be this way! Don't get me started on goverment schools... I'm just thinking of the buses right now. A friend told me just the other day of an accident that occured when she and her sister were riding the bus home from school when they were kids. The bus hit a little girl. The Mom came screaming out into the street after her but it was too late. The bus was there a long time and it was getting late. The children on the bus ended up walking home. Can you imagine? The school bus that delivers children in my parents' neck of the woods drives so fast over the hills and around the bends... My parents have tried to keep up and were unable. They live on a very narrow dirt road and the bus has nearly collided with the trash truck because the driver acts like he's the only one on the road... granted, there isn't room for anyone else. Anyway, scary. I just read a blog post about a woman who was waiting in her living room with her youngest when she heard the bus stop and drop off the 16 kids that were suppose to get off at that stop. She waited for her three but only two arrived. They searched in vain, calling the school and 911, for 45 minutes before they found him hiding in a neighbor's yard. He was six. He'd gotten into a fight with a friend on the bus and was afarid of getting in trouble at home (even though the parent's don't spank). It's not that homeschooler's are exempt from these kinds of occurences. Accidents happen. Children hide. You might someday turn around and notice one of your children missing. You could meet anyone on a narrow dirt road while in your own vehicle. But man... there's just something not right about this school bus thing! I could never, ever, put my kids on a bus! Call me overprotective, but I want my kids near me. I don't want to send them off for the better part of their young lives to make it on their own, being indocrinated by their peers and teachers I only talk to a few times a year... I want them near me not just because I don't want them there. I want them near me because I love them, I enjoy them, they are blessings to me. It's my God-given responsibility and privlage to raise them, not to pass them off to someone else! God will hold Bobby and I accountable. Just felt like ranting. You can go back to whatever it was you were doing now. |
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