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09-10-2009, 01:49 AM
Mom Picks Up Daughter On Horse, School Balks
by Amy Hatch (RSS feed) Sep 5th 2009 7:12PM
A Florida mom tried to rein in a new school-dismissal policy -- literally.
A new parking policy at Crystal Springs Elementary School in Jacksonville, Fla., requires parents to wait in line, inside their cars, while the students are released one-by-one. Fed up, one mom showed up on horseback, citing fuel costs and time spent waiting as the reason for her four-legged mode of transportation.
"I don't have the funds in my budget to sit in lines for an hour to two and a half hours to wait for my daughter," said the woman, identified only as Deidre by news station WJXT.
http://www.parentdish.com/2009/09/05/mom-picks-up-daughter-on-horse-school-balks/
Pretty much everyone who commented on the article, with little exception, has come in firmly on the mother's side on this. I am these people, and I swear to God, the day a principal tries to tell me I can't have my kid, when they know damn good and well that I'm the parent, is the day that principal is going to jail for unlawful confinement of a minor. And the cops dropped the ball too, leaving the kid back at the house alone, where the vast majority of accidents for kids actually happen.
by Amy Hatch (RSS feed) Sep 5th 2009 7:12PM
A Florida mom tried to rein in a new school-dismissal policy -- literally.
A new parking policy at Crystal Springs Elementary School in Jacksonville, Fla., requires parents to wait in line, inside their cars, while the students are released one-by-one. Fed up, one mom showed up on horseback, citing fuel costs and time spent waiting as the reason for her four-legged mode of transportation.
"I don't have the funds in my budget to sit in lines for an hour to two and a half hours to wait for my daughter," said the woman, identified only as Deidre by news station WJXT.
http://www.parentdish.com/2009/09/05/mom-picks-up-daughter-on-horse-school-balks/
Pretty much everyone who commented on the article, with little exception, has come in firmly on the mother's side on this. I am these people, and I swear to God, the day a principal tries to tell me I can't have my kid, when they know damn good and well that I'm the parent, is the day that principal is going to jail for unlawful confinement of a minor. And the cops dropped the ball too, leaving the kid back at the house alone, where the vast majority of accidents for kids actually happen.