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Are you amazed that more elementary school kids don't get hit by cars during the crazy drop-off and pick-up madness?

Asked by Val123 (12734points) March 11th, 2010

As a perk of my new job I get to be a bus driver for two of my grandkids. Of course, I’ve been doing the pick up and drop off detail for years, at different times and for different kids, and the thoughtlessness of so many adults during that hectic, crazy period just floors me. People fly through there at 30 miles an hour like there aren’t kids everywhere. (I almost got hit by two cars flying around the corner, both drivers talking on cell phones.) People parking on street on the opposite side of the school and just throwing open their car doors without looking and shooing little kids out to run across the street alone. Pick up is even worse. Parents standing on the other side of the street honking for their kids to run across the street to them. I’ve seen so many close calls. I think there should be a law that elementary school kids must be escorted across the street by an adult, and they should have cops stationed to hand out tickets. City’d make a killing.

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