School bus riding: Set your alarm earlier, Kerry

School bus riding:

Set your alarm earlier, Kerry

Kerry FitzPatrick, the Starr's

Mill teen who would educate the rest of the world as to whom should ride

the school bus, is a classic model of a slow learner. There are two glaring

examples.

First, in spite of the pounding

she deservedly took for her letter, she came back for more. She was foolish

to write her first letter, but her effort to try and justify it was pathetic.

Secondly, she mentioned that

the day after the responses to her letter appeared in print, it rained

and students were late again. How many times must this happen, Ms. FitzPatrick,

before the solution occurs to you and your clueless classmates?

When rain is projected for

the morning, reset your alarm and get your self-centered self out of bed

earlier and leave for school earlier! I guess changing the rest of the

world is always easier than having to make the changes oneself.

My daughters get two rides

a year to school if they miss the bus. They walk after that. My eighth

grader has walked the two and a half miles to booth twice this year. Slow

learner? Yes. Spoiled teen. Not at all. If they have activities before

or after school, I will provide the transportation. Arriving early or

late, I find no traffic, rain or otherwise.

We do, though, have some self-centered

parents at McIntosh. There is a stop-to-let-out lane along the curb for

parents to pull over, unload, and then move back into the drive-through

lane to leave the school.

It is staggering how many idiot

parents are too special to pull over to the curb, insisting instead to

hold up all those cars ready to exit while their little darling leaves

the vehicle. I guess this is behavior we can expect from adult Kerrys.

Miss Kerry wants adult privileges

and opinions, but she does not want the rest of us to exercise ours. Lord

help us if she is headed to Georgia Tech in the fall. It will be a momentous

task to convince all those downtown commuters to yield to the princess.

Bill Webster

Peachtree City