Mother to face charges for unusual punishment

[proud2BlibKansan]

JONESBORO, AR (CNN/KAIT) – Valerie Borders forced her 10-year-old son to walk nearly five miles to school as punishment after his school suspended his bus privileges for the fifth time due to yelling.

Although fourth grader Nequavion Borders said he learned his lesson, his mother is in trouble with the law for her punishment.

"She did the right thing, she knew that I had been suspended off the bus five days, so she didn't do nothing wrong. She made me walk. I just had to walk. They shouldn't have picked me up. I could've walked by myself, " said Nequavion.

On Monday, his mother ordered him to walk to school, almost five miles from their home. During his walk he crossed a bank parking lot, catching the eye of a security guard surprised to see a child alone in the area.

more . . . http://www.kctv5.com/story/16957477/mother-faces-charges-for-unusual-punishment

[Art_from_Ark]

1. Damn, when I was a 10 years old, I was in all sorts of places I shouldn't have been,

at least, according to today's nanny-staters. Heck, I walked my dog 4 or 5 miles along the railroad tracks, rode my bicycle to neighboring towns (some as far as 10 miles away), and no one called the cops.

However, saying that, I would never have forced my kids to walk that distance to school.

[Shankapotomus]

5. No one called the cops

because no one knew. Now that you've spilled the beans, you're in big trouble, buddy. Big trouble.

[Art_from_Ark]

6. I think the statute of limitations has run out

That was back in the '60s.

And, even as a 9-year-old kid on a Buzz bike, I asked someone in a neighboring town for directions to Oklahoma (which was about 30 miles away), no one called the cops on me

[boppers]

2. What the heck? It was a five mile walk.

That's hardly an "endangering" activity.... It's walking. Sheesh.

[safeinOhio]

3. Only if there was 3 feet of snow

and it was up hill both ways.

[boppers]

4. Classic routine.

And people wonder why we have an obesity epidemic?

[newfie11]

7. Again this country has gone insane! n/t

[get the red out]

8. Oh my how dangerous!

He might have gotten exercise! He might have learned that there are consequences to his actions!

Horrible, just horrible.

[Codeine]

9. We've grown so paranoid we think a child walking to school

is in so much immediate danger that it warrants punishment of the parent. Fucking nonsense.