The mom message chain is sharing that another one on my middle schoolers' friends who lives on our neighborhood got hit by a driver on his way to school today. He usually bikes on the sidewalk in the area of the arterial streets.
I'm sure people think I'm pathetic not letting my kid bike 1.5mi to/from school and carpooling/city bus home. These kids were going the safer 2-mi route. I'm exhausted. This is now the 4th, 5th & 6th kids in his IMMEDIATE friend group struck by drivers going to/from this specific school from our neighborhood.
@HayiWena no, not judging that parenting decision, and sorry that's a shitty situation, sad for the kids that got hurt and also sad for the others that could be having a great time together enjoying the independent mobility that a car-brained system has stolen from them.
@enobacon Maybe I just feel pathetic being an LCI and unable to "educate" my own kid to a point I feel he would be safe? I just feel sick (literally, we have strep in the house) and powerless. And mad. And sad.
@HayiWena system designed to grind you down, working as-designed, sorry. Stay hydrated. (LCI?) Teaching kids is so hard, supposedly they learn by example but only the stuff you wanted to teach them to do differently, afaict.
@HayiWena ah, thanks, I remember you've mentioned that but the LCI acronym threw me, looking for Eng context.
I can't convince their mom (or myself, TBH) that I could possibly teach our kids (10 and 13) to ride safely on their own around here. So many rules where you need to "break the rules", that are probably not part of the League curriculum. Like when is it safer to use the wrong-side sidewalk than to make a two-stage left or wait for the vehicular left arrow? 😞
These three 13yo kids bike train to jazz band/orchestra at 6:50am. They ride on the sidewalk along the 30mph street. They cross at the signal. They do exactly what they are supposed to do. They must have been stuck by a driver in the intersection.
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