posted on June 22, 2001 02:48:10 PM new
Children Abandoned on Dallas Bus by Mom, Grandmother
Three children were abandoned on a Dallas city bus by their mother and grandmother, who both refused to pick them up from a bus stop, officials said Friday.
The 9-year-old twin boys and their 8-year-old sister were put on the bus Thursday by an older sister, who told the driver their grandmother would pick them up at a stop near her home, Dallas Area Rapid Transit spokesman Morgan Lyons said.
The grandmother showed up at the bus stop but refused to take the children. She told the Dallas Morning News she needed a break after taking care of the kids, her daughter-in-law's, for the past nine months.
The bus driver then alerted transit police, who called the children's mother on her cell phone and told her the children would be handed over to Child Protective Services if she didn't pick them up.
``She told the officer to go ahead, that she didn't care,'' Lyons said.
The children were put in a foster home, Child Protective Services spokeswoman Stacie Ladd said.
The agency was trying to find the children's two older siblings, a 14-year-old sister and 16-year-old brother, to put them in foster care. Three more siblings from the same family were already living with relatives in another part of the state, Ladd said.
Lyons said it was not known yet if criminal charges would be pressed against either the mother or grandmother.
None of the family was named by officials. The grandmother told the newspaper her son, the children's father, lived with her after separating from the mother.
posted on June 22, 2001 02:52:20 PM new
so what do you expect from a country that sucks live fetus's out of the wombs' of women and calls it a "right".
posted on June 22, 2001 03:17:44 PM new
Hello Hepburn,
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posted on June 22, 2001 03:28:36 PM new
I edited from whence it originally came. Hope that is good enough. If not, just delete the thread. The other one too.
posted on June 22, 2001 03:40:08 PM new
Geez, is birth-control a thing of the past? What's with these women that insist on having litters of children they can't look after?
I think you should have to show your financial statements to whoever, before you should be allowed to have children.
Like, what are the chances of these children growing up as balanced, productive adults?
Basic logic seems to be missing with alot of people anymore. Are there really THAT many people out there that don't get it?
posted on June 22, 2001 03:47:41 PM new
oh kraft , you know why they have them...to get the welfare check...they made enough money on them and now they will just let the state take care of them. Moms probably on crack and grandma is worn out from taking care of them. Mom is probably really depressed and needs medication, like a baseball bat. I think baseball bats would be very effective anti-depressant. If I knew I was going to get hit in the head with one I would change my attitude really fast. Also, Dad is in jail...he needs bat therapy too.
posted on June 22, 2001 09:38:54 PM new
This is off topic, artdoggy, but I have found your posts to be rather entertaining (if provocative). You might, however, want to reconsider your statement that you are "smarter than most people" (as you stated in another thread) when you have several punctuation errors in your two posts on this thread.
No offense intended, but I'm sure you realize that there are enough experts in various fields on these boards that something stated as fact is subject to (sometimes intense) scrutiny.
posted on June 23, 2001 02:57:54 AM new
"Smarter than most people" could logically be taken to mean more highly educated (or at the level of higher education by virtue of being well read), which usually manifests itself in both the spoken and written word. Granted, there are intelligent people who can't spell worth a darn and use improper grammar. However, when someone makes a point of mentioning that she is smart and then makes elementary mistakes, it does seem a bit anomalous.
posted on June 23, 2001 07:34:02 AM new
I disagree. I think that an intelligent mind could realize that overattention to form is not only restrictive to free and active thought but is also indicative of a rather severe constriction of the development of psychological maturity. Some theorist termed it anal retentiveness.
posted on June 23, 2001 07:53:17 AM new
Hmmm. Sounds like the justification for "new math" some years ago (and I think its counterpart in English was called the "whole language" approach). Seems to me I remember that educators and parents found it wasn't successful and wanted to go back to teaching the basics.
I don't think that knowing the simple, basic rules of a subject like English or mathematics restricts free-flowing or creative thought. On the contrary, once you have learned the building blocks (the "rules" ) of a subject, there would actually be MORE freedom of expression since you would not be hampered by ignorance. Perhaps artdoggy was simply the victim of misguided schooling and I am being unduly harsh on her and others.
Without eBay, I might have a real life...
[edited to get rid of an errant smiley]
[ edited by mcbrunnhilde on Jun 23, 2001 07:57 AM ]
posted on June 23, 2001 08:15:40 AM new"Seems to me I remember that educators and parents found it wasn't successful and wanted to go back to teaching the basics"
Of course it was unsuccessful. The percentage of receptive students will always be low, an for those the 'basics' push the limitations inherent to the largest percentage of the population. I don't see that as relevant to a discussion of intelligence; rather, it is relevant in justifying the continuation of a norm as an ideal.
