First Day at School
Posted by Guy on April 10, 2009
Kids Who Didn’t Get Killed Yesterday Can Go Back to School Today
My son “T” was very excited yesterday because it was his first day at school. If he is lucky, perhaps he could finish the academic year without getting run over by a car.
Two schoolkids in Hiroshima weren’t so lucky. They were killed by a bus, yesterday.
About 60 or so kids with at least one parent attended the new academic year’s opening ceremony and sang the national anthem. There were speeches after speeches, but the one that should have alarmed most every parent was the accident statistics.
A 75-year-old volunteer who heads a team of local parents and grandparents advising on road safety told us that 3 people had been killed on the roads near the school last year.
Most drivers in Japanifik lack the brain capacity for driving safely [this is a fact, not an insult,] and are not conditioned to respect the traffic laws. However, the government can easily prevent most of these tragic deaths. But both they and the police force lack the moral courage, professionalism and political will to do anything about it.
