Wednesday, March 7, 2001

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

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