Comment This actually happened to me. (Score 1) 545
We are a therapeutic foster home working with difficult children...
15 years ago I had a school therapist tell me with one child "if they can't behave in the car on the way to school, kick them out and let them walk the rest of the way." It's an effective tool.
I tried that again a couple of years ago. I pulled over 1/2 mile from school, and told the child to walk. I followed to make sure nothing happened. Someone called the police. I asked the cop "since when is it illegal for a child to walk to school?" He told me he could arrest me for child endangerment, but he wasn't going to bother because the DA would throw it out. Then he called DHHS, and they took the child from me because I "used bad judgment". A couple of months later they gave me the child again because no one else could handle her.