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Mom Picks Up Daughter On Horse, School Balks - ParentDish
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A Florida mom rode her horse to school to pick up her daughter. Credit: News4Jax.com​


A Florida mom tried to rein in a new school-dismissal policy -- literally.

A new parking policy at Crystal Springs Elementary School in Jacksonville, Fla., requires parents to wait in line, inside their cars, while the students are released one-by-one. Fed up, one mom showed up on horseback, citing fuel costs and time spent waiting as the reason for her four-legged mode of transportation.
"I don't have the funds in my budget to sit in lines for an hour to two and a half hours to wait for my daughter," said the woman, identified only as Deidre by news station WJXT.

Deidre, who said she and her daughter often ride horses together, was prevented from taking the child home and was ushered off the property by police.

"Our first priority is the safety of our children, and during our arrival/dismissal, their safety is first and foremost a priority on campus," said Principal Jaime Johnson, according to WJXT.Deirdre said Johnson refused to release her daughter, and in fact, pulled the girl back from her mother. "(Johnson) would not turn loose of my daughter's hand," Deidre told WJXT.

The principal stated that she did not think it was safe for the child to ride on horseback through the streets around the school, many of which are under construction.

Instead, a police officer drove the girl home, where she waited alone until her mother arrived.
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Whacky shit!!! It doesn't give the age of the daughter. My daughter is in 1st grade and can walk home alone if she wants (we pick her up). Last year when she was in kindergarten, we had to wait in a line and sometimes it took about 20 minutes to get through the line. If I got there early, I would just park on a side street and walk up there and get her and skip having to wait in the long line of cars.

I can see why they wouldn't want someone walking their horse up because who knows if the horse might kick some kid or cause the kids to rush the horse and make the horse do something it normally wouldn't do.

I can't imagine this lady really having to wait 1 or 2 hours in a line of cars to get the kid.
 
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[quote='BusNative;153468;4]All I know is the moms that pick up their kids from the 3 or 4 schools along Montana Ave. here in Santa Monica / Brentwood are often amazing. Carry on...[/quote]

C'mon you have to have pics:biggrin:
 
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[quote='BusNative;153468;4]All I know is the moms that pick up their kids from the 3 or 4 schools along Montana Ave. here in Santa Monica / Brentwood are often amazing. Carry on...[/quote]

Bro, are you sure those are their moms and not the nannies?

Although, given your comments, it wouldn't matter...
 
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Best Buckeye said:
Nowadays out west the kids just ride the horses themselves.
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it was in jacksonville
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Deidre and her daughters enjoy riding horses."Both my kids compete. My 3-year-old and my 8-year-old, they both compete in junior rodeos," she said.That's why Deidre saw no harm in riding to pick her daughter up from school on horseback, especially since she was trying to prove a point."I don't have the funds in my budget to sit in lines for an hour to two and a half hours to wait for my daughter," she said.Deidre and some other parents are up in arms about a new parking policy at the Crystal Springs Elementary School. Parents are made to line up in their cars and their children are retrieved by the staff one at a time.Deidre said it's a lot less expensive to wait on a horse. But when she arrived at the school, she was ushered off the property by police."Our first priority is the safety of our children, and during our arrival/dismissal, their safety is first and foremost a priority on campus," said Principal Jaime Johnson, who is new to the district.Johnson said the reason she didn't want Deidre and her horse on school property was that it posed a safety issue, but Deidre said horses are gentle and wouldn't harm anyone."(Johnson) would not turn loose of my daughter's hand," Deidre said. "She proceeded to pull my daughter back and squeeze her hand."Deidre said that even when she saddled her horses, the principal wouldn't release her daughter. What she didn't know was that Deidre had driven the horses in a trailer to a friend's house three mailboxes away.An officer drove Deidre's daughter home, where she waited alone until her mother arrived.The school and parents have yet to resolve the issue.Deidre is most upset that her daughter wasn't released to her, but Johnson said that given all of the construction around the school, she didn't think it would be safe for the student to ride horseback on these streets.
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Upset Mom Picks Up Daughter On Horse - Jacksonville News Story - WJXT Jacksonville
 
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jimotis4heisman;1534708; said:
agreed, then again horseback was a viable means of transportation for thousands of years, now its not?
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Of course horses are viable transportation given the proper setting. So are unicycles, skateboards, camels and the Trikke(R). None of which makes a bit of fucking sense as the means to pick up your kid at school.
 
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MaxBuck;1534883; said:
Of course horses are viable transportation given the proper setting. So are unicycles, skateboards, camels and the Trikke(R). None of which makes a bit of [censored]ing sense as the means to pick up your kid at school.
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It only makers sense to those who use them. So who are you to determine the method of pick up for all parents, and who is that principal to deny a child to her parent. I'd sue the principal.
 
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jimotis4heisman;1534708; said:
agreed, then again horseback was a viable means of transportation for thousands of years, now its not?
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Throwing your chamber pot into the street in the morning was a normal event of long time duration too...

The school should not have to pick up the horse [censored] left by that mode of transportation.
 
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MaxBuck;1534883; said:
Of course horses are viable transportation given the proper setting. So are unicycles, skateboards, camels and the Trikke(R). None of which makes a bit of [censored]ing sense as the means to pick up your kid at school.
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says who? seems lots of amish and mennonites find it satisfactory...

Gatorubet;1534903; said:
Throwing your chamber pot into the street in the morning was a normal event of long time duration too...

The school should not have to pick up the horse [censored] left by that mode of transportation.
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i dont think i saw anything about here not cleaning up after the horse?

just saying...
 
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