I enjoyed the comedy piece written by former School Board member Marla Wolkowitz (“Seems Uncomplicated: Getting Your Child to School Safely,” Wednesday).
During her (far too) long and unproductive tenure on the Board of Education, culminating with her graduation speech telling high school students that they ought to travel the world (as if all of these students all had the means to afford such luxury), I always assumed that Ms. Wolkowitz was not the sharpest knife in the drawer. Now I wonder if perhaps she fell out of the drawer onto her head long ago.
Ms. Wolkowitz writes, "Parents should map out, try out, and then demonstrate the very safest route they want their children to walk to school.”
“But parents still have to get out of the house slightly earlier if they are driving their children to school, and kids must leave their homes on time to arrive before the bell.”
And then, “Parents should never double-park to drop their kids off; kids shouldn’t dart between cars,” and on and on.
Wow, what revelations.
In Wolkowitz’s World, all people should obey the law, so naturally, we won’t need locks on our doors.
Indeed, in Wolkowitz’s World, we don’t even need the police. Think about the savings
In Wolkowitz’s World, people should be careful with flammables and ignition sources, so we might as well disband the Fire Dept., too. Yet, more savings.
There’d be no such thing as a financial crisis in Wolkowitz’s World, as virtually all services, like the Police Dept. and Fire Dept. would be disbanded, and the huge sums we continue to pay for these now-unnecessary departments could be passed back to the residents.
I kind of like Wolkowitz’s World.
No need for a smoking ban, because we all know that smoking is hazardous to the smoker and those around the smoker. People shouldn’t smoke, so they won’t. No problems with too high high-rises, as no one would think of obstructing anyone’s view or adding any additional traffic.
In Wolkowitz’s World, all drivers drive carefully, never double park, and are alert at all times, especially around schools.
Actually, Ms. Wolkowitz ought to be consulting with the people at Disney, as Wolkowitz’s World is nothing short of Fantasy Land.
Parents and children are going to be late for school. It is an unfortunate fact.
Parenthetically, I believe that the boy who was hit was actually an hour early for school at the time of his accident.
Unless convinced otherwise, parents are going to double park, children are going to dart, drivers are going to be inattentive. To think otherwise is foolish.
The police need to convince these offending parents by writing tickets. When it gets too expensive to double park, these parents will change their ways.
Block the street, get a ticket.
Speed around the schools, get a ticket. Double park, get a ticket.
It won’t take long to get that message across.
Shortly thereafter, parents will get their kids to school earlier, parents will walk with their children, and parents will take the necessary measures to find available, legal parking so that they can get their children to school on time.
We live in Culver City, not Wolkowitz’s World. We cannot possibly expect that the mere suggestion to parents to walk to school with their children will solve this problem.
