Originally Posted By: GROUCHO MARX
In the area I grew up in, one either walked to school or took public transportation. The idea of everybody needing a school bus was most foreign (but it was a fairly urban existance, still. today, school buses are ubiquitous now in the same area).
The pedophiles were just told to move out of town and no longer get involved in youth sports or boy scouts. It was kept hushed up.
The Georgia city I grew up in had sort of a reverse desegregation thing. They would cherry pick white students to get bussed into the inner-city school. Since I rode the bus to the inner-city school, they did not have to bus African American children to the "nice white school" (that had air conditioning. My school did not. Ever been in coastal Georgia on a late summer day? It's not refreshing and cool, it's hot)
The pedophiles were above reproach and unassailiable. Often (but not limited to) church leaders. To speak out against one meant that at the minimum, you would destroy your own credibility. The little girl who spoke out against our church's bishop went "away". Her family still attended services. She was absent and nothing was spoken of her again. She was not seen playing in the neighborhood. She was just gone.
Another little girl's family was disfellowshipped. The rumor was that the family had "bore false witness against the church." She was one of the kids on my side of the street that went to the inner-city school and rode the bus with me. She never smiled again, nor did she speak.
In the area I grew up in, one either walked to school or took public transportation. The idea of everybody needing a school bus was most foreign (but it was a fairly urban existance, still. today, school buses are ubiquitous now in the same area).
The pedophiles were just told to move out of town and no longer get involved in youth sports or boy scouts. It was kept hushed up.
The Georgia city I grew up in had sort of a reverse desegregation thing. They would cherry pick white students to get bussed into the inner-city school. Since I rode the bus to the inner-city school, they did not have to bus African American children to the "nice white school" (that had air conditioning. My school did not. Ever been in coastal Georgia on a late summer day? It's not refreshing and cool, it's hot)
The pedophiles were above reproach and unassailiable. Often (but not limited to) church leaders. To speak out against one meant that at the minimum, you would destroy your own credibility. The little girl who spoke out against our church's bishop went "away". Her family still attended services. She was absent and nothing was spoken of her again. She was not seen playing in the neighborhood. She was just gone.
Another little girl's family was disfellowshipped. The rumor was that the family had "bore false witness against the church." She was one of the kids on my side of the street that went to the inner-city school and rode the bus with me. She never smiled again, nor did she speak.
