Perhaps some of you parents out there can explain the mystery of Elementary School Car Lines to me. Living in the Atlanta suburbs, I was stuck in traffic several times because of people dropping their kids off for school.

So, what is the deal? When I was a kid we rode the 'cheesewagon'. Actually, when I was in first grade, we lived too close to the school for bussing, so I had to walk. Being dropped off in a car was never even an option. Are today's kids spoiled? Is bussing available for these kids, but they just don't want to ride it? Are parents afraid of kidnapping or something?

None of these sound like good excuses. What happened to the good old days of sending your kid out into the freezing weather to wait at the bus stop. As for kidnapping, we all had enough street smarts to stay out of harms way.