Reason 465 to HomeSchool: Your Kid’s Bus Stop Won’t Be the Pedophile’s House

School starts today. You should find out where your kid’s bus stop is located and then cross-check that with your state’s sex offender registry. Otherwise when your kid gets off of the bus at the end of the day, a pedophile might think it is like pizza delivery.

In Summerville, South Carolina, the local school board neglected to check to see if the bus stop was too close to a sex offender’s house. But worse than a school system not checking, is the fact that if they did, and there was a requirement to keep the stops 1000 feet away from a sex offender’s house, your kid couldn’t get on a bus in that town.

From Post and Courier here:

For the past two weeks, children in a Summerville neighborhood have been getting on and off their school bus in front of a registered sex offender’s house. A couple with three children — ages 14, 12 and 9 — asked officials in Dorchester District 2 to move the bus stop, and district leaders agreed to do it.

Officials from local school districts said they follow state law when establishing bus routes. The law also requires districts to consider certain traffic hazards. But it doesn’t require them to place bus stops a certain distance from the homes of convicted sex offenders.

Donald Tudor, the department’s director of transportation, said it would be difficult to consider sex offenders’ residences when selecting bus stops. And other states that have imposed laws requiring sex offenders to live certain distances from bus stops are having problems enforcing them, he said. There are many registered sex offenders, Tudor said. If South Carolina required that no bus stop be placed within 1,000 feet of the home of a registered sex offender, “in certain little neighborhoods, it would be impossible to have a bus stop.”

Dang South Carolina. Ick. Time to start building sex-offender colonies and forcing them to live there. Oh, and maybe put a tall boundary around the colony, some nice bars on the windows and call it jail.