Was Buck taking the kids to the racetrack THAT bad??

It's not the worst thing (I wouldn't do that to my own kids). The scene wasn't really about whether taking the kids to the track was the right thing, but rather on the subject of letting Tia get used. Buck was simply going to let Tia face the consiquenses of her actions, untill he looked at Miles and Maisy. What he saw was that no matter how old his niece becomes, he'll always see Tia as a little girl.

I know! my second grade class went to Bellmont for breakfast. for breakfast. and this was catholic school.

and that was our only trip for the year.

but I guess anything is better than our kindergarten trip.

we saw a stop sign.

the one at the end of the road.

we needed a permission slip to go to the end of the road.

Oh God. Fortune vomits on my eiderdown once more.

I have always scratched my head about this. It's clear that it's admit

I don’t think he had an issue with taking them to the track. His issue is that the didn’t want to leave the girl who went to the party; he wanted to go find her.

I would take kids of any age to a horse race track. It's a beautiful sports event.

It's not the kind of place to take small children, between the gambling and shady characters around there. But yeah it wouldn't be the worst thing he could do with them. But there were other factors.

1) Their parents would never have approved of it.
2) He wasn't just going to there to bet on some horses. He was going to get inside information, which might not have been completely legal. Chanice accuses him of cheating on a race.
3) He was worried about Tia.
4) He saw the looks on the younger kids faces when they were about to leave, and how they tried to put on a fake smile for him. Even they knew he shouldn't be doing this.