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Chris Pruett

Transportation expenses cost schools a lot of money

Posted Wednesday, January 13, 2010, at 3:38 PM
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  • Some kids don't have a brown bag or food to put in it. The lack of humanity by some is amazing.

    -- Posted by Gene Hall68 on Sun, Jan 17, 2010, at 9:20 AM
  • Your naive understand of the world is frightening.

    -- Posted by Gene Hall68 on Mon, Jan 18, 2010, at 1:29 PM
  • Sorry...One more time...It's Monday.

    Your naive understanding of the world is frightening.

    -- Posted by Gene Hall68 on Mon, Jan 18, 2010, at 3:09 PM
  • The school could cut A LOT of money out of the transportation budget if they would stop picking kids up that live so close to the school. When I was a child we were told we "lived to close and couldn't ride the bus". I have been behind buses that are now picking up and dropping off kids less than two blocks from the school. I lived 6 blocks away and walked or rode my bike to school every day, in all kinds of weather, from kindergarten until I got my license. Before the school does completely away with bus service, I hope they can re-evaluate their current system.

    There are already so many complaints about the traffic issues at the school, how are we going to accomodate so many more vehicles picking up and dropping off? It's bad enough that we already have to have a police officer at the school every day in order to make sure everyone is following the correct traffic pattern.

    My husband and I both work till 5:00 and there is no way we could be at the school at 3:00 every day to pick our kids up. I imagine there are a lot of other parents in the same situation as we are. So, I guess I have to change jobs in order to make sure my kids have a ride home every day? Gosh, the only people I can think of that have an 8:00-3:00 schedule are educators? What about every one else??

    -- Posted by jrtdixie on Mon, Jan 18, 2010, at 3:55 PM
  • Article 26.

    (1) Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be Free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit.

    http://liberationcommunity.stanford.edu/TopicPages/dec_HumanRights.html

    Free education???? Anyone exercised the right to a free education for their child and got away with it? Seems that we pay more for elementary student book fees, lab fees and so on than we do when the kids get into high school.

    -- Posted by whatanut on Wed, Jan 20, 2010, at 12:10 PM
  • Amen on the so called free education. If you don't pay for the book fees, etc the school will be on you like a bee is on honey! Have I not seen several names in the paper where the school is sueing some one that hasn't paid book fees? There are several ways a school could cut back. Start by letting the teachers teach the class and not a bunch of so called teaching assistants. When I went to school there was no such thing. The teacher taught you, graded the papers, gave the test, etc. Now days the school is run over with aides to help the teacher. WHY??? If it is too much for the teacher then get a teacher in there that can control the class and do his/her job.

    -- Posted by Scorpio1969 on Sun, Jan 24, 2010, at 5:48 AM
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