Posted on 06/23/2008 6:32:36 AM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner
Here's how rising fuel prices affect an organization with a fleet of 1,273 school buses: The Montgomery County school board today will consider giving Superintendent Jerry D. Weast emergency powers to make students walk farther to school, if need be, in the coming academic year.
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Should prices continue to rise, the school system could save money by raising maximum walking distances for students, because more walkers means fewer buses. Currently, elementary school students walk up to a mile, middle school students 1.5 miles and high school students two miles.
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You had feet?
Excellent post. Here in Indy there was an all black highschool years ago. The black community took great pride in it.
It is gone now.
Maybe you got recess too.
That is cut out now.
Re: “liberal answers have created problems that didn’t exist before.”
I assert, and haven’t been offered a viable counter example, that there is no problem we face today that isn’t the result of, or been exacerbated by, some liberal policy.
That being said - you all think it’s great that kids are going to be walking more,
but this is what the left has in store for ALL of us. Their policies are an indirect effort to control your consumption and ability to travel.
Your idea wouldn’t be so bad if the fat bureaucrats who take all the dough were walking too? Or how bout the good old days when you could walk to school somewhat safely without porn-fueled middle aged men looking to score with a kid?
That should have been good, except I found myself wandering off like I did when my teachers showed me a film in class.
:o)
Your idea wouldn’t be so bad if the fat bureaucrats who take all the dough were walking too? Or how bout the good old days when you could walk to school somewhat safely without porn-fueled middle aged men looking to score with a kid?
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Yep. My kids wouldn’t walk to school like I did, never.
I walked through a patch of woods to get to the road to walk to school. At 9, I was in charge of four or five of the younger ones in the complex and delivered them to their doors.
Not that we didn’t have serial killers back then, but it certainly wasn’t like what it is today. And people actually got involved when they saw someone struggling with a child. Quizzed them at least. Once my daughter was pitching a tantrum in a store and I carried her out kicking and screaming. It ran through my mind, why isn’t anyone stopping me?
The issue is not having kids walk to school (which I have no problem with in a NORMAL SAFE ENVIRONMENT, which Montgomery County most assuredly is NOT), but the fact that Montgomery County is targeting them (and their safety make their parents howl and accept new taxes, when cutting its bloated administration should be the first thing done.
He ain’t heavy,he’s my brother.
I agree MrB on what the left has in mind.
They want to control our travel and communication.
Why is it that so many people are blind to that?
That said, I still have good memories of walking to school:)
My kids Dad used to tell them how far he had to walk to school when he was a kid. They always added.......barefoot.
Attention Deficit Disorder is SUCH a tragic thing.
Now take your RITILIN and lie down.
Today in my neck of the woods, they pay adults to cross the kids.....whatever happened to older kids doing it?? I remember we did think it was an honor to be a cross guard.
Never could convince my kids I walked for miles, uphill both way, in the snow.
They just didn’t buy into the concept of snow at all.
Attention Deficit Disorder is SUCH a tragic thing.
Now take your RITILIN and lie down.
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Dangit. Called out again.
I live in Montgomery County. It has a lot of sidewalks and a lot of busy streets. A child ten or up with common sense could handle walking through most of the County. I wouldn’t want the young kids out, though.
Then again, my philosophy of parenting is “if you let your kid going walking alone outside, you have a 1 in a 100,000 chance that he or she will be abducted by some freak. If you keep your child locked inside all the time, you have about a 90 percent chance he or she will grow up to be a fat dull person. Go with the odds.”
Same here, and it didn't kill me. We didn't have a car, and if we went anywhere, we walked or we took the bus.
Funny thing. I see buses bound to and from the high school half full. By junior year, a lot of kids are driving to school and taking several friends with them, so buses are not full by any means. At least that’s the case in our school district. Maybe they should do a better job of calculating how many kids will be taking the bus and drive smaller buses.
My kids used to walk the 1/4 mile to and from their school, but now the bus picks up kids near me due to safety concerns.
Depends on where you’re at, I guess. I work down in the seedy part of Rockville (near the Metro) where there are few sidewalks and many shady looking characters that I wouldn’t want my kid to go anywhere near.
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