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Fuel Costs May Force Some Kids To Walk
The Washington Post ^ | June 23, 2008 | Daniel de Vise

Posted on 06/23/2008 6:32:36 AM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner

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To: indylindy

“Here in Indy there was an all black highschool years ago. The black community took great pride in it.”
.....when I went to high school in Maryland there were three schools in town: White, Black and Catholic....the Black one still stands and it’s graduates still hold reunions there....it’s used as a cultural center now days....I gave them a donation....I think whites and blacks of my generation got along better....whites are afraid of young blacks today because of gang violence.


41 posted on 06/23/2008 7:31:48 AM PDT by STONEWALLS
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To: ishabibble

The horror!


42 posted on 06/23/2008 7:34:01 AM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

At age 11 I was screwing up big time in class so my parents took my bike away and made me walk 2 miles to school and back each day. For the next month I walked one block over to my friend’s house, ate breakfast there then rode on his handlebars to and from school. A great memory!


43 posted on 06/23/2008 7:38:25 AM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: Dick Bachert
"But, of course, as every socialist, double-domed educrat knows, a BLACK WHITE KID is simply incapable of learning diversity unless he or she is sitting next to a WHITE BLACK KID."
44 posted on 06/23/2008 7:41:56 AM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: ThisLittleLightofMine

Yep, the cool guys were crossing guards. You know back then so many kids walked that walk 2 times a day, it would have been hard for a pervert to grab a kid.

Seems most of our worst problems have been created. I guess I am like every adult that thinks back to how much better life was. Truth is, it really was.

Sometimes I can shut my eyes and remember smells, and even small moments that could be thought of as irrelevant. LOL


45 posted on 06/23/2008 7:45:22 AM PDT by dforest (I had almost forgotten that McCain is the nominee. Too bad I was reminded.)
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To: Dick Bachert
Hey, are they still busing black kids to black schools in Prince Georges' County? The middle/uppermiddle class black kids were subjected to poorer black kids being bused in from the days when the county had more whites living there.

Oh, and have the black kids stopped picking on the Asian kids, making racial slurs and otherwise abusing them there?

Yes, my favorite -- are the predominantly black juries pulling OJ decisions, i.e., letting a black criminal go free because he's black, despite the fact that the victim is also black -- she's often your mother, your cousin, your sister, etc., but she's obviously invisible to these juries.

Ah, memories of Prince Georges' County.

46 posted on 06/23/2008 7:49:00 AM PDT by elk
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To: Rebelbase

TOUCHE!

I WAS going to comment on that in the post but was interrupted.


47 posted on 06/23/2008 7:50:48 AM PDT by Dick Bachert
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To: STONEWALLS
....I think whites and blacks of my generation got along better....whites are afraid of young blacks today because of gang violence.

This could be true. I would also ad that back then the Democrats and the people like Sharpton and Jackson were not constantly driving a wedge between the races. They actually have set back the dreams of MLK.

I worked with a lot of youngsters between 16-22 years old. The white kids resent the race card being used all the time. They would actually say it. It wasn't that they saw blacks as lesser than them, they just resented them using the race card and guilt to manipulate things.

48 posted on 06/23/2008 7:52:15 AM PDT by dforest (I had almost forgotten that McCain is the nominee. Too bad I was reminded.)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

Grew up in Montgomery County and never rode the bus to school. Walked in elementary and junior high and drove in high school.

And that leads to my idea. Ban high school students from driving to school and charge each student $20 a month to ride the bus. Yeah, people will piss an moan but just say it will reduced their carbon footprint and save mom earth and they’ll go for it.

Just think of the reduced traffic in the mornings!!


49 posted on 06/23/2008 7:53:58 AM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Barack Hussein Obama has no father. Only a sperm donor.)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

Here’s an idea. It fights the bugaboos of greenhouse emissions, saves fuel, fights childhood obesity, and makes everyone equal.

Set up 4 parking lots at the cardinal compass points from the schools at the distances noted above. Have the buses stop there and drop off all the kids. Let ALL the kids walk from there to school.

I am a genius. It’ll fix some of the clothing problems we have (you’re not going to walk to school in cold weather in some of the clothing I see the kids wear) (not to mention the ridiculous shoes). It makes sure that no kid is “privileged” over another, fulfilling another leftist mantra. And it’ll expose Mom and Dad’s princes and princesses to a bit of real life.


50 posted on 06/23/2008 8:09:00 AM PDT by RonF
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To: ishabibble
Obama = WALK AND FREEZE ‘08!

Drill here, drill now, pay less. To convince all of the moonbat rat voters, it's for the children!

51 posted on 06/23/2008 8:13:06 AM PDT by businessprofessor
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To: Dick Bachert
"A large part of the current social madness is the idiotic bussing "

Amen...it's about time this crap was ended. Giving a needed "hand" has turned into a "handout"...as usual (give a mouse a cookie, he'll want a glass of milk)

With hundreds of thousands of school busses running daily, we have to give up our transportation to needlessly transport people to schools for "equality"? All this time with a major Presidential candidate telling us we're "typical white people".

Beam me up Scottie.
52 posted on 06/23/2008 8:15:48 AM PDT by FrankR (OBAMA is the VAST WRIGHT-WING CONSPIRACY...)
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To: indylindy

I see it with my teenage son now. He is totally cynical about racism.


53 posted on 06/23/2008 8:38:58 AM PDT by mouse_35 (Vote Demorcrat for 2008! Lets do for Iraq what we did for Cambodia!!!)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

And while they are at it, think of all the greenhouse gases that we could avoid pumping into the atmosphere to our collective doom, if we stopped air conditioning the classrooms.

Didn’t the greatest teacher in history, Socrates, teach under a tree?


54 posted on 06/23/2008 8:40:17 AM PDT by mission9 (It ain't bragging if you can do it.)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner
oh man!

55 posted on 06/23/2008 8:40:29 AM PDT by ari-freedom (McCain must pick a conservative VP if he wants conservative support)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

That is a long way for today’s kids to walk without getting lost. I have seen today’s kids get lost just walking down the cookie aisle at Walmart. Today’s kids are pretty dumb, which is the object of our public school system,and that is to dumb them down enough to vote Democrat without hestitation. But if you are going to make them walk, they could make sure every kid is equipped with a cellphone that has GPS.


56 posted on 06/23/2008 8:46:23 AM PDT by Biblebelter
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner
Montgomery County, Maryland, those kids will need to pack some serious heat to defend themselves on the streets,

Montgomery County is expensive and liberal, but very safe. It has nearly a million people and had only 15 murders in 2006, a typical year. I wonder how such false impressions get started.

Do away with forced busing from one end of the county to the other to ensure integrated schools

It has never had forced bussing (unlike Prince George's county) as it never had de jure segregation. It is a very integrated county, most of it happening by economics, as I found when I moved there in 1972. People of like income, despite race, got along well in neighborhoods they could afford.

57 posted on 06/23/2008 8:51:15 AM PDT by Freee-dame
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

We need to tell Harry Reid and Nancy Peloisi that “women and children are hardest hit” by their party’s failure to end the moratorium against offshore drilling.


58 posted on 06/23/2008 8:59:05 AM PDT by NRG1973
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To: Freee-dame

Montgomery County is expensive and liberal, but very safe. It has nearly a million people and had only 15 murders in 2006, a typical year.

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What a contrast between Montgomery County, and DC or Baltimore City. I wonder if school kids are bussed in DC or are they forced to walk, and use sidewalks.


59 posted on 06/23/2008 9:24:42 AM PDT by maica (Peace is the Aftermath of Victory)
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To: CholeraJoe

You mean Playstation and Xbox.

Nintendo is so 90’s.


60 posted on 06/23/2008 9:32:24 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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