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To: longfellowsmuse
what is a reasonable price to the taxpayer who has to provide food, clothes and shelter to their family and is already going to see increasing taxes and inflation.

So many times we have seen insane expenses associate with pensions, cadillac insurance coverage, extra admins, etc. $700 for hardware, figuring it is good for three years, $50/month connection ($600/year), those are decent numbers compared to what the private sector would pay for comparable. At $833/year divided by ten months of school at average 20 kids per bus, that comes to a little more than $4 head per month, or under a quarter a day.

If this was selected by the local board, it is less a problem for what the hard paying taxpayers put up than if it were a state or fed program.

The kid is stuck on the bus. He can certainly take out a good novel, if he can concentrate with all the noise on the bus. Some probably have their own private 3g connections. For others, it could be a trip to FR (for the older ones, due to occasionally salacious photos and material not suitable for youngsters)or Heritage.org or it could be to get a start on homework, which for many requires the Internet.

My first choice would be policies to greatly reduce the need or demand for public schools. Second choice is small neighborhood schools within walking distance for most. That said, when I compare this expenditure to the $100K plus that a broke school district (Rockford Dist. 205 in Illinois) spends on a Michelle Obama garden (we're in farm country ... take them to a REAL farm!), I am mildly impressed that they kept the expenditure for the year well under five figures.


20 posted on 01/11/2013 9:51:58 AM PST by Dr. Sivana ("C'est la vie" say the old folks, it goes to show you never can tell. -- Chuck Berry)
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To: Dr. Sivana

and the constant drip drip drip of tax payer costs is what has got our nation into trillions of dollars of debt. eventually all these things add up and turn into real money.

and if a school bus is too noisy to read a book why isn’t it too noisy to Facebook and tweet? if there is that much noise on the bus the issue isn’t boredom its a lack of discipline by whomever is in charge of that bus

umm money is money whether the feds or the local board is responsible from its departure from a paycheck...that being said the taxpayers have no one but themselves to blame for who they elect.

wifi on a school bus is a luxury placed on the back of taxpayers to keep kids from being brats and making the ride more enjoyable for the union contracted bus driver


21 posted on 01/11/2013 10:07:02 AM PST by longfellowsmuse (last of the living nomads)
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