Posted on 08/13/2024 9:33:35 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
They never charged me when riding the short bus.
School busses are a waste of taxpayer dollars unless you are in a very rural area. Parents should foot the bill if they can’t drive their kids to school or their kids can’t bike.
They don’t want to pay for the school bus ride? Whadda they think they are? Illegal aliens? Ukrainians? America’s don’t get things unless they pay!
I honestly did not know that there were states where students were charged to ride the bus to school. I guess it all depends on how much the school taxes are.
A local elementary school was built 3 miles outside of town because someone donated the land for a school to be built.
Great. Now the kids have to be bussed in. And parents that drive them in and out create traffic jams twice a day.
I live in a very remote community. Mostly retired folks. But those families with kids have a one hour bus ride each way every day.
My grandniece is fortunate in that her bus ride only takes about 10 minutes, each way. She lives only 2.5 miles from the school, but it would be too dangerous to walk or ride a bicycle. The roads here are narrow, with minimal shoulders, and speed limit most of the way is 55 mph.
Here in Oregon the school buses are “free”. Schools are paid for by federal and state funding, plus local property taxes.
I would hope they don’t charge property taxes there.
Zactly my first thought...
When I was growing up, you didn’t have to pay anything for public school beyond what taxes covered. (Of course, you brought or paid for your lunch.)
Now, parents are given lists of all kinds of supplies that they have to provide for the school year.
Where is all the money going?
What? School taxes aren’t enough?
Most of the school budgets is for perks and bennies and *administrative costs.*
Cut out the crap and there’s be plenty for the kids.
But nobody employed by the school wants to give up their cush retirement packages.
The state takes a huge chunk of the local property taxes and splits it between the rural districts (because you don’t want to make the big rural landowners pay their fair share) and the poor urban districts.
The Texas Supreme court ruled that local taxes were state money that had to be divided equally because the State Supreme Court justices are politicians that apparently don’t know the difference between local funds and state funds.
That’s crazy
Those SEC sized high school stadiums high dollar
If you home-school, bus passes are a lot cheaper.
It’s not a money issue, never is.
It’s a “lets spend the budget on CRT, cross dressers, illegals, & teacher raises” and cut traditional school services like teaching real subjects, music, sports, shop class and school busses, then blame the students and their parents when we raise their taxes again. If they object, then they pay double and we get to call them all racists.
EXACTLY!!!!!!
It’s the same old story everywhere and has been for years.
There’s nothing new under the sun.
Back in the 90’s I knew a former school superintendent of a small district and he and his wife who was a nurse at the school, got themselves and their friends high paying jobs for the last few years of their work career. This couple retired on $100,000 combined RETIREMENT income.
At that time mr. mm was working a regular decent paying job full time and supporting a family of 5 on 50K.
Meanwhile, they did the snowbird thing and supported their vacation home in FL.
And people wonder why school taxes are so high. Extortionate income for positions that could give 100K retirement to a couple.
An hour each way for 3 miles? Everyone driving 3 mph, are they?
The kids from town have to be bussed in. I don't live in town. In fact I live in a different county where it really does take 45 minutes from my area to a different school in my county. Add in multiple school bus stops and there ya have it. An hour each way.
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