[muawiyah]

In an ideal world the little girl's mother would have been allowed by the school authorities to TRANSFER her to a different school the very first time she made a request.

Isn't the point here that the principals and teachers at that school had denied a transfer request several times before electing to begin punishing the child?

[doc30]

I'm a Pinellas County local. two years ago, they started this 'school choice' program where parents get to pick the kid's schools. It's a part of desegregation. The school system has so many requests to change schools that, once you get into a school, they don't want you to change. The transfer requests in this case were probably relegated to the school choice system and systematically denied.

This is also the same scholl board that, through school choice, tripled the bussing costs of kids. Instead of one bus picking up kids at one stop, you can have up to 5 busses picking kids up from the same location, but to different schools.

This is the same schoolboard that, in the aftermath of several student deaths at school bus stops, has done nothing. They have routes where 5 year old students have to cross 6 lane highways to get to their bus, in direct violation of their own written rules. Like I said, several kids have been hit and killed becasue of the school boards's complete contempt for parents and students in this county.