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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“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.
The horror!
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!
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
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.
TOUCHE!
I WAS going to comment on that in the post but was interrupted.
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.
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!!
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.
Drill here, drill now, pay less. To convince all of the moonbat rat voters, it's for the children!
I see it with my teenage son now. He is totally cynical about racism.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
You mean Playstation and Xbox.
Nintendo is so 90’s.
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