[Dawgreg]

What are screwell taxes for???? Heard sometime back if you cut out the middle administrative jobs in some of these screwell districts the savings would be more than enough to keep services going.

[STONEWALLS]

....it’s not safe for a child to walk to school now days...I feel sad for the kids and their worried parents.

[The Anti-One]

Well I suppose there is a silver lining to o-bomb-a-nation's double digit unemployment rates, quadrupling national debt, and coming destruction of the US Dollar. Now parents will have to do their jobs and teach their children themselves. Of course this now means that all those bureaucrats nesting in the communist camps of Marxist indoctrination most people call public schools will now have to pay the price for supporting "The One" by clearing out their lockers and joining those other unemployed individuals at the unemployment centers around the nation.

Ohhhhh cry me a river. LOL

[AD from SpringBay]

They should cut some administrators - the great and golden finale of the public school career track.

[jimt]

When I read an article like this I see red.

Houston ISD has 3.4 non-teaching employees for every classroom teacher. But they can't find the money for busses ?

How about firing some of those non-teaching parasites and hiring some bus drivers ? Oh, wait, can't do that. Those people are busy inventing new reports for teachers to fill out, conducting inservices on teaching techniques that have been proven worthless, like English as a second language, or "studying" new ways to make non-disciplinary methods functional.

And of course, even though they're not classroom teachers, they are members of the union, who fights to keep the parasites where they are.

[Brookhaven]

Streets with no sidewalks, we had this problem.

To save money the county didn’t put in sidewalks when they widened or installed new roads. Now we have a ton of roads with no sidewalks.

If they had put in sidewalks, I wouldn’t have had a problem with my kids walking to shcool, but how the heck are they supposed to walk to shcool when there is noplace to walk.

Not putting in sidewalks is an area where they were penny wise and dollar foolish.

[Responsibility2nd]

And yet....

I’m sure they will find plenty of school buses to take football players and band members to 15 million dollar high school football stadiums every Friday night.

Just sayin’....

[Marty62]

It seems every week Houston has some perv trying to get some poor little child going to or from school. Now with an even larger target rich environment..the pervs may be more successful. I wonder if there will be stories of parents having nervous breakdowns worrying about their children.

[zeugma]

Cry me a freaking river.

[Clemenza]

I never could understand why, during the short period I lived in Bayonne, there were actually yellow school buses taking the kids to public school. Bayonne is NOT that large of a town geographically, and giving the kids bus-passes to the Boulevard bus line or the light rail would be a good alternative.

I can understand the use of buses in rural areas where kids are spread out. Even in those cases, can't you drive your own kids?

[dalereed]

eliminate all school busses!

When I went to school they didn’t have such things, you either walked or rode a bicycle.