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.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
From the article: “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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Is this the policy that is actually in force now?
Jerry Weast was formerly the superintendant of Guilford County Schools, in NC, where I am. He presided over the foisting of consolidation on the voters, combining city schools in Greensboro and High Point with county schools, all under the guise of "saving money" by reducing redundant administration, facilities, etcetera. It passed. Nothing was ever eliminated at the administrative level. But, busing was expanded. High Point's schools bore the brunt, as well as the county schools in the prosperous northwest district. It never was about cost reduction, it was about skin color bean counting. So, don't count on Weast to ever see the foolhardiness of busing during a fuel price crisis.
My post at #61 does not make any sense, because I pasted the wrong quote. I meant to paste the details from the article about how far away from their schools children must live before they are included in the bus program.
One mile for elementary
One and a half miles for middle school
Two miles for high school
“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.”
....yes, they have....go to a student Union on any college campus and you can see the racial polarization reflected in how the kids self-segregate when they sit down to eat....and this is 40 years after King...
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feet? you had FEET?
Neighborhood schools with volunteer parents who will walk with kids might be a great solution. I never rode a bus anywhere we lived except when we lived in a rural area and were many miles from school. Kids would be less fat too.
But, I understand the dangerous part in some parts of the country.
susie
You didn’t do it naked? ;)
susie
Let me tell you from experience-race relations were MUCH worse forty years ago.Riots were breaking out nearly daily.Schools were battlegrounds.Both whites and blacks were in dire fear of one another.
Are things good now.NO,of course not.Still lots of distrust and animosity on both sides.Yet I lived through the 1964-1970 period.Those were some frightening times!
I never had those problems here in Indy. I would say race relations are worse now.
I suppose it depended on where you lived at the time. I believe there was a time in the 80’s where people were getting beyond race. It is always kept refueled by the Democrats.
This election cycle has proved that. People are as equal as they believe themselves to be. The only people, doesn’t matter what race, that see themselves as second class citizens are those that use the argument to create guilt in others in order to gain something.
Those are some great photos on your page. You are good!
Thank you. I got a great shot of a huge spider this weekend, didn’t know she had a *mate* right there. Spider love! :)
susie
You are quite right.A lot did depend on where you lived at the time and I grew up in the hyper charged San Francisco Bay Area.Come to think of it,I can’t recall one riot or racial disturbance in Indiana throughout the Sixties.
The hate was ubiquitous on both sides.Yet around 1967,the blacks got the upper hand and you rarely saw white mobs confronting blacks around here.The last major”white riot”around here was at the George Wallace Rally in October,1968 where blacks were attacked by white workers.Yet the whole flurry was started by white Leftists throwing chairs at the pro Wallace whites!
Now the drama is more black-Asian or black-Mexican.Whites are sort of irrelevant around here.They just mind their own business for the most part.A black man can go just about anywhere around here without the “whats THAT n-—— doing here”look from whites.Not at all like that thirty years ago.
Healthier in some ways,worse in others.
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
Absolutely. The kids get more exercise, and I don't have to pay higher property taxes for bus fuel. It's a win-win!
Ah, come on, you’re totally missing the point of the post by taking that one bit out of its context.
THE LEFT WANTS US _ALL_ TO WALK.
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