[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Keeping in mind that this is Montgomery County, Maryland, those kids will need to pack some serious heat to defend themselves on the streets, many of which don't have any sidewalks, BTW.

Do away with forced busing from one end of the county to the other to ensure integrated schools, and the county wouldn't have this problem.

[ishabibble]

Obama = WALK AND FREEZE ‘08!

[BenLurkin]

Walked 2 miles to High School and back for four years in all kinds of weather

(It wasn’t uphill both ways though)

[Coffee200am]

What about in in the snow.....barefoot?

[JRios1968]

In our day, we walked (ALL TOGETHER NOW...)
5 miles
in the snow
uphill
BOTH WAYS!!!
and...
WE LIKED IT!
WE WERE GRATEFUL FOR IT!!!!!

[The_Victor]

Currently, elementary school students walk up to a mile, middle school students 1.5 miles and high school students two miles.

..... uphill,

..... both ways,

.....

[Psycho_Bunny]

Assuming Maryland issues bonds, I expect this is nothing more than a jaded attempt to guilt-extort school bond funds in an upcoming election.

[CholeraJoe]

BFD! Kids are too fat anyway from High-fructose corn syrup, super-size fries and sitting on their lazy butts playing Nintendo.

[cripplecreek]

I can see the problem for city kids. Rural kids and small town could stand the walk like I did.

[ClearCase_guy]

The Montgomery County school board could layoff some administrators, have the remainder work a little harder, and use the freed-up money for gas in order to save the little children's feet.

Or they could blame the stingy tax payers for the problem.

Funny how managing the money you have, is so very hard. And the cuts always seem to specifically hurt the vulnerable children. Why, it almost seems like the schools want to cause pain in order to justify additional levies against the community. Hmmmmmmmmmm.

[Schnucki]

Four Yorkshiremen

[Dick Bachert]

A BETTER idea would be to RETURN TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOLS that were the norm when I was a kid.

A large part of the current social madness is the idiotic bussing — at great cost to the citizens and the waste of fuels and consequent CO2 emissions (none of which is mentioned in the conversations surrounding the GLOBAL WARMING SCAM) of these kids to hell (your basic government school!) and back.

That we’ve TOLERATED that particular form of madness says more about US than it does about those who foisted it upon us.

But, of course, as every socialist, double-domed educrat knows, a BLACK KID is simply incapable of learning unless he or she is sitting next to a WHITE KID.

[wendy1946]

A fat kid in my neighborhood was a seriously rare thing; walking a mile and a half to school and back every day might have had something to do with it...

[dforest]

Most of us walked to school before forced integration, why we even rode bikes to school.

Part of the fun was walking to and from school. It was good exercise too.

It was a real honor to be a crossing guard at the corners.

Times have sure changed and the liberal answers have created problems that didn’t exist before.

[SouthTexas]

Never could convince my kids I walked for miles, uphill both way, in the snow.

They just didn’t buy into the concept of snow at all.

[Our man in washington]

I live in Montgomery County. It has a lot of sidewalks and a lot of busy streets. A child ten or up with common sense could handle walking through most of the County. I wouldn’t want the young kids out, though.

Then again, my philosophy of parenting is “if you let your kid going walking alone outside, you have a 1 in a 100,000 chance that he or she will be abducted by some freak. If you keep your child locked inside all the time, you have about a 90 percent chance he or she will grow up to be a fat dull person. Go with the odds.”

[randita]

Funny thing. I see buses bound to and from the high school half full. By junior year, a lot of kids are driving to school and taking several friends with them, so buses are not full by any means. At least that’s the case in our school district. Maybe they should do a better job of calculating how many kids will be taking the bus and drive smaller buses.

My kids used to walk the 1/4 mile to and from their school, but now the bus picks up kids near me due to safety concerns.

[Rebelbase]

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!

[VeniVidiVici]

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!!

[RonF]

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.

[mission9]

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?