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.
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.
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.
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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.
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