http://nearwestendnews.net/2007/09/17/busing-your-children-to-another-school-not-anymore/ Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:38:23 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://nearwestendnews.net/2007/09/17/busing-your-children-to-another-school-not-anymore/comment-page-1/#comment-169 kory Mon, 17 Sep 2007 12:50:16 +0000 http://nearwestendnews.net/2007/09/17/busing-your-children-to-another-school-not-anymore/#comment-169 Wow. Well, there are other situations we had to consider due to our daughter's condition which we won't mention publicly, but thanks. Wow. Well, there are other situations we had to consider due to our daughter’s condition which we won’t mention publicly, but thanks.

]]> http://nearwestendnews.net/2007/09/17/busing-your-children-to-another-school-not-anymore/comment-page-1/#comment-167 Jonah_H Mon, 17 Sep 2007 11:59:13 +0000 http://nearwestendnews.net/2007/09/17/busing-your-children-to-another-school-not-anymore/#comment-167 Well Kory, I must be in one of my edgy moods, maybe I shouldn't open this bag of worms, but here goes! While you are saving the school system money, you and all the other folks that decide the bus is not for them are hurting the environment. It would be way cheaper for everyone if all the kids rode the bus. (Am I allowed to say this since I drive my daughter to school and pick her up? Call me a hypocrate, but bus is not an option for us). Plus, student pick up is a huge time-sucker. You don't have to go through the regular carpool line at Munford like the rest of us, but thanks to 1. the elimination of the buses and 2. the vast number of people who decide "the bus is not for their kids" I have to wait about 20 minutes to collect my child after school, sitting in my car with my restless just turned 3-year-old boy. It is a bad system for many many reasons -- the two most important being that people leave thier cars running, and then edge forward inches at a time and that it isn't safe and impedes traffic. Traffic is backed up on Westmoreland all the way to Cary, and sometimes on Cary Street Road as well. I'm just praying no one gets hit while blocking traffic sitting at a standstill in the middle of the road. Well Kory, I must be in one of my edgy moods, maybe I shouldn’t open this bag of worms, but here goes!
While you are saving the school system money, you and all the other folks that decide the bus is not for them are hurting the environment. It would be way cheaper for everyone if all the kids rode the bus. (Am I allowed to say this since I drive my daughter to school and pick her up? Call me a hypocrate, but bus is not an option for us). Plus, student pick up is a huge time-sucker. You don’t have to go through the regular carpool line at Munford like the rest of us, but thanks to
1. the elimination of the buses and
2. the vast number of people who decide “the bus is not for their kids” I have to wait about 20 minutes to collect my child after school, sitting in my car with my restless just turned 3-year-old boy. It is a bad system for many many reasons — the two most important being that people leave thier cars running, and then edge forward inches at a time and that it isn’t safe and impedes traffic. Traffic is backed up on Westmoreland all the way to Cary, and sometimes on Cary Street Road as well. I’m just praying no one gets hit while blocking traffic sitting at a standstill in the middle of the road.

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