taken for a ride
In my suburban neighborhood, three different busses pick up kids and bring them to three different high schools. In the afternoon, those three drop them off. That is f*cked up. Don’t get me wrong, school choice is a fantastic idea. It’s just that promising to bus the students all over half the county is stupid. Kids should be assigned one bus to get them from one neighborhood to one school. Those who choose a different school should have to find their own way.
From my uninformed perspective, it seems there would be no shortage of bus drivers, the school district would have extra money to spend on getting rid of portables, and there would be an extra bus to tote a few kids to the rec center.
Tags: tampa, tax waste, transportation
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August 9th, 2005 at 7:09 pm
I totally agree with you. I hate the school choice idea. I also hate stupid bussing decisions before School Choice was implemented…
August 10th, 2005 at 10:03 am
And if they’d go back to sending kids in a neighborhood to the school in that neighborhood, that’d be good, too. The kids in my subdivision are bussed past the nearest elementary school (in Westchase) to an elementary school much farther away. Yes, class bias is alive and well in Citrus Park. It’s just one more reason I’m thankful I homeschool.
October 4th, 2005 at 10:34 am
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