[Vision2020] school funding

[Kai Eiselein]

Let me tell you what, a mile on crutches in no picnic. I spent a year on the damn things as a 14-15 year-old. I can't imagine what it would be like to have to do that in a wheelchair, because I had a ride for the time I was in one.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jennifer Ingalls 
  To: 'Donovan Arnold' ; vision2020 at moscow.com 
  Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 5:52 PM
  Subject: Re: [Vision2020] school funding


  Why shouldn't parents of special needs kids have to pay if parents of "normal" kids have to pay in your scenario? Here's the thing . . . if I live two miles out of town, I have no problem making my kid walk . . . unless he can't. But I can't afford to pay for a whole bus in case all those parents of walking-able kids decide not to buy into the bus program. Meaning no funds for a bus meaning no bus. That's why all tax payers-not just those who have kids-pay for busses, school lunches for lower-income families, textbooks, resource rooms, and all the other things that public schools provide. 

   

  Jennifer L. Ingalls


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  From: Donovan Arnold [mailto:donovanjarnold2005 at yahoo.com] 
  Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 3:48 PM
  To: vision2020 at moscow.com; Jennifer Ingalls
  Subject: Re: [Vision2020] school funding

   

        Jennifer,

         

        I think special needs is a different story. It is not a matter of personal responsibility, but a matter of chance that a parent be given an angel. Parents of children with special needs should not pay anymore than any other parent of a non-special needs child. But I disagree that walking a mile or two to school is child abuse. In fact, I bet the bulging numbers of obese children would decline if they went for a walk the days a year. Maybe we can even make it a required job duty of obese gym teachers to escort them along the way. 

         

        But yes, I think it is fair for parents to decide what they think is safe and cost effective transportation for children. I don't understand why the taxpayer has to pay $180,000 for big yellow polluting bus to go two miles as the most cost effect means to transport anyone anywhere. 

         

        Perhaps maybe having the parents pay for a public bus ticket, like they do in Europe. Or, collectively hire a transportation company to do it, and the taxpayer splits the cost. Or maybe, they can take the time out of their own day to drive their own children. 

         

        Best Regards,

         

        Donovan

         



        --- On Fri, 3/20/09, Jennifer Ingalls <jennifer at inlandradio.com> wrote:


          From: Jennifer Ingalls <jennifer at inlandradio.com>
          Subject: Re: [Vision2020] school funding
          To: "'Donovan Arnold'" <donovanjarnold2005 at yahoo.com>, vision2020 at moscow.com
          Date: Friday, March 20, 2009, 5:20 PM

           . . . oh, and for that matter, instead of paying for a bus, why not just let the child walk to school? If I could get enough other parents to say no to the bus, too, we just won't have to buy one. Except that one kid who is in a wheelchair . . . I guess he needs a bus. Oh well, we'll just let his parents worry about that, huh?

           

          Jennifer L. Ingalls


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