I think it's a societal change more than a public education one. Kids are just much more car-dependent these days, not usually through their own doing. Some parents have the sense that it's not safe to let their kids walk to school, both from "bad guys" and from traffic. And as more cars crowd in on the schools to provide "safety" for kids, the more kids get run over by other parents, usually those pulling away after dropping their own kids off.
I know the elementary school buses are free--in the case of Lapham/Marquette, kids who lived on the other side of East Wash from their school got bussed. I know there were some middle school kids who got bused to Marquette Middle; I don't know if they had to pay for it or not. There are also buses that leave from the high school and run specific routes; kids (or their parents) have to pay for these. >>> "Paul T. O'Leary" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 01/13/03 12:57PM >>> > From: "Mitchell Nussbaum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On the other hand, I never got a ride FROM school. I took the bus, or the > subway, or I walked. (Of course, when it snowed, I'd walk the whole > distance, barefoot, so I'd have something to tell my grandchildren...) You forgot to mention that it was all uphill... Both directions... I guess my more general question is, how has this happened? I either rode a school bus, walked or biked to school (okay, I went by X-C ski once). Anyone who was too far to walk could ride a school bus. And this was less than 25 years ago. Elementary schools were never more then six or eight blocks away. Junior High schools were never more than a mile away. So it was never really an issue until high school. Has that much changed? Are students further from their schools geographically now? Are school busses no longer funded? I've been out of touch with what's going on wrt public education I honestly don't know. --------------- Paul T. O'Leary Desktop Insurgent Madison, WI USA _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.danenet.org/mailman/listinfo/bikies _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.danenet.org/mailman/listinfo/bikies
