What would save us even more money would be a Metro Wide. MASTER SCHOOL CALENDAR I drove Special Needs busses for six years. There were plenty of days, that I was paid for Two to Six hours in a day to just transport one child to school. When the other schools, or school districts I was driving for didn't have school. Joan Thom Hawthorne
----- Original Message ----- From: "David Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Michael Atherton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 2:47 PM Subject: Re: [Mpls] Integrating Commuter and Public School Transit? > In the bad old days when I went to high school (1960-64) we rode the city > buses. We went to the Public Service (bus company) building and bought a > book of subsidized bus tickets. If I remember correctly the regular fare > was $.15 and each ticket cost $.05. It was affordable to everyone and it > was a prolonged lession in cultural diversity. We got to interact with > the kids from other neighborhoods who were generally different religions > and national and racial groups. Since we had to do this everyday, we had > to learn how to get along with each other (in today's speech: " be > culturally sensitive". We learned about diversity, in part, through this > experience because it was the only way to school and we faced the same > people every day for a prolonged period. > > At first there was mutual stereotyping, but how long could you keep that > up? You quickly learned about a person's character and how they behaved > as an individual. This face-to-face and "in your face" interaction went > miles to break down stereotypes. Not like the legislated approach of Mpls > public schools cultural diversity programs. " Be nice to the ________ > kids." > > Plus, the cost savings potential of this proposal makes it something to > take seriously. > > David Wilson > Loring Park > > > > > REMINDERS: > 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at > [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. > 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. > > For state and national discussions see: > http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html > For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract > ________________________________ > > Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn > E-Democracy > Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls > REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
